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Japanese Legislators Affirm Support for Tibet’s Exiled Autonomous Government
By Dr. Monika Chansoria Japan Forward 10 May 2021 The six million Tibetans suffering Beijing’s relentless repression inside Tibet, and the Tibetans living in forced exile in India and across the world, led by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, have had but scant hope for preserving their identity. Yet, the read more →
Tibetans in Lhasa told to restrict religious practice during holy month
International Campaign for Tibet May 12, 2021 The Lhasa City Buddhist Association has circulated a notice dated May 9, 2021 urging Tibetan Buddhists in the Tibetan capital to restrict their traditional religious practice during the holy fourth month of the Tibetan calendar, which began on May 12. The notice states the reason read more →
MISSION: JOY – FINDING HAPPINESS IN TROUBLED TIMES
Tribecafilm Visit Tribecafilm.com for details Academy Award®-winning director Louie Psihoyos returns to Tribeca with his latest film, a profound and jubilant exploration of the remarkable friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Inspired by the international bestseller The Book of Joy, the documentary welcomes viewers into intimate conversations between two men whose resistance read more →
Doubts emerge over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s chances of securing a third term
12 May 2021, 08:28 AM IST Mint As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s hard-line policies beyond Chinese shores are squandering Beijing’s soft power, doubts are emerging over Xi securing an unprecedented third term. The G7 last week called on Xi on everything from actions on Taiwan, incursions in cyberspace, human-rights abuses, read more →
No Religion in Tibetan Schools, China Tells Parents
Reported by Lhuboom for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Parents of Tibetan schoolchildren may no longer carry rosaries, prayer wheels, or other religious items onto school grounds, Chinese authorities in one Tibetan county say, as China continues to enact policies wearing away read more →
Tibet set for tough changes
Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/ Tibet set for tough changes Infrastructure expansion and cultural assimilation plans to have consequences Jayadeva Ranade President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy China’s recently concluded national-level meetings, held in Beijing in March every year, portend dramatic changes in the social, cultural and economic landscape of Tibet, along read more →
China deletes 2 million online posts for ‘historical nihilism’ as Communist Party centenary nears
Jun Mai SCMP 11 May 2021 China’s internet regulator has said it has overseen the deletion of more than 2 million posts containing “harmful” discussion of history, amid preparations to mark the Communist Party’s centenary in July. “For a while, some people have disseminated harmful information with historical nihilism on the internet, under read more →
Chinese military probed weaponising coronavirus in 2015, claim leaked documents
PTI | May 10, 2021 | Updated 00:51 IST Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons, according to media reports referring to documents obtained by the US State Department. According to ‘The Sun’ read more →
When Covid Hit, China Was Ready to Tell Its Version of the Story
By Ben Smith May 9, 2021 In the fall of 2019, just before global borders closed, an international journalists’ association decided to canvass its members about a subject that kept coming up in informal conversations: What is China doing? What it found was astonishing in its scope. Journalists from countries as tiny as read more →
Social, Emotional and Ethical (SEE) Learning: We need to SEE beyond STEM learning
By Vikram Chaudhary Financial Express May 10, 2021 Alfiya Shaikh is a Grade 9 student at the Matoshri English Medium School, Pune (run by the Akanksha Education Fund). She used to get irritated frequently, even over trivial things. Today, she has learnt how to manage her anger, cope with difficult read more →
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Foreign Policy 7 May 2021 In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, read more →
U.S., Russia, China poke each other at U.N. Security Council
Reuters 7 May 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a veiled swipe at Russia and China on Friday during a U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, warning that the actions of some big powers portrays impunity to others. The meeting on multilateralism, convened read more →
Beijing accuses G7 ministers of interfering in China’s affairs
Vincent Ni The Guardian 6 May 2021 China has rejected accusations of human rights abuse and economic coercion, made by G7 foreign ministers, accusing them of “blatantly meddling” in China’s internal affairs, calling their remarks groundless. “Attempts to disregard the basic norms of international relations and to create various excuses to read more →
G7 scolds China and Russia over threats, bullying, rights abuses
Reuters 6 May 2021 The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s read more →
A Short Buddhist Teaching: Emptiness and Compassion as Antidotes to Destructive Emotions
Science and wisdom of emotions summit blogsbloWhat You’ll Learn In this short and potent 8 minute teaching, listen as His Holiness speaks about his personal daily practice of generating bodhicitta – “altruistic awakening mind” – which is said to naturally fulfill “the benefit of oneself and others.” Explore how we read more →