Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Interesting talks on Tibet
Jānis Mārtiņš Skuja and Ģirts Lapiņš 3 August: talks on Tibet with MPs and local councillors in Riga Jānis Mārtiņš Skuja of the 'Latvia for Tibet' association arranged two important appointments for me in Riga. In the morning, we sat with MP Juris Viļums, secretary of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and also leader [...]
Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Vilnius Tibet Support Group
18 August: Vilnius Tibet Support Group Monday evening at 7pm I had arranged to meet Robertas and his friends from the Vilnius Tibet support group. He couldn't have chosen a more symbolic meeting place: Tibet Square in the heart of the old town. This square is in the territory of the 'Free Republic of Uzupis', a [...]
Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Tenzin Tibet House in Nijmegen
7 July - Tenzin Tibet Huis in Nijmegen On Monday afternoon, I passed by the Tibetan shop 'Tenzin Tibet Huis' in Nijmegen for the second time. They sell beautiful Tibetan, Indian and other spiritual gadgets, from meditation cushions to singing bowls, figurines, books, tankas and mantras, and cool clothing. Definitely a must for spiritual seekers or people who want to [...]
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 [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Tibetan shop in Nijmegen
Looking for authentic Tibetan items? Then visit Tenzin Tibet House in Nijmegen.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Bike ride with Tibetan community through Amsterdam
10 May: cycling for solidarity with Tibet ICT Europe Director Wangpo Thetong and DawaTsering, the president of the Tibetan community Netherlands, had called on their supporters to come to Dam Square by bike by 11am today to join me on a bike ride through the city centre.I was curious to see how many Tibetans would turn up. That [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Tibetan Sunday school Amsterdam
8 May: Visit Tibetan School Amsterdam Sunday I visited the Tibetan Gangjong Rigzod School in Osdorp, Amsterdam Nieuw West, together with ICT director Wangpo Tethong and volunteer Yeshe Gelek. Dawa Tsering and Karma Ngawang, president and vice-president respectively of the Tibetan community in the Netherlands, welcomed us warmly with a cup of steaming Tibetan butter tea. After getting acquainted, we visited the six classes of [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: 'Cycling for Tibet' kick-off day in Utrecht
The Tibetan community in Utrecht welcomed me warmly and the #cyclingforTibet tour of the Netherlands got off to a traditional start.
Our next fundraising campaign: #REACHOUTFORTIBET !
In mid-March 2022, I headed to Amsterdam for a first meeting with the staff of International Campaign for Tibet Europe
