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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 →
Dalai Lama arrives in Bodh Gaya after 4 years
His His Holiness the Dalai Lama along with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and monks from the Pali and Sanskrit traditions chanting prayers at Buddha Smriti Park in Patna, Bihar, India on December 28, 2016. Photo/Tenzin Taklha/OHHDL Times of India, 29 December 2016 GAYA: Buddhist spiritual leader and Nobel Peace read more →
Dalai Lama, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar plant Anand Bodhi tree sapling
Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during a visit at Buddha Smriti Park in Patna on Wednesday (Rahul Sharma) Vithika Salomi, DNA – 29 December 2016 Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who was in Patna on Wednesday, called Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an old read more →
China says party control over religion in Tibet will only increase
Reuters, 28 December 2016 The Communist Party’s control over religion in Tibet can only increase, the region’s top official was quoted as saying on Thursday, vowing to step up efforts to expose the “sinister intentions” of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Chinese troops marched in and took control of read more →
The road to Tibet will soon be a freeway to a tourists’ playground
Tourists to Tibet mill around the front of the country’s iconic Potala Palase in Lhasa in this picture taken in September, 2011. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Globe and Mail – 28 December 2016 More than one price is being paid to change villages without paved roads, electricity or tap water to read more →