Bike tour 2022: Kalsang Dolma from Casa del Tibet

Saturday 8 Oct: Casa del Tibet After my brief explanation of the #cyclingfortibet campaign, I asked 86-year-old Kalsang Dolma to tell us about her flight across the Himalayas in 1959. In the spring of that year, Tibetans rebelled against the Chinese. What began as a peaceful protest against repressive Chinese policies soon degenerated [...]

Bike tour 2022: Casa del Tibet in Barcelona

Saturday, Oct 8: Casa del Tibet in BarcelonaVen. Thubten Wangchen, the director of Fundación Casa del Tibet in Barcelona, had advised me to come to Tibet House on Saturday from 15:30. Some people from the Barcelona Tibetan community would be at Casa del Tibet then. At 4pm, a lecture for women began in which I was allowed to participate. Thubten himself would be there [...]

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