Tag: Tibet
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My talk on Tibetan Non-Violent Resistance at the Symposium on Non-Violence held in Germany
The video of the talk can be viewed here The talk was delivered on September 19 this year at Darmstad in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lech Welesa, former President of Poland and leader of Solidarnosch movement, Rebecca Johnson, founding president of International Campaign for abolition of nuclear weapons (ICAN), recipient…
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My TED x Talk on Leading Freedom in Exile
58 years ago, on March 31st, 1959, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, reached India with approximately 80,000 Tibetans, who had known no home but their own. It was an escape from persecution and oppression from our adversary; Rehabilitation in India started with insurmountable challenge. My father once told me a story that perfectly sums up…
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Tenzin Palkyi on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment
Palkyi’s ground-breaking talk on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment The talk was delivered at the first ever Tibetan Women’s Empowerment Conference- October 2016 organized by RTWA NYNJ Good Afternoon everyone. First of all, I want to start by thanking the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of New York and New Jersey for organizing this very…
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Reproductive governance in the Tibetan community in exile- Discrepancies and digressions
This piece originally appeared in December 2015 edition of hystericalfeminisms.com REPRODUCTIVE GOVERNANCE IN THE TIBETAN COMMUNITY IN EXILE — DISCREPANCIES AND DIGRESSIONS Introduction – Reproductive Governance This paper analyzes reproductive governance in public policy and how it applies to the exile Tibetan discourse surrounding women’s reproductive responsibilities. Drawing heavily on Lynn Morgan and Elizabeth Robert’s…
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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 from…
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Tibetan Women: Devotedly Defiant
Beijing, September 1995: nine exiled Tibetan women staged a silent protest at the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing. The essay titled ‘Tibetan Women: Devotedly Defiant’ featured in the book ‘A Force Such As the World Has Never Known,’ which is an anthology of essays by 30 women authors, published in November…
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China’s Fear Remains Even After Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s Death
Tibetans across the world were devastated by the news of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s death in a Chinese prison on July 12 this year. The news opened fresh wounds for Tibetans who called his death a protracted political murder. Tibetans in Tibet braved gunshot wounds to protest against his death. A series of actions continue to…
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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 to…
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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,…
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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 Tibetan…
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