Tibet Relief Fund, supporting Tibetans since 1959. Tibet Relief Fund works with Tibetans in India, Nepal and inside Tibet funding programmes to provide healthcare and education. Tibet Relief Fund was founded in 1959 to help Tibetan communities in need. In addition we run a sponsorship. Programme for nearly 1,000.

In Of People and Places. The Re-transformation of Samdhong Rinpoche. The Re-transformation of Samdhong Rinpoche. But this blog piece is about another transformation, rather re-transformation i. the person of Samdhong Rinpoche. I have not had the privilege of being a student of Rinpoche, but many of my friends and colleagues have, and they are all bonded by their common reverence to him. In Of People and Places.

News and Views on Tibet in America and beyond. Sunday, July 19, 2015. Chinese authorities have refused to release the body of a Tibetan lama who died in a Chinese prison, prompting a sit-in outside the prison by more than 100 Tibetans, a pro-Tibet rights group said Wednesday. Calls to the prison were unanswered Wednesday.

Cycle Tibet - Lhasa to Kathmandu. Note the road at the bottom right going up to Everest Basecamp. It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.