Dalai Lama – Scholar. Activist. Feminist | Standing for Tibet, Social Justice, and our Shared Planet

Is 2025 the Beginning or the End?

Unlike the onset of 2020, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic from which we eventually recovered, 2025 presents a climate emergency with no obvious turning point. To shift this trajectory, we must undergo a profound transformation of human consciousness. We must unite as a global community, embracing the teaching of “oneness of humanity,” as His Holiness the Dalai Lama often emphasizes.

An Ode and a Dedication: For His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 88th Birthday

Today, it fills my heart with immeasurable joy and humility to share that I have authored a dissertation that explores the Dalai Lama’s discourse on human values, particularly during a critical moment in human history – the Covid-19 pandemic, set against the canvas of the existential threat of climate crisis. Through this scholarly pursuit, I present a unique communication perspective on the significant scientific and political conversations of our times. In doing so, my aspiration is to pave the way for interdisciplinary research that converges at the crossroads of human consciousness, communication, culture, digital mediation, and global environmental challenges

Rethink Sino-Tibet policy for India’s survival, conference panelists say

This article originally appeared in Phayul.com on December 20, 2010. http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=28791 The conference on ‘Rethinking India’s Sino-Tibet’ policy affirmed that its time India look them (China) in the eye on Tibet issue. New Delhi- The world’s largest democracy may be basking in the incontrovertible feat achieved in its 63 years of independence: its transition fromContinue reading “Rethink Sino-Tibet policy for India’s survival, conference panelists say”

Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism

Decoding Feminism: The general notion of feminism in the Tibetan community is that it is a western import. It is therefore scoffed at as “white feminism” – one that is unwelcome and struggling to find its footing on the Asian turf. In the general Tibetan discourse, feminism is seen as women coming together toContinue reading “Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism”

Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

༄༅། ས་སྟེང་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་བདག་ཉིད། འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་དེད་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ། བོད་མི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་མགོན་སྐྱབས། བདག་གི་ཚེ་སྲོག་ལས་ཀྱང་རྩ་ཆེ་བ། ༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཚེ་བསྐལ་བརྒྱར་བརྟན་ཅིང་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པའི་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་སྨོན་ལམ་དང། རང་ངོས་ནས་མགོན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་བསྒྲུབ་རྒྱུར་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པ་ཆེན་པོས་དམ་བཅའ་བརྟན་པོ་ཡོད།། His Holiness the Dalai Lama Global Icon of Peace Ocean of Wisdom Supreme Symbol of Tibetan Identity and Unity The breath of my life May you live for a hundred eons While I pledge to make efforts to fulfill your wishes and aspirations May I have the strength,Continue reading “Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet”

TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?

Tenzin Dhardon Sharling opens new ways to Tibetan women. Text: Jaana-Mirjam Mustavuori Photos: Johanna Myllymäki Source: VOI HYVIN (Finland’s lifestyle magazine) Interview date: November 6, 2011 Place: Helsinki, Finland Translation from Finnish to English: Erja Sini-Kaarina Varis, edited by Albion M. Butters All expectations dissolve in an instant when I meet this speaker of TibetanContinue reading “TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?”