China play’s kung fu panda with Austria
China has reportedly threatened to take away all pandas loaned to a zoo in Vienna over “mistake” committed by Austrian leaders of meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama more than a year ago. According to reports the Chinese government has threatened to take Schönbrunn Zoo’s panda’s away
China calls Tibetan students’ protest “illegal”
China’s representative at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council session termed a mass students’ protest in the Chabcha region of eastern Tibet last year, in which many students were hospitalised, as an “illegal” act requiring prior permission according to Chinese law. China’s statement
The Dalai Lama leaves for New Zealand and Australia visits
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday left his exile hometown of Dharamshala for a fortnight’s visit to New Zealand and Australia to give a series of teachings and public talks. The 77-year old Tibetan leader is scheduled to begin his engagements with a teaching
RANGZEN IN YOUR HEART? By Jamyang Norbu
During the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to the United States he met a group of Tibetan students in Madison, Wisconsin. One of them asked a question that, to put it mildly, made him very upset. The student stumbled over his words and was generally so awkward that it seemed to me he had been set-up by someone (probably older, definitely a politician) to pose this loaded question. But I could be wrong. The question concerned a member of the exile parliament, who the questioner said he would not name.