How India Is Squandering Its Top Export: The Buddha
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, The Huffington Post | April 6, 2015 India and Nepal gave the world one of its most
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A Day of Fruitful Tibetan-Japanese Exchanges
[dalailama.com] Tokyo, Japan, 5 April 2015 – Despite light drizzle and a grey sky, today began on a bright note with His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to the newly relocated Liaison Office of his Representative for East-Asia.
Read moreIndia to set up consulate in Chengdu as China says no to Lhasa
K.J.M. Varma, PTI | March 31, 2015
India’s proposal to re-establish a mission in the sensitive Tibetan capital Lhasa did not get a favourable response
India is set to open its third consulate in China in the southwestern city of Chengdu after its proposal to re-establish a mission in the sensitive Tibetan capital of Lhasa which was closed down during the 1962 war did not get a favourable response.
Read moreTibetan Leader: Chinese Government Can’t Choose Next Dalai Lama
Dr Lobsang Sangay, TIME | March 30, 2015
Since 1959, when the current Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet, his tireless efforts for freedom for Tibetans and peace in the world have irked and outraged the Chinese Communist Party.
Read moreThe Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers
By MICHAEL BUCKLEY, The New York Times | MARCH 30, 2015
NEW DELHI — CHINA has more than 26,000 large dams, more than the rest of the world combined. They feed its insatiable demand for energy and supply water for mining, manufacturing and agriculture.
Read moreChinese court jails Uygur for 6 years for growing beard
DHARAMSALA, Mar 30: A court in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble” and growing a beard, a practise discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meets Foreign Visitors to Dharamsala
[dalailama.com] Dharamsala, HP, India, 30 March 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama today met with an estimated 1100 people from 56 different countries in Asia, Australasia, Europe, North and South America and Africa.
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Delhi plays Buddhist card in Lanka to send signal to China
Sushant Singh, The Indian Express |March 19, 2015
Moving to deepen its engagement with Colombo and counter Beijing’s influence in the region, New Delhi is hosting a dialogue on vinaya (code of conduct) between high-ranking Theravada monks from Sri Lanka and counterparts of the Nalanda tradition — the first dialogue at this level between the two Buddhist traditions.
Read moreAnnual Report Shows Deteriorating Human Rights Conditions in China
By Lu Chen, Epoch Times | March 18, 2015
If China’s communist regime has any intention of reform, its recent record, despite the official hype surrounding its anti-corruption campaign, certainly isn’t showing it.
Read moreChina’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife
Chris Buckley, The New York Times | March 11, 2015
HONG KONG — Chinese Communist Party leaders are afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned that he must reincarnate, and on their terms.
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