Every Suffering Has a Meaning
April 14, 2015By Ming Xia –Speech at the Tibetan National Uprising Day in New York and New Jersey– Fifty-six years ago, the Dalai Lama was forced to leave his people and homeland behind, and started his life in exile at age 24. This is suffering. Reaching age 80, His Holiness the Dalai read more →
Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief
April 9, 2015AFP April 8, 2015, 3:47 pm Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief Beijing (AFP) – China’s top official in Tibet vowed on Wednesday to evaluate Buddhist monks and nuns for their “patriotism” and install national flags in monasteries to strengthen ideological control in the region. The read more →
Over 100 monks and nuns expelled, repression continues in Tibet
April 9, 2015Friday, 03 April 2015 19:10 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International Dharamshala — Emerging sources say Chinese authorities have expelled more than 100 monks and nuns from their monasteries and nunneries in Driru County, eastern Tibet and seven monks severely beaten and held after staging protest. A newly built nunnery has read more →
Symposium honours late professor who pioneered modern Tibetan studies
April 9, 2015(TibetanReview.net, Apr08, 2015) – A symposium was held in New Delhi on Apr 7 in honour of late Professor Dawa Norbu who had pioneered exile Tibetan scholarship in modern academic fields. He was best known initially for his editorship of the Tibetan Review magazine in the 1970s and, later, read more →
China cannot believe its luck over new investment bank
April 8, 2015Tom Mitchell in Beijing, Financial Times, 6 April 2015 The Chinese government can scarcely believe its own luck. Heaping Asian insult upon Capitol Hill injury, last week Benjamin Netanyahu committed Israel to join Beijing’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. While there is no love lost between the Israeli prime minister read more →
Tibet party boss says temples must be propaganda centres
April 3, 2015World | Fri Apr 3, 2015 8:05am BST BEIJING (Reuters) – Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centres for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to “revere” science and appreciate the party’s love, the troubled region’s top Chinese appointed official said. Rights groups and exiles say the officially atheist party tramples on Tibetans’ read more →
Legacy preserved in dolls
April 2, 2015ROHINI KEJRIWAL, MARCH 8, 2015, DHNS Toy culture Some of the traditional dolls created by Dolls4Tibet. Dolls4Tibet, based out of Dharamsala, is a group where women who are Tibetan refugees or local Indians create dolls that are not only beautiful but also stand for a cause. In fact, it’s one read more →
Tibetan Buddhist leader blazes an innovative trail
April 2, 2015The Washington Post By Joshua Eaton | Religion News Service March 27 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Wrapped in the maroon and gold robes of a Tibetan monk, Ogyen Trinley Dorje isn’t what most people picture when they think of innovation.To his followers, Dorje is the 17th Karmapa — the leader of the Karma read more →
China Is Urged to Confront Its Own History
April 2, 2015At center, Son Sen, the Khmer Rouge defense minister, with Chinese advisers in 1977.Credit Documentation Center of Cambodia archives By Dan Levin, (Sinosphere) New York Times, 30 March 2015 The tour guide outside the bloodstained classrooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the high school in the Cambodian capital of read more →
The Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers
April 1, 2015By MICHAEL BUCKLEYMARCH 30, 2015 Photo Credit: Matt Chase NEW DELHI — CHINA has more than 26,000 large dams, more than the rest of the world combined. They feed its insatiable demand for energy and supply water for mining, manufacturing and agriculture. In 2011, when China was already generating more than a read more →