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Exiled Tibetans elect leader to sustain Dalai Lama legacy
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) and Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. (Reuters Photo) By Abhishek Madhukar and Rupam Jain, Reuters, 18 March 2016 (NDTV) DHARAMSALA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of exiled Tibetans across India and overseas will vote on Sunday to elect read more →
Exactly 57 Years Ago, The Dalai Lama Escaped From China To Find Refuge in India
By Kunal Anand, Indiatimes – 17 March 2016 It was just a flight for survival for the Dalai Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet, world’s last surviving “Buddhocracy”. In 1959, Chairman Mao had decided that China must invade, and they did so ferociously. Today, Tibet is a democratic government in exile, read more →
The Indian Spy Who Fell for Tibet
By SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN – New York Times – 16 MARCH 2016 Sent by Britain to carry out a secret survey, Sarat Chandra Das became enchanted instead. If it hadn’t been for a bout of malaria, Sarat Chandra Das might never have become a spy. As a civil engineer, he might read more →
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation
The Washington Post By Emily Rauhala and Xu Yangjingjing March 16 at 3:25 AM Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of read more →
Dalai Lama Says Key To Happiness Is Letting Go
Micheal Lazar, Huffington Post, 15 March 2016 We all want to find and sustain happiness. And for the Dalai Lama, this inner peace may be easily found by doing one thing: determining that whatever is bothering you no longer exist. Well, sort of. Of course, reaching this plain of enlightenment read more →
Rare act of dissent at China’s annual parliament
Tribute songs to Xi Jinping (centre) have become something of a musical genre in their own right By John Sudworth, BBC, 16 March 2016 After 11 days of interminable speeches, followed by ritualistic voting to approve everything put before it, China’s annual parliamentary gathering will, once again, leave little worthy read more →
‘New railway line in Tibet will damage environment, has India worried’
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway link – the first railway network that connects TAR to any other province. (www.chinatibettrain.com) Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, Beijing – Published on 15 March 2016 The new railway line to connect Lhasa and Sichuan in southwest China will not only damage the fragile eco-system of the Tibet read more →
KFC opens outlet in Tibet
Locals form long lines in the new KFC restaurant in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, on March 9, its second day of business. (Palden Nyima / China Daily) By Palden Nyima in Lhasa and Lin Shujuan in Beijing, China Daily, 10 March 2016 KFC has become the first Western fast food read more →
Big audience for panel with Dalai Lama despite Beijing protest
A view of the auditorium during the panel discussion on ‘Nobel Laureates on Human Rights – A view from civil society’ in Geneva, Switzerland on March 11, 2016. Photo/Olivier Adam By Stephanie Nebehay, GENEVA (Reuters) – 11 March 2016 The Dalai Lama took part in a panel of Nobel Peace read more →
Here’s the Chinese government’s step-by-step guide to becoming a ‘living Buddha’
Los Angeles Times /By Jonathan Kaiman Contact Reporter The Communist Party bureaucracy has managed to work its way into almost all aspects of life — and now even the afterlife– in China.In order to gain greater control over Tibet, the officially atheist party has taken over the process of designating read more →
Anti-Dalai Lama group disbands after Chinese role is exposed
Members of the International Shugden Community rally against the Dalai Lama, who they accuse of religious intolerance, across the street from the site of the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in Washington, February 5, 2015.REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST/FILES Reuters, 12 March 2016 The Buddhist group leading a global campaign of read more →
U.S. should speak out for Tibet: Nancy Pelosi & Jim McGovern
Nancy Pelosi and Jim McGover, 10 March 2016, USA Today Freedom-loving nations must call international attention to mounting Chinese human rights violations. Last November, we led the first delegation of United States members of Congress the Chinese government has allowed to visit Tibet in more than eight years. As we read more →
China Urges Diplomats and U.N. to Boycott Dalai Lama in Geneva
New York Times, By REUTERS, MARCH 10, 2016 GENEVA — China has written to diplomats and U.N. officials urging them not to attend a Geneva event on Friday where the Dalai Lama will speak, reasserting that it opposes his appearance at all venues due to his “separatist activities”. Reuters reported read more →
Environment created for regional war in Asia: Tibetan Prof
Prothom Alo – Bangladesh Mizanur Rahman Khan | Update: 21:44, Mar 08, 2016 A senior exiled Tibetan professor has urged the Chinese president Xi Jinping to resume talks stalled in 2010, with the representative of the spiritual leader Dalai Lama to resolve the Tibet issues peacefully. He called upon Mr read more →
Taiwan’s plans to invite Dalai Lama riles China
By Didi Tang | AP published on The Hindu, 7 March 2016 According to reports, Taiwanese President-elect Tsai Ing-wen is considering inviting the highest-ranking figure in Tibetan Buddhism to visit in his capacity as a religious leader. China on Monday strongly opposed any invitation to the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan, the read more →