Dalai Lama performs pre-Kalchakra rituals
January 3, 2017Times of India – 3 January 2017 GAYA: Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Monday performed the pre-Kalchakra rituals at the designated site to the northwest of Mahabodhi Temple, the seat of Buddha’s enlightenment. The rituals included purification of earth at the main venue. The Kalchakra rituals aim at read more →
Dalai Lama’s abode turning into a concrete jungle
January 3, 2017Hindustan Times – 2 January 2017 This once-peaceful abode of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, with the Dhauladhar ranges in the backdrop, is rapidly turning into a concrete jungle with massive constructions underway to cash in on the tourism boom. Experts fear a high-intensity quake can turn this quaint uphill read more →
Guy de Jonquieres – Trump’s TPP rejection does not make China the natural heir
January 1, 2017Guy de Jonquieres, Nikkei Asian Review The world has been quick to draw two conclusions from President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to pull the U.S. out of the planned 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership. One is that the move will severely diminish America’s influence in Asia; the other, that it read more →
Tibet: Tensions on the roof of the world
December 31, 2016Matt Rivers, CNN, 30 December 2016 Lhasa, Tibet (CNN)It’s dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims. They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest place. Some prostrate themselves on the cool stone ground, while others walk clockwise around the read more →
China Needs to Get Over the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Mongolia
December 31, 2016By Bolor Lkhaajav, The Diplomat – 28 December 2016 It’s Mongolia’s right to invite a religious leader to visit. China is exaggerating the political significance. Since the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongolian Empire has allowed merchants, scholars, diplomats, and religious peoples from all over the world and treated them equally on a read more →
Tibet: Tensions on the roof of the world
December 30, 2016Pilgrims walking and praying near the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, in September. By Matt Rivers, CNN – 29 December 2016 Lhasa, Tibet (CNN)It’s dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims. They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest place. read more →
Dalai Lama arrives in Bodh Gaya after 4 years
December 29, 2016His His Holiness the Dalai Lama along with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and monks from the Pali and Sanskrit traditions chanting prayers at Buddha Smriti Park in Patna, Bihar, India on December 28, 2016. Photo/Tenzin Taklha/OHHDL Times of India, 29 December 2016 GAYA: Buddhist spiritual leader and Nobel Peace read more →
Dalai Lama, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar plant Anand Bodhi tree sapling
December 29, 2016Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during a visit at Buddha Smriti Park in Patna on Wednesday (Rahul Sharma) Vithika Salomi, DNA – 29 December 2016 Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who was in Patna on Wednesday, called Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an old read more →
China says party control over religion in Tibet will only increase
December 29, 2016Reuters, 28 December 2016 The Communist Party’s control over religion in Tibet can only increase, the region’s top official was quoted as saying on Thursday, vowing to step up efforts to expose the “sinister intentions” of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Chinese troops marched in and took control of read more →
The road to Tibet will soon be a freeway to a tourists’ playground
December 29, 2016Tourists to Tibet mill around the front of the country’s iconic Potala Palase in Lhasa in this picture taken in September, 2011. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Globe and Mail – 28 December 2016 More than one price is being paid to change villages without paved roads, electricity or tap water to read more →