DHARMSALA, India (AP) — A Tibetan monk who worked on 2008 documentary film critical of China’s rule in the Himalayan region said he escaped Chinese police custody in 2012 and fled to India last week ...
There are no flowers or memorials to mark the spot where Tsewang Norbu died. On Aug. 15, the 29-year-old Tibetan monk living in the remote Chinese outpost of Tawu gulped down kerosene, bathed his body ...
DHARAMSHALA, India—For Jamyang Monlam, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk in Tibet, time was running out. He longed to meet the Dalai Lama, the 89-year-old religious leader revered by Tibetans but viewed by ...
The Tibetan National Martyrs’ Memorial is a black obelisk in Dharamsala, the Indian hill station that serves as the headquarters of exiled Tibetans who have fled their Chinese-ruled homeland. Usually ...