Dalai Lama Return to Tibet May Be Simpler for China
Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, was lionized in the United States but denied a visa to meet Buddhists in Russia. Those different responses reflect China’s dilemma on whether to deal or not to deal with the charismatic leader.
Voice of the Dalai Lama
A day after the 9/11 horrific terrorist attacks, the Dalai Lama had urged President George Bush to ponder whether a violent response was the “the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and people in the long run.”
Calm Meadow Intersects Risky World
Foreign affairs is never entirely offstage in this city — so multicultural, so multilingual, so multinational, indeed so multi-everything, and that includes tasking and tsking. But we seem to be in for an unusually heavy dose of world issues this week.
Clarification sent by Representative of OOT, New York to the Editor of NY Times on its recent report on the Dalai Lama
Your headline, as well as the report on the interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Laurie Goodstein (Dalai Lama Says Terror May Need a Violent Reply, September 18, 2003), gives the misleading impression that His Holiness is endorsing violence as a way to confront terrorism.