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Tibetan Youth is Detained After Staging Solo Protest in Lithang

Police in southwestern China’s Sichuan province detained a young Tibetan man this week after he launched a brief protest in a public square, calling out for Tibetan freedom and the return of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, sources said.

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Tibet is the only one to quench Asia’s thirst for water: Sikyong

New Delhi — Addressing a conference in New Delhi, focusing the rivers that flow into the sub-continent from Tibet, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay said "the lives of billions of people living in Asia are at risk as China builds large scale damming of the rivers in Tibet" which provide fresh water to downstream Asian nations.

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Celebration of the 30th anniversary of Kalachakra in Rikon

tibetswiss.ch, 01.08.2015 - Organized by the Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (TGSL) on 31.07.2015 in the Tibet Institute the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Kalachakra in 1985 in Rikon in 1985, took place.

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Rally in front of UN

tibetswiss.ch, 01.08.2015 - Organised by the TGSL, VTJE and TFOS, a rally was held on 07.31.2015 with over 350 participants in Geneva at the UN headquarters.

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Tibetans took to the street of Zürich

Yesterday, on 17th July, About 800 people in Switzerland staged a protest in front of the Chinese consulate.

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Tibet after the Dalai Lama

As the the 14th Dalai Lama, who has been in exile in India since 1959, marked his 80th birthday on July 6, Tibet’s future looks more uncertain than ever. During his reign, the current Dalai Lama has seen his homeland — the world’s largest and highest plateau — lose its independence to China. Once he dies, China is likely to instal a puppet as his successor, potentially eroding the institution. source: gulfnews.com

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Clarifying His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Stand on Dolgyal/Shugden

On 7th July, the final day of official celebrations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday in Orange County, California, representatives of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL) invited the International Shugden Community (ISC) to meet and explain what they are accusing His Holiness of lying about.

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