Tibet is a region in Central Asia roughly 16,000 feet above sea level. It’s often referred to as the “Roof of the World.” Home of the notoriously peaceful Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama, Tibet has been in the news recently over...
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Tibet is a region in Central Asia roughly 16,000 feet above sea level. It’s often referred to as the “Roof of the World.” Home of the notoriously peaceful Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama, Tibet has been in the news recently over protests about treatment by the Chinese government.
An unofficial delegation of Tibetans, the first to attend UN climate talks, said Tuesday that global warming and China's environmental policies threatened Himalayan glaciers providing water to more than a billion Asians. Tibet, the world?s largest and highest plateau, is often called the "third pole" because it stores more freshwater in the form of glaciers than any region on Earth except the North and South poles. The region is warming at twice the global average, leading to accelerated... Read Full Story
Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the exiled Dalai Lama on the Internet, a Paris-based media watchdog said Monday. Gyaltsen and Nyima Wangdu were given three-year sentences after being convicted recently of "communicating information to contacts outside China," Reporters Without Borders said. "These convictions are absurd. These young people should not be made to pay for the tension between the Chinese authorities and the Dalai Lama... Read Full Story
Postcard From...Tawang By Saransh Sehgal Created: Dec 3, 2009 Last Updated: Dec 3, 2009 Facebook Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon | | Related articles: Opinion > Thinking About China An Indian Buddhist monks approaches the Thupten Gatsal Ling Gunpa, a branch of Tawang Monestry, in Itanagar, capital of Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India on October 11, 2009. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images) The inhabitants of the remote frontier town of Tawang, in the Himalayan foothills in the northeastern... Read Full Story
The conviction was clear but the message befuddling: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman was equating serfdom in Tibet to slavery in the U.S. — just ahead of President Barack Obama's first trip to China. Was it a monumental gaffe, last-minute stab at finding a common frame of reference, or a canny piece of strategy designed to redefine the U.S.-China dispute over Tibet? Whatever the motivation or intended effect, the response so far probably won't be to Beijing's liking. Among academics... Read Full Story
US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao Tuesday pledged to apply their joint political might to the world's toughest problems, but friction was evident on Tibet, economics and Iran. In solemn talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the high point of Obama's debut visit to China, the leaders ploughed through an agenda packed with top world crises, reflecting China's rise as a key global player. Hu vowed to work for "positive, cooperative and comprehensive" ties with Obama's... Read Full Story
The Dalai Lama on Monday held a mass audience with tens of thousands of devotees on a "non-political" visit to a region near India's border with Tibet that has drawn shrill protests from China. More than 30,000 people, many of whom arrived days in advance, packed into an open-air polo ground near the remote Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to hear the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. "Compassion and peace are the two words that should be remembered by all... Read Full Story
The Dalai Lama on Tuesday held a second mass prayer meeting close to India's border with Tibet, as China took a fresh swipe at his week-long tour of the Arunachal Pradesh region. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told tens of thousands of devotees gathered in Tawang that Tibetan Buddhism faced great difficulties but that their "religion and culture would survive the challenges." China protested vigorously before the trip, and on Tuesday a spokesman in Beijing said the Dalai Lama's presence... Read Full Story
Tens of thousands of Buddhist devotees gathered Monday to hear the Dalai Lama on his visit to a Tibetan border region that he insists is "non-political" but which China views as deeply provocative. Some 30,000 people, many of whom had arrived days in advance, were expected to attend a mass session of religious teaching by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader at the remote Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. China, which claims Arunachal as its own territory... Read Full Story
The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. Kunchok Tsephel, 39, was convicted and sentenced Nov. 12 after a closed-door trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Gannan prefecture in southwestern Gansu province, according to reports from Tibet received by Tibetan exiles, said the International Campaign for Tibet, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group. Some of the charges... Read Full Story
The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. Kunchok Tsephel, 39, was convicted and sentenced Nov. 12 after a closed-door trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Gannan prefecture in southwestern Gansu province, according to reports from Tibet received by Tibetan exiles, said the International Campaign for Tibet, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group. Some of the charges... Read Full Story
