China angered as Filipino protesters visit South China Sea island
BEIJING (Reuters) – China expressed anger on Monday after a group of Filipino protesters landed on a disputed Philippine-held island in the disputed South China Sea.
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Police for tighter security at Dalai Lama’s palace
Pratibha Chauhan/Tribune News Service Shimla, December, 30: The state police have sought additional funds and manpower to beef up security
Read moreGetting personal with the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama, slightly stooped and with a grin across his clean-shaven face, plays with a Hindu guru’s beard in Maharashtra. Next, he holds an emaciated leprosy patient in New Delhi, his hands gently touching the man’s cheeks. Thereafter, he stands tall, his eyebrows arched and his mouth slightly ajar, while addressing a large audience at the main temple in Dharamsala.
Read moreCongress journal lauds Vallabhbhai Patel, blames Jawaharlal Nehru for Kashmir and Tibet issues
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Articles in a Congress mouthpiece questioning Jawaharlal Nehru’s Kashmir and China policy and calling Sonia Gandhi’s father a “fascist soldier” today left the party squirming in embarrassment, forcing its editor Sanjay Nirupam to apologize and sack its editorial content in-charge.
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China Passes Anti-terrorism Law That Critics Fear May Overreach
BEIJING — China’s legislature approved an antiterrorism law on Sunday after months of international controversy, including criticism from human rights groups, business lobbies and President Obama.
Read moreSikyong inaugurates leadership workshop
Over three hundred Tibetan students from India and Nepal joined a leadership workshop in a local Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, that is the seat of the Tibetan administration in exile.
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Japan’s Buddhists want Amazon to end ‘rent-a-monk’ service
By Mike Firn, Tokyo/The Telegraph
Japan’s Buddhists want Amazon to stop offering its rent-a-monk service in the country because it harms the religion’s public image.
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China officially ends three-decade-old ‘one child’ policy
Beijing: China officially ended its one child policy on Sunday with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.
The change, which was announced in October by the ruling Communist Party, takes effect from January 1, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche dies aged 90
His Eminence Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, the head of Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, has left the world on December 23, 2015 in Bodhgaya, where Buddha attained enlightenment over 2550 years ago.
Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche (born 1926) was a Tibetan lama and the Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism since 2012. He received the highest Dzogchen teachings from Polu Khenpo Dorje, a direct disciple of Khenpo Ngakchung
China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama
ALDERSHOT, England – Thousands of Buddhists from all over Britain packed into the Aldershot football stadium southwest of London on June 29, quietly waiting under a hot sun to see the Dalai Lama.
Just outside the turnstiles, another group of Buddhists awaited the Tibetan spiritual leader.
“False Dalai Lama, stop lying, false Dalai Lama, stop lying!” they chanted over and over through megaphones, drummers pounding out a rhythmic tempo. When he spoke, only snippets of his remarks could be heard above the cacopho
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