Happy Birthday to Your Holiness
July 9, 2015By Richard Moore, The Huffington Post, 8 July 2015 I am delighted and honoured to say I have met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet on a number of occasions both in Ireland and when I visited him in India. I have had the wonderful privilege of hosting read more →
China ‘harvesting Falun Gong prisoners’ organs’
July 8, 2015Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas in Perth. Picture: Colin Murty Source: News Corp Australia Chinese officials continue to harvest organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners as they lie on operating tables with little pain relief, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas will tell a conference in Perth today. Mr read more →
Hillary Clinton accuses China of ‘trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move’
July 8, 2015US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has accused China of stealing commercial secrets and “huge amounts of government information” and of trying to “hack into everything that doesn’t move in America”. Ms Clinton’s language on China appeared to be far stronger than that usually used by president Barack Obama’s Democratic administration. read more →
7 Signs of a Cult and a Dangerous Nexus: Who are the anti-Dalai Lama protesters?
July 8, 2015By Tsering Wangchuk, Press Officer, DIIR, Central Tibetan Administration with contribution from Mr. Kim Se Hoon. Student at Univ. of Rochester Many in America will remember the gruesome way that some pseudo-religious cult demonstrated their bizarre notions and beliefs by attempting mass suicides in the 90’s. The 39 followers of read more →
Tensions rise as China’s taxi drivers and factory workers strike in record numbers
July 8, 2015China’s taxi drivers and factory workers took the lead in staging strikes and protests across the country in the second quarter of 2015 as threats to their livelihood continued to mount. Construction workers continued their protests over wage arrears but numbers were down slightly compared with earlier in the year. read more →
Saving Tibet’s unique heritage
July 7, 2015By Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times, 7 July 2015 BERLIN – The Dalai Lama is the Tibetans’ god-king and also the embodiment of India’s leverage on the core issue with China — Tibet. But with the longest-living Dalai Lama having turned 80 this month, the future of both Tibet, and the read more →
Kundun: The Presence of an Absence
July 7, 2015The Huffington Post, 7 July 2015 By Dechen Pemba, Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth We Tibetans have many terms of respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Yeshe Norbu, Gongsachog, Chenrezig, Gyalwa Rinpoche, Kundun… These are the names we use when we speak amongst ourselves and these were also read more →
The Dalai Lama Talks About Pope Francis, Aging and Heartbreak With TIME
July 7, 2015Tibet’s exiled government and Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama stands on stage before making a speech to an audience at the ESS Stadium in Aldershot, southern England, Monday, June 29, 2015. Before the speech on Monday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader inaugurated the Buddhist Community Centre UK. (AP Photo/Matt read more →
Tibet’s tough road ahead
July 7, 2015The Dalai Lama prepares to speak in Aldershot, southern England, in June. (Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Carl Gershman July 5, The Washington Post ( Carl Gershman is president of the National Endowment for Democracy ) The 80th birthday Monday of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, is an occasion read more →
Dalai Lama, Anything But “A Simple Buddhist Monk”
July 7, 2015By Shashi Tharoor, NDTV, 6 July 2015 When the United Nations convened a Millennium World Peace Summit of religious leaders at its headquarters in 2000, one major religious figure was conspicuous by his absence. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibetan Buddhism, had not been asked to read more →