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Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy
Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy
Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →
China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet
By NICOLE PERLROTHAPRIL 10, 2015 A tool researchers call the Great Cannon is said to have redirected traffic intended for the Chinese search engine Baidu. Photo Credit: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out read more →
China’s Crackdowns in Tibet
Rights groups are pushing for international action on the serial use of lethal force to crush Buddhist dissent. By Kevin Holden April 14, 2015, The Diplomat The United Nations is set to receive evidence that Chinese People’s Armed Police troops have repeatedly opened fire on unarmed Tibetan protesters calling for read more →
An avatar Beijing would love to control
By Jayadeva Ranade, Hindustan Times, 10 April 2015 The Communist Party of China has not been able to undermine the influence of the Dalai Lama among Tibetans. The issues of Tibet and the Dalai Lama have been accorded higher listing among the domestic priorities of the Chinese leadership under President read more →
Every Suffering Has a Meaning
By Ming Xia –Speech at the Tibetan National Uprising Day in New York and New Jersey– Fifty-six years ago, the Dalai Lama was forced to leave his people and homeland behind, and started his life in exile at age 24. This is suffering. Reaching age 80, His Holiness the Dalai read more →
Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief
AFP April 8, 2015, 3:47 pm Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief Beijing (AFP) – China’s top official in Tibet vowed on Wednesday to evaluate Buddhist monks and nuns for their “patriotism” and install national flags in monasteries to strengthen ideological control in the region. The read more →
Over 100 monks and nuns expelled, repression continues in Tibet
Friday, 03 April 2015 19:10 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International Dharamshala — Emerging sources say Chinese authorities have expelled more than 100 monks and nuns from their monasteries and nunneries in Driru County, eastern Tibet and seven monks severely beaten and held after staging protest. A newly built nunnery has read more →
Symposium honours late professor who pioneered modern Tibetan studies
(TibetanReview.net, Apr08, 2015) – A symposium was held in New Delhi on Apr 7 in honour of late Professor Dawa Norbu who had pioneered exile Tibetan scholarship in modern academic fields. He was best known initially for his editorship of the Tibetan Review magazine in the 1970s and, later, read more →
China cannot believe its luck over new investment bank
Tom Mitchell in Beijing, Financial Times, 6 April 2015 The Chinese government can scarcely believe its own luck. Heaping Asian insult upon Capitol Hill injury, last week Benjamin Netanyahu committed Israel to join Beijing’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. While there is no love lost between the Israeli prime minister read more →
Tibet party boss says temples must be propaganda centres
World | Fri Apr 3, 2015 8:05am BST BEIJING (Reuters) – Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centres for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to “revere” science and appreciate the party’s love, the troubled region’s top Chinese appointed official said. Rights groups and exiles say the officially atheist party tramples on Tibetans’ read more →
Legacy preserved in dolls
ROHINI KEJRIWAL, MARCH 8, 2015, DHNS Toy culture Some of the traditional dolls created by Dolls4Tibet. Dolls4Tibet, based out of Dharamsala, is a group where women who are Tibetan refugees or local Indians create dolls that are not only beautiful but also stand for a cause. In fact, it’s one read more →
Tibetan Buddhist leader blazes an innovative trail
The Washington Post By Joshua Eaton | Religion News Service March 27 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Wrapped in the maroon and gold robes of a Tibetan monk, Ogyen Trinley Dorje isn’t what most people picture when they think of innovation.To his followers, Dorje is the 17th Karmapa — the leader of the Karma read more →
China Is Urged to Confront Its Own History
At center, Son Sen, the Khmer Rouge defense minister, with Chinese advisers in 1977.Credit Documentation Center of Cambodia archives By Dan Levin, (Sinosphere) New York Times, 30 March 2015 The tour guide outside the bloodstained classrooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the high school in the Cambodian capital of read more →
The Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers
By MICHAEL BUCKLEYMARCH 30, 2015 Photo Credit: Matt Chase NEW DELHI — CHINA has more than 26,000 large dams, more than the rest of the world combined. They feed its insatiable demand for energy and supply water for mining, manufacturing and agriculture. In 2011, when China was already generating more than a read more →