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Op-Ed Columnist - An Olive Branch From the Dalai Lama - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
With the Tibet question casting a shadow over the Olympics, the Dalai Lama has expressed an unprecedented willingness to compromise and accept Communist Party rule in Tibet.
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Behind the Scenes: Amanpour 'transfixed' by Dalai Lama - CNN.com
I never knew much about Buddhism, and was not expecting much, spiritually, from covering the Dalai Lama. But what happened just goes to show how the unlikeliest events can affect you at the unlikeliest times.
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Dalai Lama challenged by new generation of Buddhist activists - CNN.com
Public Bookmark added by Nova Spivack on 07/31/2008Gedun Gyatso, a 27-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, is so devoted to the Dalai Lama that when he was in prison he placed a picture of him next to his pillow in open defiance of his jailers. The gesture earned Gyatso another month of incarceration on top of the three years he had already served ...
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China plans sweeping purge of Tibetan monasteries - Telegraph
China is planning a sweeping purge of Tibetan monasteries, including banning all worship at those deemed to be major centres of subversion.
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Interpreting Tibet: A political guide to traveling in Tibet
Public Bookmark added by Mac McCarty on 07/14/2008a report by the International Campaign for Tibet
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Facing Facts On Tibet - Forbes.com
Comment added by David Scott "Lightman" Lewis on 04/12/2008This entire situation is fueling Chinese nationalism. (Maybe this is a good thing so that the West can finally see Chinese neo-Fascism in play.) On Chinese blogs, the response is overwhelmingly nationalistic and anti-West. The Western media isn't showing much of this. Even Singapore's Prime ... -
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Facing Facts On Tibet - Forbes.com
Comment added by Nova Spivack on 04/12/2008This is possibly the most interesting article on the Tibet situation that I have read in a while. It presents a view that I have never seen articulated AND backed up with facts, by a western writer, on why the Dalai Lama may in fact be asking for the wrong things from China. From what I read ... -
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VOA News - Tibet Government-in-Exile Says Some 70 Monks Arrested in Lhasa
Comment added by Nova Spivack on 04/09/2008So much for the promise not to arrest or harm the monks -
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First Time I Feel Ashamed to be Han, and Lucky to Not Be a Party Member - www.phayul.com
Comment added by Nova Spivack on 04/09/2008Interesting perspective
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