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Process to select the 15th Dalai Lama to begin in next one or two years: Dalai Lama
Addressing the annual Rajendra Mathur memorial lecture organised by the Editor’s Guild of India on August 9, the Dalai Lama said the ‘preparation work’ to select his successor, the 15th Dalai Lama, will begin in as early as ‘one or two years’. By Sandeep Unnithan | Posted by Ankit Misra read more →
Dalai Lama must come (Part 2)
With the controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama visit to Botswana gaining momentum, I took time to go through some historical archives and talk with some history scholars on whether Tibet has been an integral part of China or not. By Solly Rakgomo, Mmegi Online – 10 August 2017 I also read more →
Tibetan Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay apprises Australian MPs about rights violations
Newsx, 10 August 2017 Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has apprised Australian parliamentarians about the “ongoing religious repression and violation of basic human rights in Tibet”, his office said on Thursday. Sangay briefed the human rights subcommittee of the Australian parliament on Wednesday in Canberra about the ground situation inside read more →
Spirit of Hindi-Chini bhai bhai way forward says Dalai Lama on the ongoing Doklam standoff
Shubhajit Roy, Indian Express, August 10, 2017 More than 50 days since the border standoff began at Doklam, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said that it is “not a very serious issue”, and that the two countries have to live as neighbours. The Tibetan spiritual leader said there are periods read more →
Exiled president calls on international community to help Tibet heal
Lawyers Weekly – 8 August 2017 The sikyong and leader of the Tibetan Government in Exile, has been received in Sydney by a group of lawyers associated with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Australia at the weekend. Dr Sangay (pictured) spoke to the group as part of his read more →
Talks are only way for India, China to end standoff, Dalai Lama says
Malini Menon, Reuters, 9 August 2017 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China will have to resolve their prolonged military standoff in a remote Himalayan region through talks, the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday, ruling out the chance of war because it would be destructive to both parties. Indian and read more →
Swami Vivekananda to Dalai Lama: A legacy marches on
DNA, Yogesh Pawar, 9 August 2017 Current geopolitical equations in South Asia may have created quite a buzz around His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s arrival at the Mumbai campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences to deliver the inaugural lecture and launch a special course in ‘Secular Ethics’ on August read more →
China Tears Down the Tibetan City in the Sky
Source: http://thediplomat.com China is demolishing homes and evicting thousands from Larung Gar, the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist institution. At the eastern end of the vast Tibetan Plateau lies a sprawling monastery named Larung Gar, which is the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world and a monumental landmark to Tibetan culture, read more →
The Chinese Are About to Take Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to the Cleaners
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast By James Mann, The Daily Beast – For a good example of how our system of government is in danger of devolving into a quasi-monarchy, consider this: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, will be visiting China this fall to lay the groundwork for a subsequent visit read more →
Leader in exile: Tibetan president calls for Australia’s support
Tibetan president Lobsang Sangay in Sydney on Saturday. Photo: Brook MitchellBy By Finbar O’Mallon – Sydney Morning Herald – 6 August 2017 The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile called on the Australian government to lobby for full Tibetan autonomy in China. Dr Lobsang Sangay is set to make a speech read more →
How Mao and Khrushchev fought over China-India border dispute
Chinese leader Mao Zedong with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in August 1958. Photo 1958 South China Morning Post – 5 August 2017 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited China at the end of September 1959 to hold a summit with the Chinese leadership. A little over a month earlier, several Indian read more →
China Tears Down the Tibetan City in the Sky
Steve Shaw, The Diplomat, 3 August 2017 Read the original story here. At the eastern end of the vast Tibetan Plateau lies a sprawling monastery named Larung Gar, which is the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world and a monumental landmark to Tibetan culture, religion, and history. It is read more →
What will be the Dalai Lama effect on Botswana?
Mmegi Online, 28 July 2017 It has been reported that Chinese Embassy officials in Botswana have been “scrambling to stop Botswana from opening its doors to the Dalai Lama.” Beijing has indicated that allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Botswana would set back relations between the two countries. This has read more →
Tibetan Government in Exile says Chinese action a reflection of its expansionist policy
Economic Times – 02 August 2017 The comments on Dokalam by the highest political authority of Tibetan government are significant and are likely to cause discomfort in Beijing. NEW DELHI: India-based Tibetan Government In Exile (TGIE), for the first time since the Dokalam standoff, has come out with a public read more →
Theme for the Chinese dream
ROCKY ROAD TO PEACE: The highway in north Sikkim needs upkeep. Photo by the writer By Pravin Sawhney – Tribune THE crucial meeting between the National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Chinese leadership has not resolved the Doklam crisis. The two sides discussed “bilateral and major problems”, suggesting that read more →