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» Mevon Peton School students hold open dialogue with Kalon Tripa... - 02-July-2010
Mevon Peton School students hold open dialogue with Kalon Tripa July 02, 2010 Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) June 30, 2010 Dharamshala - Mevon Peton School students held an open dialogue with the Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche on Saturday, 26th June in their school near Lower Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharamsala. Kalon Tripa in simple terms explained the "three trainings of the mind" to the students of sixth and seventh standards. The students asked questions ranging from the hot topic of election of next Kalon Tripa to environment issues to women's power. Students of 10 to 13 years old asked questions regarding Kyigudo earthquake relief and if aid was received from the PRC government. A girl named Ngawag Wangmo asked, - Why is Tibetan language very important?." Kalon Tripa said because Tibetan language has originated from Sanskrit, Tibetan Buddhism from the Nalanda tradition can be studied through Tibetan language. The Tibetan language has the lar

» After Chinese Re-education, Monk Regrets Action - 02-July-2010
After Chinese Re-education, Monk Regrets Action July 02, 2010 By EDWARD WONG The New York Times June 29, 2010 LHASA, Tibet - The young monk once again found himself in front of microphones and television cameras. It was much the same as on March 28, 2008, when the monk, Norgye, and dozens of fellow monks barged into a temple chamber where foreign journalists were being escorted around by Chinese government officials. The monks had then cried out, ?Tibet is not free.? This time, on Tuesday, Norgye had a different message: he had been punished through patriotic re-education, and he had repented. "I wasn?t beaten or tortured," he said. "We had to learn more about the law. Through education about the law, I realized what we had done in the past was wrong and was against the law." Norgye, 29, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, was speaking in the ancient inner sanctum of Lhasa?s Jokhang Temple, the holiest shrine in Tibetan Buddhism. During the 10-minute interview

» Tibetan Parliament express gratitude to Italian and European MPs for raising Tibet issue... - 02-July-2010
Tibetan Parliament express gratitude to Italian and European MPs for raising Tibet issue July 02, 2010 by Tenzin Norbu, TPiE Secretariat Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) June 30, 2010 Dharamshala - The Tibetan Parliament in Exile sent letters to Honourable Mr. Matteo Meccaci, MP Italy and Honourable Mr. Thomas Mann, MEP Germany, Co-Chairs of the newly established International Network of Parliamentarians on Tibet (INPaT) expressing gratitude for having raised issues of Tibet with the World leaders and for having urged the leaders of G8 countries to take a proactive role in achieving a negotiated solution to the crisis in Tibet through dialogue between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama's envoys. In a letter to Prime Minister of Canada, INPaT strongly appreciated the concerns of Canada on the issue of Tibet. The letter categorically stated that the Dalai Lama's Middle Way Approach seeks to secure genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people within the scope of the constitution of

» In face of worker unrest, China launches 'Strike-Hard' campaign... - 02-July-2010
In face of worker unrest, China launches 'Strike-Hard' campaign July 02, 2010 Epoch Times June 30, 2010 A wave of strikes in Chinese factories recently has highlighted the lack of authentic rights for Chinese workers and other inequities in Chinese society. In response, the regime is launching a ?Strike-Hard? campaign. According to China analysts, the recent wave of strikes is a reflection of simmering social discontent and unrest as a result of social inequality, injustice, and rising inflation. Many of the striking workers are not only demanding pay raises, but are also asking for independent unions. If the strikes escalate they may threaten China's position as the factory of the world, and thus threaten the communist regime?s popular legitimacy and survival. However, experts say that responding to the workers demands with brute force will not work. On June 13 the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced that it will launch a seven-month-long "Strike-Hard" campaign to

» China's hard line wins conformity but not hearts and minds... - 02-July-2010
China's hard line wins conformity but not hearts and minds July 02, 2010 Deadly violence in Tibet two years ago has left an occupied city in its wake. JOHN GARNAUT, LHASA The Age June 30, 2010 IN MARCH 2008, after bloody riots erupted across the Tibetan plateau, a group of monks stormed a Chinese-government-led tour of foreign journalists at Jokhang Temple. ''We want freedom ? they are telling lies,'' said the monks, saying they had been falsely accused of causing the carnage. Yesterday, on another tightly controlled media tour, a Jokhang administrator agreed to present one of those monks. ''I have not been beaten. I had to learn more about the law,'' said shy 29-year-old Norgye. ''Through law education I realised what I had done.'' Norgye's impromptu testimony, relayed through a government interpreter, provided some evidence that the government's patriotic education blitz is bringing monks to heel. The re-education campaign has come with a massive security blitz, which a US congressi

» Football: Lhasa United vs The Marmots - 02-July-2010
Football: Lhasa United vs The Marmots July 02, 2010 Claude Arpi www.claudearpi.blogspot.com June 30, 2010 In continuation with my post of yesterday on football in Tibet, I post today some abstracts of Chapman's notes. While in Tibet, Freddie Spencer Chapman, the Private Secretary of Sir Basil Gould, the Political Officer in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet kept the British Mission Diary (he also took some of the earliest pictures of Roof of the World). An entry on November 9th 1936 mentions: "First round of seven-a-side football. It was uncomfortably hot playing. Every day now the temperature rises well above 60 [degrees] F. but at night there are ten to fifteen degrees of frost" (Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part IX p. 1, written by Chapman). On an other occasion, Chapman recounts: "Today we were challenged to a game of 'Soccer' by Lhasa United, a team picked from Tibetan, Ladaki (Mohammedan) and Nepalese sides. They turned out in garish Harlequin-coloured shirts. Af

» London's Tibet festival to open with Road to Peace - 02-July-2010
London's Tibet festival to open with Road to Peace July 02, 2010 By Sam Radclyffe Screen Daily (UK) June 30, 2010 The third edition of the Tibet Film Festival, based in London, kicks off July 1 with the international premiere of Road to Peace, including a Q&A with director Leon Stuparich and the Dalai Lama?s UK representative, Thubten Samdub. The festival will take place in London throughout July - the month of the Dalai Lama?s 75th birthday - before going on tour from August. The programme also takes in the UK premiere of Dirk Simon?s When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun and a performance by soundtrack contributor Damien Rice. Offshoot events include a performance by poet John Hegley, a music event and a photography exhibition looking at the issues of climate change and water on the Tibetan Plateau. The festival is a non-profit initiative and this year supports the Tibet House Trust and relief efforts towards the recent earthquake in Kyegudo, in the Kham region of eastern Tibet.

» China denies military exercise aimed at U.S. - 02-July-2010
China denies military exercise aimed at U.S. July 02, 2010 Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Paul Tait Reuters June 29, 2010 BEIJING - China denied on Tuesday media reports that an artillery drill in the East China Sea was in response to a planned military exercise between South Korea and the United States. The 6-day, live ammunition exercise starting on Wednesday in the East China Sea off China's coast was seen by some analysts as a "response to a (planned) joint exercise between the United States and Republic of Korea navies in the Yellow Sea," said the China Daily, the country's official English-language newspaper. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said there was no such link and a Chinese military officer said the timing was coincidental. "This is a regular military exercise," the spokesman Qin told a regular news conference. "This is not related to the situation on the Korean Peninsula." Li Daguang, a professor at China's National

» Germany Cracks Down on Chinese Regime's Spying - 02-July-2010
Germany Cracks Down on Chinese Regime's Spying July 02, 2010 By Gisela Sommer Epoch Times June 30, 2010 An espionage incident only weeks prior to chancellor Angela Merkel?s planned China visit may be threatening the bilateral relations between Berlin and Beijing said German news magazine Spiegel Online in a June 26 article. Just days earlier, China?s intelligence gathering activities were prominently highlighted in a report issued by Germany?s Ministry of the Interior. Germany?s Federal Prosecutor?s office is investigating two high-ranking Chinese officials on allegations of espionage, and the matter could make Angela Merkel?s upcoming China visit more difficult. According to information obtained by the ,i>Spiegel, Federal Prosecutors are investigating two Chinese individuals on accusations of spying against practitioners of Falun Gong in Germany. One of the accused is said to hold the position of a Chinese vice-minister and serves as head of the ?610 Office,? an extra-judicial arm

» Landmark sentencing? - 02-July-2010
Landmark sentencing? July 02, 2010 TibetInfoNet (TIN) June 30, 2010 ISSN: 1864-1407 The sentencing of Karma Samdrup on 24 June 2010 is potentially a hard blow for the further development of the vigorous grassroots social and ecological activism that has spread over many parts of Tibetan regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the last 5-8 years. His brilliant career, his markedly apolitical approach to contemporary problems, while maintaining a specific Tibetan attitude in the solutions he has proposed and, last but not least, the authorities' apparent approval of his activities were for many a source of inspiration and encouragement. The further handling of his case is likely to have deep implications for the nascent civil society within Tibet. Karma Samdrub was born in May 1968 in Gonjo (Chin: Gongjue) county, Chamdo (Chin: Qamdo) prefecture, TAR. He became wealthy through the trade of dzi stones1, long beads of dark colour with a glass-like texture, which can be foun

» Football on the Roof of the World - 02-July-2010
Football on the Roof of the World July 02, 2010 Claude Arpi www.claudearpi.blogspot.com June 29, 2010 As my column on the World Cup in Rediff.com continues, my thoughts turns to Tibet. Why is Tibet not represented in the FIFA? Why are the following countries represented and not Tibet? Here is a non-exhaustive list: Solomon Islands, Comoros, Mauritius, Palestine, Cayman Islands, Samoa, Seychelles Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tonga, Brunei Darussalam, Tahiti, British Virgin Islands, Guam, Bhutan Macau Aruba, US Virgin Islands, Timor-Leste , Anguilla, Montserrat, American Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Andorra or Faroe Island. One does not know about the existence of half of these 'countries'. At least everyone is aware where Tibet is located? And it is not even a question of territoriality, Tahiti being very much a part of France. In the 1940's, the Tibetans already loved football and practiced on the Roof of the World. I don't know from where they were getting their jabulanis; probably

» Op-Ed: Rishi who foresaw the future - 01-July-2010
Op-Ed: Rishi who foresaw the future July 01, 2010 Claude Arpi The Pioneer (India) June 29, 2010 Described by India?s British rulers as the ?most dangerous man?, Sri Aurobindo arrived in Pondicherry a hundred years ago with nothing more than a grand vision for humankind. Long after his death, the vision remains intact. And perhaps offers the best solution to the conflict between nations we see today A hundred years ago, Sri Aurobindo landed in Pondicherry, the former French establishment. Who still remembers this momentous event? Of course on the Centenary Day (April 4), politicians, eminent personalities and scholars garlanded statues of the master and gave pompous speeches; they recalled what Viceroy Lord Minto had said about the first proponent of Purna Swaraj: ?I can only repeat that he is the most dangerous man we have to reckon with?; and the curtain fell on the grand function. I presume that is the fate of all functions. But let us go back 100 years. On the afternoon of April 4,

» Tight security on show alongside re-education in Tibet - 01-July-2010
Tight security on show alongside re-education in Tibet July 01, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) June 30, 2010 In March 2008, two weeks after bloody riots erupted across the Tibetan plateau, a group of monks stormed a Chinese-government led tour of foreign journalists at Jokhang temple. "We want freedom - they are telling lies," said the monks, some in tears, saying they had been imprisoned in the temple after being falsely accused of causing the carnage. Yesterday, on another tightly controlled foreign media tour, a Jokhang administrator agreed to present one of those monks to show he had not been badly punished. ''I have not been beaten [or arrested], I had to learn more about the law,'' said the shy 29-year-old monk, Norgye. ''Through law education I realised what I had done.'' Norgye's impromptu testimony, relayed through a local government translator, provided some evidence that the Tibetan government's patriotic education blitz to bring monks to heel is yielding result

» Art and life in China blur for photographer Mo Yi - 01-July-2010
Art and life in China blur for photographer Mo Yi July 01, 2010 By Francois Bougon AFP June 29, 2010 BEIJING - Mo Yi was born and raised in Tibet, the son of a man who had followed the Chinese Communist Party's call to bring the socialist revolution to the Himalayan region. But today he is part of a creative explosion in Chinese artistic photography characterised by its powerful political commentary which takes an often harsh look at the party and the social effects of its policies. "I am not an ethnic Tibetan, but in the 1950s my father followed the call of the Communist Party, so I was born there," said Mo, a sage-like figure with his bald cranium and salt-and-pepper beard. It is difficult to picture the frail, chain-smoking Mo, now 52, as a professional athlete, but for eight years he played football for a regional team based in the Tibetan capital Lhasa. Eventually, however, photography got into his blood and today his workshop is in an old conservatory near Caochangdi,

» Chinese army helps its soldiers find love - 01-July-2010
Chinese army helps its soldiers find love July 01, 2010 The People's Liberation Army has said it will help its soldiers find love after a new rule banned Chinese troops from internet dating. The Telegraph (UK) Malcolm Moore, Shanghai June 28, 2010 Until now, members of the 2.3 million-strong Chinese army stationed in remote posts have relied on the internet for romance. But worried that lonely hearts might let sensitive information slip, the army has now banned online dating. Instead, PLA commanders will become matchmakers. "Soldiers stationed on frontiers, for example in Tibet, have few opportunities to make contact with the outside world," said Yang Jigui, an officer at the Xigaze base in Tibet. "But people with ulterior motives may make use of the soldiers' personal information and pose a threat to the safety of the army," he added. The base has already held a meeting to discuss how to find partners for its unmarried men through the local branch of the All China

» Film Review: Journey from Zanskar: Choose your own adventure (to Buddhist enlightenment)... - 01-July-2010
Film Review: Journey from Zanskar: Choose your own adventure (to Buddhist enlightenment) July 01, 2010 Going to school in the mountains? Magical. Going to school in the Tibetan mountains, where one of the core curricula is to attain enlightenment, or at least a sense of what it is? Nirvana. Chris Knight The National Post (Canada) June 17, 2010 Film Review: Journey from Zanskar (3 stars) Vagrant Films Why does a Buddhist monk climb a mountain? To reach enlightenment on the other side. In Frederick Marx?s strangely old-fashioned documentary, the monk is Geshe Lobsang Yonten; the "Geshe" means he?s a doctor of Buddhist Philosophy. The mountain is a 5,200-metre pass in northern India. And the enlightenment is the only Tibetan-language school for hundreds of miles in any direction. Yonten, who grew up in the dirt-poor region of Zanskar, has decided to ferry 17 local children to Manali, where they can be schooled in their native language and culture. (Before partition, the Kashmir

» Tibetan refugees in Nepal - 01-July-2010
Tibetan refugees in Nepal July 01, 2010 Republica (Nepal) June 29, 2010 Tibet seems to be Nepal?s constant worry. Not because many Tibetans came to Nepal and got settled here as refugees. Nor is it because some Tibetans are illicitly crossing the treacherous mountains and are descending on Kathmandu even today. It is because Kathmandu is under constant pressure from the Western countries and China regarding its policy about the Tibetans who illegally come to Nepal and use it as a transit to a third country. As a small country and a weak state, Nepal often finds itself trapped in the conflicting interests of its powerful northern neighbor and the West. Chinese authorities want the Tibetan refugees, who cross the border and make it to Nepal, to be locked up behind bars, if not handed over to them. But the Western countries want the Nepali state to provide refugees a safe passage to Dharamshala in India and to the West. It is time that Nepal had a candid conversation with both China and

» China says can guarantee grip on Tibet "forever" - 01-July-2010
China says can guarantee grip on Tibet "forever" July 01, 2010 Ben Blanchard Reuters June 29, 2010 LHASA, China (Reuters) - China can maintain its grip on Tibet "forever," a senior official said on Tuesday, but conceded that a heavy security presence was still needed to ensure order in Lhasa two years after deadly riots. Hao Peng, deputy Communist Party boss and deputy governor in mountainous Tibet, fingered unidentified "anti-Chinese" forces and exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as the main threat to a region which has been hit by sporadic unrest since 2008. "We have the ability and confidence to maintain stability in Tibet forever, and we will ultimately achieve long-term order and stability," Hao told visiting journalists, in a city still tense two years after it was ravaged by deadly ethnic rioting. "What you see in the streets, including the police and other legal forces, are necessary measures to maintain stability," he said, speaking

» Appeal for global political support on the Dalai Lama's 75th Birthday... - 01-July-2010
Appeal for global political support on the Dalai Lama's 75th Birthday July 01, 2010 I love Tibet June 29, 2010 http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5380/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3434 On 6 July 2010, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will be 75. Despite a difficult year, during which China continued to stonewall his efforts to progress negotiations and Tibetans in TIbet once more risked their lives calling for the Dalai Lama's return, His Holiness remains optimistic that he can secure a peaceful resolution to the occupation of Tibet. As a birthday gift for His Holiness, pledge him your support. Send the following message to ten of the most influential leaders in the world (G8 + India heads of government and the EU President), asking them to facilitate a direct meeting between the Dalai Lama and China's President Hu Jintao, so that there might be a breakthrough and real negotiations for the future of Tibet can begin. Perhaps one day, once the occupation of Tibet has come t

» Philadelphia to DC "March for Tibet?s Independence" - 01-July-2010
Philadelphia to DC "March for Tibet?s Independence" July 01, 2010 Phayul June 29, 2010 Dharamsala, June 29 - The International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM) will lead a 150 mile "March for Tibet?s Independence" beginning July 4 with a demonstration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, a press release from the ITIM said. The walk will pass through Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and conclude at Chinese Embassy in Washington DC on July 13 with another demonstration. Larry Gerstein of the ITIM said that they have chosen July 4th because of its significance as the Anniversary of the United States? succession or independence from England. "The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are striking symbols of this country?s independence. In fact, Independence Hall is considered the birthplace of the United States. This year?s walk begins at this historic Hall because Tibetans want independence for their country as well," added Larry Gerstein. Several Tibetans and su