Saturday, November 23 2024

Chinese painter portrays Tibet self-immolators – AP

  By GILLIAN WONG Associated Press BEIJING — Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects – men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive – have one thing in common: They …

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Concludes Teachings in Sarnath

  Sarnath, Varanasi, India 10 January 2013–The weather was milder and the sky was blue for the first time in the morning since he arrived in Sarnath, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his way early to the teaching pavilion. He spent an hour performing the preparatory rites for …

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UN Urges China to Urgently Address Longstanding Grievances of Tibetans

  GENEVA (2 November 2012) – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged Chinese authorities to promptly address the longstanding grievances that have led to an alarming escalation in desperate forms of protest, including self-immolations, in Tibetan areas. The UN human rights chief said she …

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