Kusho la - our eternal volunteer - stuffed too many envelopes today that he got a headache. He gets these kind of headaches quite frequently - especially when he spends long hours looking at paper. He also says that his blood gets hot following these headaches. His eyes get terribly bloodshot, like the...

A typical day at the SFT headquarters office in New York City…Lhadon’s email account is often full of messages with virus-riden attachments, often sent by people who disagree with our work…Han’s managing a big mailing of thank you notes and appeals to donors, with volunteers stuffing...

March 11th will be marked by the debut collection of Sonam Yeshi at Tibet House in New York City. She will unveil her 2005 Spring Collection, a union of traditional Tibetan and young wearable urban designs. Yeshi grew up in India in a community of Tibetans in exile. She came to New York to pursue apparel...

Lhadon was in fine form, as always, acting as M.C. for most of the March 10th activities, both at Dag Hamerskold park near the U.N., and at the Chinese Consulate. With numb hands, and hoarse voice, she took a moment to be interviewed for the blog- click on the link below to listen!

I am blogging live from across the street at the chinese consulate. my fingers are very very cold! below is a clip from a great speech given by Han. i also recorded a great interview with lhadon that should appear here soon! Update: the full text of Han’s speech has been posted on Phayul.com

Sonam Wangdu-la, SFT’s resident monk, is known to most simply as “kusho-la”, a term of respect and endearment. After working his construction job each day (yes, monks, especially those in the U.S. work too!), he comes to the SFT office to volunteer and raise our spirits up with his...

Remember back in December, when this was our chief concern: “Two years ago, Buddhist monk and teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was arrested by Chinese authorities and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Time is running out for Tenzin - he could be executed by the Chinese government at...