Tibetans don’t see China as enemy: Dalai Lama
May 12, 2017Lalit Mohan, Tribune News Service Dharamsala, May 10: “Tibetans don’t see China as enemy but as a friend. We have not gathered here against China but for truth and justice. We consider China as our friend and strongly believe in principle of give and take and mutual benefit,” said the read more →
Tibet, China will move beyond mistrust, says Dalai Lama
May 12, 2017The Statesman/ANN DHARAMSALA (The Statesman/ANN News Desk) – The Dalai Lama hopes relations between Tibet and China can move past mistrust. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said he hoped that relations with China would move beyond mistrust as he reiterated his commitment to resolving the issue of read more →
‘Skeleton God’: Exorcising Demons in Tibet
May 11, 2017By Jonathan DeHart, Mysterious murders, corruption, and the ghosts of history haunt the fictional Tibetan town of Yangkar. Media coverage of Tibet tends to be bleak, from the Chinese government mounting security cameras around the childhood home of the current Dalai Lama to Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to read more →
U.S. lawmakers not backing down on human rights for Tibet, Pelosi says
May 11, 2017By Douglas Busvine, Reuters, 10 May 2017 Top U.S. lawmakers delivered a blunt message to China on Wednesday that they would not relent in their campaign to protect human rights in Tibet, calling for legislative and trade steps to press home their point. Nancy Pelosi, leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation read more →
US committed to Tibetan cause: Pelosi tells Dalai Lama
May 10, 2017The Outlook, 10 May 2017 Washington/dharamshala, May 10 Top Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi, who met the Dalai Lama, has affirmed US’ commitment to the Tibetan people, their faith, culture and language. Pelosi along with a bipartisan delegation met the 81- year-old Tibetan spiritual leader yesterday in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. read more →
US reps, Dalai Lama take aim at China sore spot Tibet
May 10, 2017By Fox News, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi greets Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. A group from US Congress is taking aim at one of China’s sore spots, Tibet, during a meeting in India read more →
U.S. lawmakers visit Dalai Lama, highlight situation in Tibet
May 9, 2017By Douglas Busvine, DHARAMSALA, India U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in Dharamsala, India May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Douglas Busvine A U.S. Congressional delegation visited the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in India on Tuesday, seeking to draw world attention to read more →
Fred Frederikse: ‘Better to die a good death’
May 9, 2017Dr Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile By Fred Frederikse, Wanganui Chronicle 9 May 2017 Millisphere, noun. A “sphere of interest” of roughly one-thousandth of the world’s population. Around 7 million people, but anywhere between 3.5 and 14 million will do. A lens through which to study human read more →
To Assuage India, China Offered – Briefly – To Rename $46 Billion Corridor
May 9, 2017By Alokke Tikku, NDTV, China offered to consider renaming the China-Pakistan Corridor passing through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. New Delhi: Just days before its One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit next week, China offered to consider renaming the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir if this is what it read more →
Tibetan teen sets himself on fire shouting ‘Tibet wants freedom’ and ‘let Dalai Lama come back’
May 9, 2017By Ananya Roy- May 8, 2017 – International Business Times In yet another self-immolation incident in Tibet, a 16-year-old male student recently set himself on fire, shouting: “Tibet wants Freedom. Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet.” Sources told Radio Free Asia that the incident took place read more →