Free Tibet challenges China’s propaganda in schools
April 1, 2015Monday, 30 March 2015 China pays for “massive expansion” in teaching about China Free Tibet launches a new campaign today over Confucius Classrooms – the Chinese government’s programme of language teaching in more than 600 schools around the world. Confucius Classrooms are part of the highly controversialConfucius Institutes programme, which read more →
Why The Dalai Lama Matters As The Leader of the Tibetans
April 1, 2015By Robert Thurman The Dalai Lama continues to inspire restraint and nonviolence among the Tibetan youth in exile and all the Tibetans in Tibet, in spite of their mounting frustration at the lack of progress made in achieving economic self-sufficiency, religious freedom, and human and other rights due to the read more →
The Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers
March 31, 2015By Micheal Buckley, New York Times, Op-Ed, 30 March 2015 NEW DELHI — China is the most dammed nation on the planet. With more than 26,000 large dams within its borders, the country has more than the rest of the world combined. The dams feed China’s insatiable demand for energy and read more →
Sri Lanka fires fresh salvo at Chinese firm over Port City project
March 29, 2015Minister pulls up Colombo Port City company; says Xi Jinping sprang a surprise by telling Sirisena that China, Lanka and India should work closely in future PUBLISHED : Friday, 27 March, 2015, 11:17pm UPDATED : Saturday, 28 March, 2015, 12:25am South China Morning Post, Debasish Roy Chowdhury The Chinese company read more →
Buddhist Union – Spiritual Confluence or Geo-Politics ?
March 26, 2015By Claude Arpi, Niti Central, 23 March 2015 On March 19, an unusual event happened in Delhi. The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama met with a delegation of Sri Lankan Theros (senior monks), to discuss about Vinaya, the Buddhist monastic discipline. It is a rather rare occurrence, as the read more →
Dalai Lama’s Former Envoy, Experts Talk Tibet’s Dialogue Process with Chinese Leadership
March 26, 2015(From Left to Right – Richard Sui, Former Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, Dr. Paul Zwier, Tsewang Rigzin) By Tsewang Rigzin, Emory University Emory kicked off the 15th annual Tibet Week with a live Mandala art painting exhibition by the monks of the Drepung Loseling read more →
What to Expect From India-China Border Talks in the Modi-Xi Era
March 25, 2015India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Kumar Doval, right, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi shake hands before the start of the 18th round of talks on India-China border dispute in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 23, 2015. For the first time since Narendra Modi came to power, India and China read more →
Buddhism, China and Russia
March 25, 2015The Economist, 21 March 2015 MY COLLEAGUE Banyan reports in the print edition this week on the surreal spat involving China and the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama, who is nearly 80, has been denounced by Chinese officials and media for daring to suggest that he read more →
Tibet’s New Normal
March 23, 2015By Tenzin Tseten* China has entered a new economic phase called “new normal” amid its economic slowdown. For that particular reason, Beijing is injecting a state-sponsored stimulus to overcome the 7.5 percent GDP target set last year. Unfortunately, the figure has dropped below the set target. Analysts forecast the current read more →
The Golden Urn
March 21, 2015The Economists, 21 March 2015 Even China accepts that only the Dalai Lama can legitimise its rule in Tibet WHEN the 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933, the body of Tibet’s spiritual leader was placed in state on a throne at the Norbulingka, his summer palace in the capital, Lhasa. read more →