Talking Buddhism and politics at the White House
April 20, 2015BY LION’S ROAR STAFF | APRIL 14, 2015 On May 14, Buddhist leaders including the scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi will join together to present the first-ever White House-US Buddhist Leadership Conference. Sessions for the conference will be held at George Washington University, moving then to to the White House—specifically, in the read more →
Schoolboy sends fan letter to Dalai Lama – and gets invited to India for a chat
April 20, 201519 April 2015 By Mike Lockley Edgbaston 13-year-old George Morris and dad stunned when Tibetan guru jets them out to meet him George Morris who got to meet the Dalai Lama It’s a story so fantastic, heart-warming and brimful of hope it could have been scripted by Disney. The schoolboy who read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
April 17, 2015Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
April 17, 2015Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
April 17, 2015Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy
April 16, 2015Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy
April 16, 2015Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →
China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet
April 15, 2015By NICOLE PERLROTHAPRIL 10, 2015 A tool researchers call the Great Cannon is said to have redirected traffic intended for the Chinese search engine Baidu. Photo Credit: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out read more →
China’s Crackdowns in Tibet
April 15, 2015Rights groups are pushing for international action on the serial use of lethal force to crush Buddhist dissent. By Kevin Holden April 14, 2015, The Diplomat The United Nations is set to receive evidence that Chinese People’s Armed Police troops have repeatedly opened fire on unarmed Tibetan protesters calling for read more →
An avatar Beijing would love to control
April 14, 2015By Jayadeva Ranade, Hindustan Times, 10 April 2015 The Communist Party of China has not been able to undermine the influence of the Dalai Lama among Tibetans. The issues of Tibet and the Dalai Lama have been accorded higher listing among the domestic priorities of the Chinese leadership under President read more →