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Panchsheel: A Diplomatic Gimmick or Strategic Surrender? ( A Tibetan Perspective)
By Lobsang Yeshi The year 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the Panchsheel Agreement between India and China and the Governments declared year 2014 as ‘India—China Year of Friendly Exchanges’. For the Tibetans, each such ‘celebration’ or the reiteration of the so-called Panchsheel principles in every Sino-Indian Joint communiqué is read more →
China’s Government: Weak or Strong?
Original Published: 28 April 2014, by Kerry Brown, The Diplomat While foreigners tend to think of the Chinese state as a powerful behemoth, the Chinese people bemoan its weakness. It was a tough question, but it sounded innocuous enough when first asked by a Chinese guest. “Why,” the guest said, read more →
Updated: The Dorje Shugden Conflict: An Interview with Tibetologist Thierry Dodin
[Source: info-buddhism.com] What is the Dorje Shugden conflict actually about? This conflict arose in the 17th century and since then has played out on many levels. In essence, the question is whether the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, – Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Kagyupa and Gelugpa – are equal or whether one read more →
Himachal Pradesh University debates 100 years of Shimla Convention
[The Times of India] SHIMLA: It was 100 years ago that Sir Henry McMahon marked ‘McMahon Line’ as the Sino-Indian border. As the historic decisions was taken during Shimla Convention held in the erstwhile summer capital of India, on Monday Himachal Pradesh University organized a seminar ‘Revisiting Shimla Agreement – 1914′ to read more →
‘Economic engagement the way forward’
[The Tribune] Shimla, May 12: Increased economic engagement between India and China is the only solution to controversial McMahon Line to demarcate international boundaries between India, Tibet and China. The geopolitical and socio-economic situation, demography, governance and strategic issues has changed drastically in the past 100 years. This was stated by read more →
Dalai Lama Urges Outside Inquiry Into Spate of Self-Immolations Among Tibetans
[The New York Times] By Rick Gladstone and Henrik Pryser Libell The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, on Friday called for an outside inquiry into the self-immolations of more than 130 Tibetans in anti-China demonstrations over the past five years, and he suggested that in some cases, such read more →
Unofficial welcome awaits Dalai Lama
(www.newsinenglish.no) May 6, 2014 Public interest in the Dalai Lama’s visit to Oslo this week is so high that police are beefing up security measures and Members of Parliament are being warned that it will be standing-room-only at an “unofficial” reception on Friday. Norway’s government continues to endure harsh criticism read more →
Oslo Snubs the Dalai Lama
Under pressure from China, Norway’s prime minister does not plan to meet the Tibetan religious leader this week. [Asian Wall Street Journal] By MATTEO MECACCI AND ELLEN BORK May 6, 2014 Under pressure from China, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and other key officials have declined to meet the Dalai Lama when read more →
Statement of the Deutsche Buddhistische Ordensgemeinschaft (DBO, German Buddhist Monastic Association) on the Protests against the Dalai Lama by the International Shugden Community (ISC)
Berlin, Schneverdingen, HannoverMay 1st, 2014 The Deutsche Buddhistische Ordensgemeinschaft (DBO) formally dissociates itself from the protests against the Dalai Lama, which are being staged worldwide, and also in Frankfurt (Main). The DBO remains of the conviction that opinions among Buddhists should be expressed in a peaceful, respectful, truthful and reasonable read more →
Tibet Tweets to China and China Tweets Back
By Thubten Samphel, Director, Tibet Policy Institute Published on The Huffington Post, 04/29/2014 Official Chinese view of the Dalai Lama is well known. Successive party officials have called the Tibetan leader a “wolf in monk’s robes” or “a devil with a human face, but with a heart of a beast.” read more →
Norway: Hundreds rally to welcome Dalai Lama
[Views and News from Norway] About 400 people rallied outside the parliament building in Oslo on Tuesday to show their support for the Dalai Lama’s visit in early May. Those gathered voiced their anger at the Norwegian government for cowing to the Chinese and refusing to meet the exiled Tibetan read more →
60 years on: Unforgiving legacy of the Panchsheel Agreement
Jawaharlal Nehru releases a dove as a symbol of peace on November 18, 1954, during a ceremony held on his 65th birthday at the New Delhi stadium. Photograph: Getty Images. It is a dark legacy bequeathed by Nehru to India. In its DNA lies the subconscious fount of India’s schizophrenic read more →
Tibet’s long road to peace with China has an end if suspicions are put aside
South China Morning Post, PUBLISHED : Monday, 28 April, 2014 By Tenzin Norgay (This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as China’s Tibet problem could be solved if it puts aside its long-held suspicions) Modern China has a wide range of problems. Hardly anyone doubts that read more →
Chinese spies keep eye on leading universities
The Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2014 John Garnaut, Asia Pacific editor for Fairfax Media China is building large covert spy networks inside Australia’s leading universities, prompting Australia to strengthen its counter-intelligence capabilities. Chinese intelligence officials have confirmed to Fairfax Media that they are building informant networks to monitor Australia’s read more →
Capitalism and the Dalai Lama
Arthur C. Brooks, Contributing Op-Ed Writer, International New York Times WHAT can Washington, D.C., learn from a Buddhist monk? In early 2013, I traveled with two colleagues to Dharamsala, India, to meet with the Dalai Lama. His Holiness has lived there since being driven from his Tibetan homeland by the read more →