Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center, Darjeeling
A somewhat sad anniversary of sorts passed by recently with the 50th year of the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center being marked, ironically, on October 1st. In 1959, months after the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet for what has become a life in exile, the Refugee Self Help Center was started. At the time, [...]
Faces of Tibet
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising, 3000 Tibetans, friends and supporters took to the streets of downtown Taipei on Saturday afternoon to show their hope and fears for the future, and remind the world of the ongoing oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese communist government. Below you can see some of [...]
Roof of the World
In the last post, we saw a number of photos of the Dalai Lama visiting a Buddhist temple in Bodhgaya, India. So this seems as good a time as any to take a visit to his homeland, Tibet.
At the bottom of the post under my signature, you can click on the slideshow link to [...]
Taking Tea with the Dalai Lama
After writing yesterdays post about Foguangshan, I decided to go through some of my old film archives and dig up some older images related to Buddhism.
In 2002-2003 I found myself in India for the third time, and Bodhgaya for the second. Bodhgaya is a small town in the state of Bihar that is the [...]
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