Tibetan leader rejects China’s demand for recalling Tibetan pilgrims
January 11, 2017ANI news published by Business Standard – 10 January 2017 Tibet’s exiled Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay has rejected China’s demand for a recall of Tibetan pilgrims attending the Kalchakra Mandal initiation conferred by the Dalai Lamba. Beijing has imposed severe travel restrictions on Tibetans in a bid to block their read more →
India’s so-called new policy on Tibet is neither new nor effective
January 10, 2017By Manoj Joshi – Scroll.in When it comes to the Dalai Lama, Tibet and Tawang, things are not that simple. When the Sikyong (Prime Minister) of the Central Tibet Administration, Lobsang Sangay, was invited to attend the inaugural ceremony of incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, many thought that New Delhi read more →
Tibetan PM in exile for negotiation with China
January 9, 2017Times of India – 9 January 2017 GAYA: Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay on Sunday favoured negotiated settlement of the vexed Tibet issue. Exhorting the Chinese government to enter into dialogue with Tibetans, Sangay said negotiation and not confrontation held the key to conflict resolution. read more →
China admits it discouraged Tibetans from attending Kalchakra ritual in Bodhgaya
January 8, 2017BEIJING: Chinese officials have confirmed that the government was discouraging people in Tibet from visiting India to attend the Buddhist ritual, Kalchakra, which will be attended by the Dalai Lama this month. But they rejected allegations that the Chinese government was forcing Tibetan travellers who are visiting India to return to China. Earlier, Karma Gelek Yuthok, read more →
India should take a bolder line with Beijing on Tibet
January 6, 2017By Prof Brahma Chellaney – Nikkei Asian Review, 6 Jnuary 2017 While it has become fashionable to pair China and India, as if they were joined at the hip, it is often forgotten that the two have little in common politically, economically or culturally. Comparatively speaking, the countries are new read more →
Between Inner Asia and East Asia: Tibet’s Historical Context and Pragmatic Opportunities
January 6, 2017By William Z. Liu, Historian, ex-medical examiner, author of Canons and Chronicles: China’s Historical Construction The Inner Asia and East Asia complex has been the traditional cornerstone of imperial undertaking in Asia. Inner Asia exported organisation and technologies, whereas East Asia provided manpower and money. Hardly is it coincidental that, during their read more →
Rethink in New Delhi: Dalai Lama, Karmapa to be in the public gaze
January 4, 2017Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra in Bodhgaya on Tuesday. PTI photo Written by Jyoti Malhotra | New Delhi | Published:January 4, 2017 4:17 – Indian Express, Tibetan spiritual leader to attend international meet in Rajgir-Nalanda in March, Karmapa will travel to Sikkim. Two years after he was taken in a read more →
Reclaiming India’s leverage on Tibet
January 4, 2017Brahma Chellaney, The Live Mint – 4 January 2017 India’s instinctive chariness and reserve on the issue persist, despite an increasingly muscular China upping the ante against it Central governments come and go in New Delhi but India’s instinctive chariness and reserve on the issue of Tibet still persist, despite read more →
China blocks Tibetans from visiting India: Govt-in-exile sources
January 4, 2017Hindustan Times (PTI) Updated: Jan 04, 2017 00:47 IST The Chinese government has imposed travel restrictions on Tibetans to block their travel to India for attending Kalachakra teachings, sources from the Tibetan ‘government-in-exile’ claimed on Tuesday. News emanating from Tibet reported that the Chinese government began confiscating passports from Tibetans read more →
China tightens Tibetan border security to combat ‘separatism’
January 4, 2017Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama addresses devotees on the first day of Kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India, on Monday. Buddhist devotees from across the globe have arrived in this small town to attend the ‘Kalachakra’ or Wheel of Time initiations by the Dalai Lama. | Photo Credit: AP The Hindu read more →