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Beijing better sit down with the Dalai Lama: Column
Allen R. Carlson, USA TODAY, 13 November 2015 If China’s Xi Jinping can talk with Taiwan’s leader, he can talk to Tibet’s. This may be the last chance. With this past weekend’s meeting with Taiwanese President Ma Ying Jeou, Chinese President Xi Jinping has accomplished something none of his predecessors at read more →
Tibet’s plea: fix the roof of the world before it’s too late
Tibet’s plea: fix the roof of the world before it’s too late Lobsang Sangay Wednesday 11 November 2015 14.50 GMT Last modified on Wednesday 11 November 2015 14.52 GMT / theguardian The roof of the world. That is what Tibet has long been known as. The phrase conjures up images of read more →
Pelosi on rare visit to Tibet by US congressional delegation
Associated Press, 12 November 2015 BEIJING (AP) — U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has led a delegation on a rare trip by foreign politicians to Tibet, during a visit to China that included meetings with officials in Beijing. Pelosi, the former House speaker, has been a frequent read more →
Communist Party Warns Secret Dalai Lama Followers in Its Ranks
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, in Dharmsala, India, last month. Ashwini Bhatia/Associated Press By Edward Wong, 11 November 2015, The New York Times BEIJING — The Chinese Communist Party in central Tibet is aiming to peer into the hearts of its members to hunt down secret worshipers of read more →
Tibet’s plea: fix the roof of the world before it’s too late
Tibet is the world’s highest and largest plateau.’ Photograph: Purbu Zhaxi/Xinhua Press/Corbis by Dr. Lobsang Sangay, published on The Guardian, 12 November 2015 The roof of the world. That is what Tibet has long been known as. The phrase conjures up images of summits, with their mountain peaks, glaciers, permafrost read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Talk to Students at IIT Madras
dalailama.com Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 10 November 2015 The intense rainstorms that lashed Chennai over the last couple of days had eased up as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove across the city this morning. He had been invited to speak to students of the IIT Madras as part of read more →
You cannot eliminate all those who disagree: Dalai Lama
Dennis S. Jesudasan, The Hindu, 10 November 2015 CHENNAI: The Nobel peace laureate said secular meant respect all religions, including non-believers. Observing that the 21st century was filled with too much violence, the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday that it was not acceptable to eliminate dissenting voices. Delivering his lecture read more →
Chief Guest at the First Occasion for the Giving of the Abdul Kalam Seva Ratna Awards
dalailama.com Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 9 November 2015 When His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Chennai this morning after an early flight from Delhi, the city was awash with water. Incessant heavy rains and wind throughout the weekend were yet to let up. Cars threw up spray as they read more →
China says graft fight in Tibet also aimed at religion
Reuters, 9 November 2015 China‘s ruling Communist Party’s fight against corruption is also being applied in Tibet to officials who secretly believe in religion and try to pay pilgrimages to the Dalai Lama, China’s top official in the region said on Monday. Beijing says it “peacefully liberated” Tibet in 1950 read more →
Change education system to improve humans’ inner quality: Dalai Lama
The Times Of India, 10 November 2015 CHENNAI: The existing education system is inadequate and needs to be changed in a manner that it improves internal qualities of humans, said Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday. “I have many educationists as friends who also feel the system is not read more →
Taiwan and mainland China in talks? Here are the 5 things you need to know about what Taiwanese people are thinking.
By Austin Wang November 6 – The Washington Post On Saturday, the two Chinas will have a historic encounter: The top leaders of China and Taiwan, Xi Jingping and Ma Ying-jeou respectively, will meet. That hasn’t happened since 1949, when Mao Zedong’s communists took over the mainland, and Chang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government read more →
Tibetan Government in-Exile wants Tibetan eco-system protected
Press Trust of India, 3 November 2015 Guwahati, Nov 3 (PTI) The Tibetan Government in-Exile today called upon the United Nations, the Chinese government and the international community to protect the fragile eco-system and environment of the Tibetan plateau – the roof of the world. Tibetan Government in-Exile Minister Dicki read more →
Mingyur Rinpoche, the millionaire monk who renounced it all
Thursday 22 September 2011 12.39 BST Last modified on Tuesday 3 June 2014 22.31 BST Mary Finnigan /theguardian The Buddhist teacher’s decision to leave his monastery suggests a revival of the principles laid down by the Buddha On first impression, Mingyur Rinpoche seemed to have everything well set up for read more →
China Has Turned Tibetan Plateau Into Vast Military Zone, Claims Core Group
NDTV, 5 November 2015 Guwahati: China has turned the Tibetan Plateau into a “vast military zone” deploying a large number of troops with most of them along the Indian sub-continent, claimed the Core Group for Tibetan Cause (CGTC). “China has turned the once peaceful and buffer state between India and read more →
Karnataka to allow Tibetan refugees to lease land in their own names
Niranjan Kaggere, Bangalore Mirror, 4 November 2015 BANGALORE: They will now hold lands in their own names under leases to grow crops but will not be eligible to transfer, mortgage or pledge leased lands to anyone else Fifty-five-years after taking refuge in Karnataka and India, Tibetan refugees put up at read more →