Tibetan parliament-in-exile given more powers
Tibetan parliament-in-exile has passed a resolution paving the way for transfer of some powers from the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to the assembly.
A Meeting of Minds
“What shape are a cat’s ears?” That’s hardly the kind of question His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is accustomed to being asked. The leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the best-selling author and one of the world’s best-known spokesmen for moral causes
A Meeting of Minds
The Dalai Lama last week at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology symposium on consciousness and the mind. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
Rau criticises China’s leaders
Unexpectedly, the President of Germany Johannes Rau has openly reproved the Chinese government to respect human rights. In a speech in front of 1000 students of the University of Nanjing, Rau said that criticism of violations of human rights
Duty of democrats
President Johannes Rau surprised observers with a forthright speech in which he demanded that the Chinese government show respect for human rights. Actually Rau spoke of ordinary matters – it was the surprise of the public that was significant: in China