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India’s so-called new policy on Tibet is neither new nor effective
By Manoj Joshi – Scroll.in When it comes to the Dalai Lama, Tibet and Tawang, things are not that simple. When the Sikyong (Prime Minister) of the Central Tibet Administration, Lobsang Sangay, was invited to attend the inaugural ceremony of incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, many thought that New Delhi read more →
Tibetan PM in exile for negotiation with China
Times of India – 9 January 2017 GAYA: Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay on Sunday favoured negotiated settlement of the vexed Tibet issue. Exhorting the Chinese government to enter into dialogue with Tibetans, Sangay said negotiation and not confrontation held the key to conflict resolution. read more →
China admits it discouraged Tibetans from attending Kalchakra ritual in Bodhgaya
BEIJING: Chinese officials have confirmed that the government was discouraging people in Tibet from visiting India to attend the Buddhist ritual, Kalchakra, which will be attended by the Dalai Lama this month. But they rejected allegations that the Chinese government was forcing Tibetan travellers who are visiting India to return to China. Earlier, Karma Gelek Yuthok, read more →
India should take a bolder line with Beijing on Tibet
By Prof Brahma Chellaney – Nikkei Asian Review, 6 Jnuary 2017 While it has become fashionable to pair China and India, as if they were joined at the hip, it is often forgotten that the two have little in common politically, economically or culturally. Comparatively speaking, the countries are new read more →
Between Inner Asia and East Asia: Tibet’s Historical Context and Pragmatic Opportunities
By William Z. Liu, Historian, ex-medical examiner, author of Canons and Chronicles: China’s Historical Construction The Inner Asia and East Asia complex has been the traditional cornerstone of imperial undertaking in Asia. Inner Asia exported organisation and technologies, whereas East Asia provided manpower and money. Hardly is it coincidental that, during their read more →
Rethink in New Delhi: Dalai Lama, Karmapa to be in the public gaze
Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra in Bodhgaya on Tuesday. PTI photo Written by Jyoti Malhotra | New Delhi | Published:January 4, 2017 4:17 – Indian Express, Tibetan spiritual leader to attend international meet in Rajgir-Nalanda in March, Karmapa will travel to Sikkim. Two years after he was taken in a read more →
Reclaiming India’s leverage on Tibet
Brahma Chellaney, The Live Mint – 4 January 2017 India’s instinctive chariness and reserve on the issue persist, despite an increasingly muscular China upping the ante against it Central governments come and go in New Delhi but India’s instinctive chariness and reserve on the issue of Tibet still persist, despite read more →
China blocks Tibetans from visiting India: Govt-in-exile sources
Hindustan Times (PTI) Updated: Jan 04, 2017 00:47 IST The Chinese government has imposed travel restrictions on Tibetans to block their travel to India for attending Kalachakra teachings, sources from the Tibetan ‘government-in-exile’ claimed on Tuesday. News emanating from Tibet reported that the Chinese government began confiscating passports from Tibetans read more →
China tightens Tibetan border security to combat ‘separatism’
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama addresses devotees on the first day of Kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India, on Monday. Buddhist devotees from across the globe have arrived in this small town to attend the ‘Kalachakra’ or Wheel of Time initiations by the Dalai Lama. | Photo Credit: AP The Hindu read more →
Dalai Lama performs pre-Kalchakra rituals
Times of India – 3 January 2017 GAYA: Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Monday performed the pre-Kalchakra rituals at the designated site to the northwest of Mahabodhi Temple, the seat of Buddha’s enlightenment. The rituals included purification of earth at the main venue. The Kalchakra rituals aim at read more →
Dalai Lama’s abode turning into a concrete jungle
Hindustan Times – 2 January 2017 This once-peaceful abode of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, with the Dhauladhar ranges in the backdrop, is rapidly turning into a concrete jungle with massive constructions underway to cash in on the tourism boom. Experts fear a high-intensity quake can turn this quaint uphill read more →
Guy de Jonquieres – Trump’s TPP rejection does not make China the natural heir
Guy de Jonquieres, Nikkei Asian Review The world has been quick to draw two conclusions from President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to pull the U.S. out of the planned 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership. One is that the move will severely diminish America’s influence in Asia; the other, that it read more →
Tibet: Tensions on the roof of the world
Matt Rivers, CNN, 30 December 2016 Lhasa, Tibet (CNN)It’s dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims. They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest place. Some prostrate themselves on the cool stone ground, while others walk clockwise around the read more →
China Needs to Get Over the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Mongolia
By Bolor Lkhaajav, The Diplomat – 28 December 2016 It’s Mongolia’s right to invite a religious leader to visit. China is exaggerating the political significance. Since the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongolian Empire has allowed merchants, scholars, diplomats, and religious peoples from all over the world and treated them equally on a read more →
Tibet: Tensions on the roof of the world
Pilgrims walking and praying near the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, in September. By Matt Rivers, CNN – 29 December 2016 Lhasa, Tibet (CNN)It’s dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims. They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest place. read more →