His Holiness the Dalai Lama Arrives in Japan
May 8, 2016dalailama.com Narita, Japan, 8 May 2016 After a comfortable flight from Delhi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at Narita International Airport around lunchtime today. He was received at the door of the plane by a representative from the Indian Embassy in Tokyo and Japanese officials. Tibetan Representative Lungtok was read more →
Inner Peace? The Dalai Lama Made a Website for That
May 6, 2016The Dalai Lama spoke about the Atlas of Emotions study at the Wilson House on the Sisters of St. Francis’ Assisi Heights campus in Rochester, Minn. Credit Tim Gruber for The New York Times The New York Times, 6 May 2016 ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Dalai Lama, who tirelessly preaches read more →
The Dalai Lama’s practical path to peace
May 6, 2016Michael Gerson, The Washington Post, Opinions DHARAMSALA, India – When posed a policy question, the Dalai Lama is surprisingly (for a religious leader) un-prone to moralism. What, I asked him, does he think of the European backlash against migration? “In the name of sympathy, for the few who are desperate, read more →
Open up or break up, dissident Yang Jianli tells China
May 4, 2016Yang Jianli Bharat Bhushan, Catch News, 4 May 2016 Chinese dissident leader Yang Jianli, the moving force behind the Interfaith Conference of China’s ethnic and religious minorities in Dharamsala recently, is not unduly disturbed by the cancellation of visas of some dissident leaders by India. He pointed out that despite read more →
Q. and A.: Tomas Plänkers on the Psychic Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
May 3, 2016The Sinosphere, The New York Times Fifty years after the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, when Mao Zedong and the Communist Party called on young people to “beat, smash, loot and burn” in a rebellion against authority and tradition that left millions dead, Chinese today are living with read more →
China’s war on groups that help the powerless
May 2, 2016Editorial board, The Washington Post, 1 May 2016 IN CHINA’s drive to modernize over the past few decades — a period in which it became an economic superpower — civil society groups took root, helping fight poverty and environmental damage, offering legal services, aiding migrants, and improving health care and read more →
Harry Wu, dissident and activist who endured 19 years in Chinese labor camps, dies at 79
April 29, 2016By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, 27 April 2016 Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident who mounted an international campaign to expose the horrors of his country’s laogai labor camps, where he endured 19 years of captivity as an alleged counterrevolutionary, died April 26 while vacationing in Honduras. He was 79. read more →
Re-Elected Tibetan Leader Pledges to Revive Global Awareness of His Country’s Plight
April 29, 2016Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (prime minister) of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, delivers a speech during a European rally marking a failed 1959 uprising against China on March 14, 2015 in Paris. That uprising forced the Dalai Lama to flee, and the Tibetan spiritual leader has been living in exile in India ever read more →
Exiled Tibetans reelect Lobsang Sangay as leader
April 28, 2016©REMKO DE WAAL (AFP) AFP, 27 April 2016 Exiled Tibetans have reelected Lobsang Sangay as their leader, the election commission said Wednesday, five years after the Dalai Lama ceded political power in a bid to foster democracy and secure his succession. The 48-year-old former academic won 57 percent of the read more →
China Close to Passing Strict Law on Foreign Groups
April 27, 2016By EDWARD WONG, New York Times, April 25, 2016 BEIJING — China is moving closer this week to a new law that would strictly control thousands of foreign nongovernmental organizations in the country, state-run news agencies reported on Monday. Officials are expected to give rapid approval to what may be read more →