[AFP/South China Morning Post] China has forbidden German electronic band Kraftwerk from performing at a music festival, more than a decade after they appeared on the bill of a Free Tibet concert, an industry source said on Thursday. Modern Sky records, a Chinese music company, applied to the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Confirmed reports coming out of Tibet say Tulku Athup alias Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche, 47, and his niece, Atse, 25, self-immolated at the former’s residence in Dzogchen monastery in Kham in eastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province) on 6 April last year. Few days (...)
NEW YORK: Nearly sixty Chinese residents of New York area attended a dinner reception held by the Office of Tibet in New York as part of its efforts to reach out to the Chinese people. The gathering was held on 22nd March at Norling Tibetan Restaurant in Jackson Heights. His Holiness the Dalai (...)
Article by: ALLIE SHAH , Star Tribune A photo exhibit of life in Tibet on display at the University of Minnesota this week has outraged local Tibetans who are now staging a counterexhibit. The original exhibit, “Tibet Today: Sights of Western China,” is sponsored by the Chinese Consulate in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday said Chinese-speaking authors have launched targeted attack against Tibetan and Uyghur activists on their Android-based mobile devices. The attack took place at the end of March 2013 and started with the hacking of an e-mail account belonging to a (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Reports coming out of Tibet say a Tibetan man has set himself on fire to protest the Chinese rule in Tibet, taking the total self-immolations to 111. Lhamo Kyab, 43, set himself on fire in Sangchu county (Ch:Xiahe) in Kanlho in north-eastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Gansu (...)
[dalailama.com] Ravangla, Sikkim, India, 25 March 2013 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama had been invited to Sikkim to consecrate the colossal 128 foot hammered copper statue of the Buddha, which he had earlier named Tathagata Tsal, at Ravangla. This morning under sunny blue skies he was escorted (...)
China’s failing policy in Tibet is ‘self-defeating’ by Sophie Richardson How badly does the Chinese government really want to stop Tibetan self-immolations? A campaigner suggests that the rhetoric from Beijing does not match the reality of draconian policy programmes To hear senior Chinese (...)
Buddhism and self-immolation The theology of self-destruction [The Economist] Mar 22nd 2013, 18:11 by B.C. MOST religions have strictures against suicide. But the theological calculus made by religious leaders often seems to change when communities are in a state of bitter conflict, and people (...)