30 years ago: Panchen Rinpoche comes to Australia #1 of 2 blogs When we first heard, improbably, that the Panchen Lama was coming to Australia, we didn’t really know what to do. It was 30 years ago, early 1986, and we were a small group, calling ourselves the Tibet Information Service (TIS), based largely in just […]
Month: February 2016
PANCHEN RINPOCHE MEETS AUSSIE PASTORALISTS
THE PANCHEN LAMA IN AUSTRALIA #2 of two blogs on the 30TH anniversary of the Panchen Lama’s 1986 tour of Australian sheep ranches, with time for a phone call from the Dalai Lama. When the Panchen Lama arrived in Australia, as guest of the Australian Parliament, he was, on paper, just one of a large […]
GLOBAL AGREEMENT ON WHAT DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: FUTURE IMPACTS ON TIBET #1 in a blog series of 3 Around the world, everyone was relieved that the negotiations in Paris in December 2015 finally produced agreement on what, as a planet sharing a common fate, we can do to mitigate rapid climate warming. After decades […]
THE GLOBAL CARBON MARKET CONTEMPLATES INVESTING IN TIBET: A GUIDE TO THE NEW JARGON #2 in a blog series of 3 If the world arrives in Tibet, announcing corporate investment in carbon capture on the Tibetan Plateau, it will arrive wrapped in jargon. We might soon find we need to learn that jargon, and […]
CHINA’S PLAN TO SAVE TIBETANS FROM TIBET #3 in a blog series of 3 The world now has a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At a UN session in September 2015, all governments, including China, formally adopted these SDGs as their target for improving the quality of all human lives. How do these […]