Dalai Lama on Analytic Meditation And How It Helps Cultivate Positivity
February 1, 2017News18 – 30 January 2017 Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama who identifies most strongly with his role as a simple Buddhist monk, was ordained at a very early age and his daily regimen includes spending several hours in prayer and meditation. While his daily practice may include several different read more →
China’s Communist Party is worried about rise of Buddhism
February 1, 2017http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/ By JAYADEVA RANADE | 28 January, 2017 Buddhist Association of China issued a directive calling for the prevention and restriction of ‘illegal’ propagation of Tibetan Buddhism in Zhejiang province. Indications over the past few months hint at a degree of nervousness in some quarters within the Chinese Communist Party’s read more →
Tibet is Not an Internal Issue of China
January 31, 2017by N.S.Venkataraman ( January 31, 2017, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) China has raised objections over the presence of Mr. Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile, at a recent dinner hosted by the former US envoy to India in New Delhi. The above objection only highlights the fact read more →
China’s Communist Party is worried about rise of Buddhism
January 30, 2017By JAYADEVA RANADE | Sunday Guardian Live, 28 January, 2017 Buddhist Association of China issued a directive calling for the prevention and restriction of ‘illegal’ propagation of Tibetan Buddhism in Zhejiang province. Indications over the past few months hint at a degree of nervousness in some quarters within the Chinese read more →
China objects Tibetan Prime Minister’s presence at US envoy’s dinner
January 29, 2017Tibetan PM in exile seeking blessings from spiritual leader dalai Lama at the closing ceremony of the 34th Kalachakra prayers at Bodh Gaya. BEIJING: China on Saturday raised objections over the presence of the Prime Minister of ‘Tibetan government-in-exile’ at a recent dinner hosted by former US envoy to India read more →
Kiren Rijiju, Tibetan leaders attend US envoy dinner
January 28, 2017By: PTI | New Delhi | January 28, 2017 The dinner was hosted by Verma on January 15 for his visiting friend and Hollywood actor Richard Gere, in what may signal prominence to the Tibet issue in international fora. Winding up his tenure in New Delhi, US Ambassador to India read more →
Liberal think tank is latest to be silenced in China
January 26, 2017By GERRY SHIH, AP, 25 January 2017 BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in China have shuttered the website and social media accounts of a prominent economics think tank amid a mounting assault on liberal academic voices. The Unirule Institute of Economics in Beijing has become the latest target of a government read more →
New Delhi rolls the dice on Tibet
January 25, 2017By Harsh V Pant | Wed, 25 Jan 2017 – DNA Appeasing China by sacrificing the interests of the Tibetan people have not yielded any benefits to India China’s refusal to acknowledge Indian national security concerns is now leading to a gradual but significant change in India’s Tibet policy. The read more →
China abandoning rule of law, human rights lawyers say
January 24, 2017Authors called on Xi Jinping to uphold international law if China truly wants the responsibility of a global power. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters The Guardian – 24 January 2017 Group of leading lawyers and judges expresses ‘grave concern’ over the detention of legal professionals Top human rights lawyers say Xi Jinping’s read more →
China Poised to Repeat Tibet Mistakes
January 23, 2017Chen Quanguo visits a “convenience police-post” in Lhasa, TAR, during Chinese New Year festivities in 2012.© China Tibet News By Sophie Richardson, China Director, Human Rights Watch, January 20, 2017 Abusive Policies Planned for Uyghur Region It looks like China is exporting the same abusive policies it has been using read more →