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1959 ARC Identifier 1633560 / Local Identifier 263.1021. This film briefly covers some of the history of Tibet and its religious customs, and then goes on to examine its occupation by China in 1950 and India’s resulting alliance with Tibet against the Communists. National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981)

“Thirty Alphabets” is a recent Tibetan music video, popular both inside and outside Tibet, that stresses the importance of learning your own language. The chorus notes “…although it is good to know other languages, it is a shame to forget your own.”

Please watch and listen to ‘Thirty Alphabets’ by Kelsang Tenzin, a very powerful and beautiful song.
The full lyrics of ‘Thirty Alphabets’ can be read HERE in Tibetan, English, French and Spanish.

Check out the video and the website showing how Tibetans in Tibet are embracing a home grown campaign to preserve Tibetan identity. This video from Dhondup Wangchen, director of Leaving Fear Behind, who is serving lengthy prison sentences for recording common Tibetan’s views on Tibet as well as their passion for their culture and identity. This website includes different activities taken place inside Tibet as well as solidarity movement mirroring the campaigns from inside Tibet: The Lhakar Movement.

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The Dalai Lama Receives Mother Teresa Award11/19/2010 - Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was given the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice in New Delhi on Thursday. He is honored for his work promoting the welfare of the Tibetan people.

An estimated 80,000 Tibetans along with the Dalai Lama arrived in India in 1959 after an unsuccessful uprising against Chinese rule.

[The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual Leader]:
“I am one of the admirers of late Mother Teresa. I met (her), I think, thrice. In any way, I really admire her work and her spirit.”

Mother Teresa became an Indian citizen in 1948 and lived in Kolkata City. She was popularly known as the “Saint of the Gutter” for her extraordinary love and dedication to poor, homeless and diseased persons.

Mother Teresa died in September 1997 at the age of 87.

Source - NTDTV