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China’s stressed-out ‘millenials’ embrace Buddhism
By Lu-Hai Liang, CNN, 24 June 2015 Beijing (CNN): Five years ago, Beijinger Robert Zhao went on a trip to Tibet. What he encountered left him confused but intrigued. A science graduate from China’s elite Tsinghua University, he had been taught to mistrust superstition and religion, but in the culture read more →
Integrating Tibet with the World
On course: “China stresses that its bold enterprise is part of its western development plan to elevate the economies of its relatively backward regions.” The picture shows road construction in full swing in Eastern Tibet. Photo: Atul Aneja By Atul Aneja, The Hindu, 13 July 2015 The ambitious Sichuan-Tibet railway read more →
China Opposes US Official’s Meet with the Dalai Lama
Business Standard (PTI) 13 July 2015 China today voiced its opposition over a senior US official meeting with the Dalai Lama on his 80th birthday, asking America to honour its “commitment” to recognising Tibet as part of the country. “China is strongly displeased by and opposed to a senior US read more →
Scientific Proof Of Reincarnation. Yes, The Soul Exists.
Written by Steven Bancarz| A lot of people are resistant to the idea of a “soul” because of how this term has gotten wrapped up in religious superstition and dogma. Some people think it is outright silly. But the concept of consciousness being able to detach from the body offers a read more →
The Beijing paradox
By Shyam Saran, Business Standard, 7 July 2015 China’s unprecedented effort to prepare global public opinion for its rise to pre-eminence A recent visit to Beijing as an invitee to the Fourth World Peace Forum proved to be a welcome opportunity to feel the pulse of an emerging great power. The forum is the read more →
Happy Birthday to Your Holiness
By Richard Moore, The Huffington Post, 8 July 2015 I am delighted and honoured to say I have met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet on a number of occasions both in Ireland and when I visited him in India. I have had the wonderful privilege of hosting read more →
China ‘harvesting Falun Gong prisoners’ organs’
Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas in Perth. Picture: Colin Murty Source: News Corp Australia Chinese officials continue to harvest organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners as they lie on operating tables with little pain relief, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas will tell a conference in Perth today. Mr read more →
Hillary Clinton accuses China of ‘trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move’
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has accused China of stealing commercial secrets and “huge amounts of government information” and of trying to “hack into everything that doesn’t move in America”. Ms Clinton’s language on China appeared to be far stronger than that usually used by president Barack Obama’s Democratic administration. read more →
7 Signs of a Cult and a Dangerous Nexus: Who are the anti-Dalai Lama protesters?
By Tsering Wangchuk, Press Officer, DIIR, Central Tibetan Administration with contribution from Mr. Kim Se Hoon. Student at Univ. of Rochester Many in America will remember the gruesome way that some pseudo-religious cult demonstrated their bizarre notions and beliefs by attempting mass suicides in the 90’s. The 39 followers of read more →
Tensions rise as China’s taxi drivers and factory workers strike in record numbers
China’s taxi drivers and factory workers took the lead in staging strikes and protests across the country in the second quarter of 2015 as threats to their livelihood continued to mount. Construction workers continued their protests over wage arrears but numbers were down slightly compared with earlier in the year. read more →
Saving Tibet’s unique heritage
By Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times, 7 July 2015 BERLIN – The Dalai Lama is the Tibetans’ god-king and also the embodiment of India’s leverage on the core issue with China — Tibet. But with the longest-living Dalai Lama having turned 80 this month, the future of both Tibet, and the read more →
Kundun: The Presence of an Absence
The Huffington Post, 7 July 2015 By Dechen Pemba, Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth We Tibetans have many terms of respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Yeshe Norbu, Gongsachog, Chenrezig, Gyalwa Rinpoche, Kundun… These are the names we use when we speak amongst ourselves and these were also read more →
The Dalai Lama Talks About Pope Francis, Aging and Heartbreak With TIME
Tibet’s exiled government and Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama stands on stage before making a speech to an audience at the ESS Stadium in Aldershot, southern England, Monday, June 29, 2015. Before the speech on Monday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader inaugurated the Buddhist Community Centre UK. (AP Photo/Matt read more →
Tibet’s tough road ahead
The Dalai Lama prepares to speak in Aldershot, southern England, in June. (Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Carl Gershman July 5, The Washington Post ( Carl Gershman is president of the National Endowment for Democracy ) The 80th birthday Monday of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, is an occasion read more →
Dalai Lama, Anything But “A Simple Buddhist Monk”
By Shashi Tharoor, NDTV, 6 July 2015 When the United Nations convened a Millennium World Peace Summit of religious leaders at its headquarters in 2000, one major religious figure was conspicuous by his absence. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibetan Buddhism, had not been asked to read more →