Protestors Gather Outside China’s London Embassy as Wen Arrives
About 50 pro-Tibet and Falun Gong campaigners gathered opposite the Chinese embassy in London as China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived in the U.K. for a three-day visit.
Teen tending her Tibetan roots
Tenying Yangsel was born in Tibet, but her country is little more than a state of mind.
Her mother fled to India with 1-month-old Tenying and her brothers, then 2 and 4. Five years ago, she left her children with her sister in Nepal to come to New York City to work as a nanny.
Tibet easier problem for China to solve than Taiwan: Dalai Lama
China is likely to find it easier to resolve the problem of Tibet than that of Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said in France.
The name of the robes
Tales of astral flying, monks who meditate until their heads bleed and gurus who leave handprints in a rock pop up regularly in Mick Brown’s The Dance of 17 Lives. Yet, unlike the author’s 1999 The Spiritual Tourist