Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Background SEE Learning
Dalai Lama - Emory University collaboration The Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning (SEE Learning®) education programme is the culmination of an academic collaboration that began in 1998 between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It offers a universal, non-sectarian and science-based approach to the ethical development of the whole child in the [...]
Project 2025: Compassion Rising Tour for Ukraine!
In honour of the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday! On 6 July, the Dalai Lama celebrates his birthday. Ninety years filled with compassion, kindness and resilience! The global Tibetan community celebrates his birthday, not just on 6 July, but all year round. Our partner organisation International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) launched the 'Compassion Rising World Tour [...] earlier this year.
Bicycle tour 2022: cyclists' campsite La Patte d'Oie
Thursday 25 Aug: Camping La Patte d'Oie - 45500 Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire Thursday night I stayed at Camping La Patte d'Oie, a campsite exclusively for two-wheelers and hikers! The facilities are exceptionally good: a small kitchen with microwave, a fridge stocked with soft drinks, beer and wine, a comfortable sitting and dining area, books and games, very good sanitary installation and [...]
Around Belgium 2020/21: Proceeds #ReachOutforStreetNurses
1,257 kilometres walked, 11,097 altimeters climbed and 7,600 euros donated to Street Nurses ASBL at the end of July
Shatsa - Language-savvy readers-to-be
Shatsa was founded in 2019 by a group of young people from the Tibetan Sonamling settlement in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas). The five original founders are now continuing the project, with the noble aim of keeping their language and traditions alive. In Tibet itself, Chinese occupation has stilted their culture, including language and authentic religious rituals, [...]
Brief history Tashi Lhunpo monastery
Where is the Panchen Lama? We write 'normally' because in 1995, the Chinese kidnapped six-year-old Gedun Choekyi Nyima (1989 - ), who was designated the 11th Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama after the death of his predecessor. Since then, he has been without a trace and China installed a self-appointed Panchen Lama in Tibet Read more [...]
China's Tibet policy in a nutshell
Let us stop idly watching all this suffering. For now, the survival of Tibetan culture lies in the hands of the diaspora. While waiting for their homeland to improve, help them preserve their culture. China, which has been illegally occupying Tibet since 1950, has been trying to eliminate ethnic minorities with identities other than [...]
Hiking for Street Nurses 2021: Knee pain? Tip for backpackers
June 16: Pay attention to your foot landing with knee pain! After about two weeks of walking, I started feeling an impeding, sometimes stabbing pain in my right knee. After resting, it was slightly better each time, but the pain reappeared more and more quickly. In the hilly heath near Maasmechelen, I noticed that the pain disappeared at [...]
