By Calum Macleod| Religion News Service, The Washington Post Monday, November 7,4:12 PM SERTHAR— Breathless but beaming, Sheng Zisu sounds confident after five months in a maze-like Buddhist encampment high on the eastern Tibetan plateau, nearly 400 miles from the nearest city. “Look around. They could never find me here,” Sheng, 27, said of [...]
By Lobsang Sangay The Washington Post |Post Opinions Published on November 3, 2011 Eleven Tibetans have set fire to themselves in eastern Tibet since March. Six have died. The Chinese government describes them as “terrorists in disguise.” The reality is that their desperate acts were a scathing indictment of the People’s Republic of China’s [...]
A wave of self-immolation by young men in Tibet is a warning to China that per-emptive oppression can lead to desperate acts Ed Douglas guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 October 2011 In 1951, Phuntsok Wangyal was a young Tibetan communist determined to bring much-needed social and political reform to his homeland. He marched in the advance contingent [...]
By Peter Foster | Telegraph London |September 29th, 2011 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/peterfoster/ When it comes to Chinese diplomacy, the idea of “non-interference in internal affairs” is an article of faith. A White Paper on the China’s “peaceful rise”, published by Beijing last month, professed the following: The Chinese people… will never allow any external forces to interfere [...]
The China Beat July 27, 2011 In early 2010, when President Obama met with the Dalai Lama, this made a considerable splash both in the news media and in diplomatic circles, and there have been various repercussions from Beijing’s side when other foreign leaders have met with the Tibetan figure. Obama’s July 16 meeting with [...]
– Lobsang T. Namru, Minneapolis, MN The recent election of Dr. Lobsang Sangay to the helm of Tibetan exile administration and the process leading to was historic in the annals Tibetan politics, and exemplary by any measure of a democratic institution. Weren’t we excited by the enthusiasm and participation from the Tibetan people from [...]
by Kelsang Gyaltsen, Envoy of H. H. the Dalai Lama Posted on 20 Juni 2011 Once again the small Tibetan world in exile seems to be torn apart by an emotional and political dispute over the devolution of the administrative and political powers of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the democratically elected organs [...]
Tibetans in exile build new institutions as their spiritual leader leaves politics. By AMY YEE The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Asia) June 10, 2011 The Dalai Lama’s official role in the Tibetan exile administration has ended. The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), based in Dharamsala in northern India, last week finalized changes to its charter that [...]
MIND MOVES: Visit by Dalai Lama was an inspiration to us all, writes TONY BATES Tony Bates, The Irish Times, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 HE CAME, he bowed and he conquered us with his smile. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. His presence inspired us and touched something deeply human in each of us. He embodied [...]
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Secular diplomacy powers Tibetans’ global outreach
Mayank Chhaya | December 2, 2011| The Dalai Lama’s political successor and Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has significantly stepped up his outreach as the Tibetan issue slides further into global amnesia. A dozen self-immolations by desperate Tibetans since February, 2009, including 11 since March this year alone, has not done much to focus the world’s [...]