TYC led indefinite hunger strike update: Day 29 & 30
Despite Ms. Dolma Choephel, one of the determined hunger strikers was hospitalized after she lost consciousness at the end of the 29th day of the indefinite hunger strike, the other two hunger strikers are however have begun their 30th day of the indefinite hunger strike at a new location
Tibetans refuse to call off UN hunger strike
The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has refused to call off an hunger strike outside the UN office in New York in support of a free Tibet, despite an appeal by the Dalai Lama’s office here.
Nepalese Border Police Handover Tibetan Refugee to Chinese Authority
Two Tibetans from Kham Nyarong district were escaping into Nepal and they were spotted by Nepalese border guards. Preferring to die than being handed over to Chinese authorities, both of them jumped into the river.
With a grain of salt: It’s time to adopt non-violence
The concept of non-violence is a strange one. For us, accustomed to generations and centuries of violence as perhaps the only way for people to get their freedom, rights, desires, wants and needs; the fact that non-violence is a legitimate channel to achieve these objectives sits uneasily.
Non-Violence And Non-Action
In the tireless drive of the Dalai Lama and his admirers to promote the Tibetan struggle as a wholly non-violent affair conducted by a race of uniquely spiritual people (who would rather give up their country than commit any act of violence) truth has, unfortunately, become the first of casualties.
The care and feeding of the Dalai Lama
Toronto has provided a special kind of enlightenment for Tenzin Samten, the Dalai Lama’s chef. At the National Trade Centre, where the Tibetan Buddhist leader is conducting spiritual teachings, Mr. Samten had his first encounter with an induction stove.