[By Melinda Liu / The Newsweek Magazine] Oct 15, 2012 1:00 AM EDT Can Beijing’s incoming leaders resolve Tibet’s crisis and stop the spate of fiery suicides? Students of Buddhist history and literature know well the ancient fables about Buddha’s early incarnations, known as the Jataka Tales. In (...)
A Tibetan man has died after setting himself on fire in protest against the Chinese government near Tsoe Monastery at Tsoe in north-eastern Tibet’s Kanlho prefecture (Ch: Gansu Province). Tamdin Dorjee, 52, set himself on fire around 1:00 PM (Tibet time) on Saturday (13 October). His body was (...)
AHMEDABAD: Expressing their solidarity with the Tibetan freedom struggle by joining the flame of truth relay in Ahmedabad, Indian supporters, including Gandhians, said truth and freedom will definitely triumph over China’s repressive rule in Tibet. Hundreds of people, including Tibetan students (...)
[The Economist/13 October 2012] Strangers in a strange land LHASA: IN FRONT of the Jokhang temple at the heart of the Tibetan capital, excited members of a Chinese tour group pose in their new cowboy hats and snap photos to post on their microblogs for friends back home. Not far away, others (...)
DELHI: The Flame of Truth reaches Delhi on 6 October and was held with a brief function organised at Samyeling Tibetan Colony. Prior to that, Tibetan community based in Delhi met several times over a month to arrange the relay, which covers all over Delhi. On 8 October, the relay was started (...)
DHARAMSHALA: One of the two Tibetan monks from Labrang Monastery in northeastern Tibet’s Labrang region, Jigme Gyatso, who was arrested for his role in exposing the Chinese government crackdown on peaceful Tibetan protesters across Tibet in 2008, is in critical situation. He and Golog Jigme were (...)
The revised rates in respect of services towards Identity Certificate (IC), such as issue of fresh IC; issue of fresh ICs whose validity has expired; issue of additional booklet; issue of IC towards lost/damaged ones etc.) has been revised from 01 October 2012 due to the revision in the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A US Congressional report on China has warned that any attempts by the Chinese government, as advocated by a key communist party official earlier this year, to abrogate ethnic minority status could adversely affect the Tibetan people’s cultural and linguistic identity and further (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Meeting a group of students, including some from China, at the College of William & Mary in Virginia yesterday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama told them the Tibetan people are seeking genuine autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution and that they should not be (...)
[The Associated Press] BEIJING: Cases of people being forcibly evicted from their homes and land have risen significantly in China, becoming the single greatest source of public discontent and a serious threat to social and political stability in the country, Amnesty International said (...)