By Gloria Dawn Royall , Virginia
I add my voice to the cry for Tibetan AUTONOMY!! For decades, through imprisonment,torture and draconinan restrictions on activites and thought, the Chinese government has repeatedly violated Tibetan’s basic human rights and denied Tibetan’s religious freedom. Over the past few years, the Chinese have taken sledgehammers to large areas […]
The invitation of foreign diplomats, by China, to visit Lhasa, on face value, may seem like a “step in the right direction”. Yet for Tibetans all over the world recalling past, this trip is nothing new; same comedy with new actors.
China has always been inviting pro-China diplomats to visit Tibet, a model minority territory, since […]
Claude Arpi is an expert on the history of Tibet, China and the subcontinent. He was born in Angoulême, France. After graduating from Bordeaux University in 1974, he decided to live in India and settled in the South where he is still staying with his Indian wife and young daughter. He is the author of […]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 21:04 By Robert Thurman Washington Post
We are at a moment of great significance for humanity, at the beginning of this new century, which could be either a horrendous time of natural and man-made mega-disasters or the greatest century yet of environmental restoration and peaceful global community. Of all […]
By SIMON ROBINSON/KATHMANDU
Phuntsok arrived in this polluted, traffic-crammed city six days ago, dusty and weary after a 15-day journey from Tibet, a small duffle and a handful of clothes his only possessions. He was happy to have made it out, he says. Or rather he was happy until he phoned home […]
In this day and age, people around the world, and not only in the USA have picked up the habit of rejecting personal responsibility for their own actions. This is nothing new for Buddhists who see such “passing of the buck” as a part of the delusion that binds beings to their sufferings.
In our […]
Tuesday , March 18, 2008 at 16 : 36 by Tendor
As China’s so-called “surrender” deadline for Tibetan protesters approached, dozens of Tibetan students in Beijing held a candle light vigil at the Central University for Nationalities.
Tuesday , March 18, 2008 at 19 : 46 CNN IBN Blog
In the recent days, the world has witnessed the largest protest in Tibet since 1989. Since the March 10 Commemoration of the People’s Uprising Movement of Tibet, various confirmed accounts of protests, arrests, injuries, deaths, […]
Newsweek IndianExpress.com Friday, March 21, 2008 by Sumit Ganguly
India’s response to the harsh Chinese crackdown on legitimate Tibetan protests in Lhasa and elsewhere has been dispiriting. In Parliament the seasoned politician and foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee could only express distress at the plight of the hapless Tibetans.
March 21, 2008 by Eileen Weintraub
It is quite upsetting as Tibet is overwhelmed by Chinese tanks and police once again right now. We are having protests against the Chinese even in Seattle. The Olympics will be a forum for everyone who has grievances against the Chinese . And who doesn’t! Stephen Spielberg quit as artistic […]