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What China doesn’t get about Dalai Lama’s popularity in Tibet and India
Claude Arpi, DailyO, 12 April 2017 The Dalai Lama’s ongoing visit to Arunachal Pradesh, particularly to Tawang, the Land of Mon, has generated a great flow of ink. As usual, the Chinese were the first to shoot; their propaganda machine is far better organised than their Indian counterparts, who have read more →
“Government propaganda makes Chinese people think that Uyghurs deserve to be suppressed and killed”
Rebiya Kadeer is probably the best-known activist —at least in the Western world— of the Uyghur national movement. A former entrepreneur and philanthropist, Kadeer held several official positions in China during the 1990s. Everything changed in 1999, when she was arrested and sentenced to prison, officially for having passed on read more →
Dalai Lama says Tibetan people should decide on his succession
By Sunil Kataria | REUTERS Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Saturday the Tibetan people should decide if they wanted to continue with his institution, adding that he wanted to convene a meeting of senior monks this year to start discussing his succession. China, which brands the Nobel Peace read more →
The Dalai Lama Factor in Sino-Indian Relations
Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate, 10 April 2017 NEW DELHI – Relations between India and China haven’t been particularly warm in recent months. But they have lately taken on an icy chill, with Chinese leaders furious over the Dalai Lama’s visit to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China read more →
India Need Not Worry About China’s Bluster on Tawang and the Dalai Lama
Kanwal Sibal, The Wire, 9 April 2017 China’s policies in Tibet are reprehensible. The destruction of Tibetan patrimony during the cultural revolution was terrible. The suppression of the human rights of Tibetans, the demographic changes being wrought in Tibet through Han migration, the damage being done to the region’s fragile read more →
Dalai Lama Says China Cannot Decide His Successor
NEW DELHI — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said it is up to the Tibetan people to decide whether the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and that China cannot decide on his successor.He said he will organize a conference to discuss the issue of the next Dalai read more →
People, not China, will decide fate of my office: Dalai Lama in Tawang
India TV News Desk, 8 April 2017 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said that his followers, and not China, will decide whether the office of the Dalai Lama exits in the future. Addressing a huge gathering of his followers at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama said read more →
Dalai Lama Returns To His First Home In India
NDTV, 8 April 2017 TAWANG, ARUNACHAL PRADESH: The Dalai Lama returned to his first home in India, the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, where he had spent three days after fleeing Tibet in 1959. Monks wearing the traditional yellow hat of the Gelug sect of Buddhism escorted the Dalai Lama read more →
Dalai Lama reaches Tawang amid rousing welcome by hundreds
Times of India, 8 April 2017 TAWANG: Overcoming bad weather, the Dalai Lamafinally arrived in Tawang, the second most important seat of Tibetan Buddhism after Lhasa, amid rousing welcome by hundreds of people to the spiritual leader on Friday. Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khanduaccompanied the Dalai Lama during his read more →
Dalai lama reaches Tawang, receives warm welcome
Dirang: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (L) talking to Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu at the Thupsung Dhargyeling Monastery in Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday. PTI Photo A large number of devotees who had come from far-flung areas to catch a glimpse of their beloved leader whom they consider read more →
Dalai Lama’s Journey Provokes China, and Hints at His Heir
The Dalai Lama greeted followers Thursday at a monastery in Dirang, in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Credit Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters By Ellen Barry – The New York Times, 6 April 2017 NEW DELHI — It has been a hard journey for the 81-year-old Dalai Lama, perhaps his last read more →
‘India shares boundary with Tibet, not China’: Arunachal CM on Beijing’s protest over Dalai Lama visit
Source: http://m.indiatvnews.com Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu today said that China has no right to object as it is not even the next-door neighbour in this part of India. Launching a scathing attack on Beijing for raising objections to the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, state Chief Minister Pema Khandu read more →
The kingdom of women: the society where a man is never the boss
source: https://www.theguardian.com It’s a place where women rule, marriage doesn’t exist and everything follows the maternal bloodline. But is it as good for women as it sounds – and how long can it last? Imagine a society without fathers; without marriage (or divorce); one in which nuclear families don’t exist. read more →
Dalai Lama’s message for China from Arunachal: Situation inside Tibet tragic
By Manogya Loiwal | Edited by Shashank Shantanu – India Today Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is visiting Arunachal Pradesh amid strong reactions from China. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has described the present situation in his home country as deplorable even as Chinese state media threatened that Beijing read more →
China Uighurs: Ban on long beards, veils in Xinjiang
Beijing says new rules are necessary to fight ‘extremism’ but rights groups have called similar restrictions repressive. China has banned “abnormal” beards and full-face coverings in the remote western region of Xinjiang as part of tighter “anti-extremism” regulations that also prohibit rejecting state media. Xinjiang is home to about 10 read more →