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His Holiness the Dalai Lama attends global environment forum

By Jane Cook: April, 07 2015

Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay delivering the keynote speech at the memorial for Prof. Dawa Norbu at JNU, New Delhi, on April 7, 2015. Photo: CTA/DIIR

By Yeshe Choesang: April 10, 2015

New Delhi — ‘There is no doubt at all that Prof Dawa Norbu was a great intellectual who made great contribution towards the issue of Tibet from multi-perspective,’ Dr Lobsang Sangay said in his keynote address at the memorial for Prof Dawa Norbu at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.

After an official visit to Odisha state, Tibetan political leader, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay attended the ‘Symposium in Memory of Professor Dawa Norbu’ jointly organised by Tibetan Forum JNU and Tibetan Review at JNU Auditorium of School of Social Science in Delhi, on 7 April 2015, the Tibetan administration media reported on Thursday.

The day-long symposium was inaugurated by Prof S.K. Sopory, the Vice Chancellor of the University. Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, Mr Tempa Tsering, the representative of His Holiness, New Delhi along with the late Professor’s family members and students from the University were present.

In his keynote speech, the Sikyong remembered the late Prof Dawa Norbu as his “guru and a legend”. Recalling his days in the Harvard University when he invited the former for an academic engagement, he said that the time spent with him was a great learning experience.

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Buddhist institutions in Tibet must be propaganda centers

By Yeshe Choesang: April 16, 2015

Dharamshala — Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centers for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to “revere” science and appreciate the party’s love, the top Chinese appointed official said.

Writing in the influential fortnightly party magazine Qiushi, the top Communist Party cadre Chen Quanguo said the more than 1,700 temples and monasteries and 46,000 monks and nuns had to be seen by the government as “friends”.

“Let the monks and nuns in the temples and monasteries have a personal feeling of the party and government’s care and warmth; let them feel the party’s benevolence, listen to the party’s words and follow the party’s path,” Chen wrote in Qiushi, which means “seeking truth”.

Chen called for temples and monasteries in the region to be outfitted with radios and televisions, as well as newspapers and reading rooms.

“Monks and nuns should not have to go out of their temples or monasteries to understand the party and government’s policies and social progress, or Tibet’s peace, stability and good fortune, so as to be guided to follow a path of revering scientific culture.”

He has struck a similar line before, writing in late 2013 that Chinese officials in Tibet must build an “impenetrable defense” against separatism and befriend monks and nuns, who are generally revered by the devoutly Buddhist Tibetans.

The government has tried, with varying degrees of failed policies, to prevent Tibetans from accessing information about His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the exiled government on the Internet or via satellite television.

Tokyo, Japan — After a cordial meeting with a group of Japanese parliamentarians on April 6, 2015, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joined a panel taking part in a Global Environmental Forum for the Next Generation at the Yomiuri Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

“Today the topic is the environment, which is something I’m still learning about. When I first arrived in India, I had no idea about the importance of the environment, but gradually I have come to understand its significance,” he told an audience of 1100 who attended the Global Environmental Forum.

One factor here is our increasing population. It’s 7 billion now and some say it may reach 10 billion by the end of this century.

In this context, large numbers of people live in poverty. There is a huge gap between rich and poor, which we have to close and ensure more equality.

“Then there is our rapidly changing climate, and natural disasters that appear to be on the increase. The need to take care of nature and the environment is urgent. It’s a matter of human survival because this planet is our only home. We have to take ecology seriously. Although the climate does change naturally, the rate and extent of recent change is an evident result of human activity.

We need to learn more about this and what we can do about it.

“If we compare changes in the climate and damage to the environment to war and violence, we can see that violence has an immediate impact on us. The trouble is that damage to the environment takes place more stealthily so we don’t see it until it is often too late. Trying to restore it at that point is very difficult. We need to educate ourselves and make caring for the environment, even in small ways like remembering to turn off the lights when we leave the room, a part of our lives.”

He suggested that we reassess our life-style in order that poor people’s standard of living is raised and resources are used more equitably. For example, His Holiness said, countries spend vast sums of money on weapons. Nobody wants war; war means killing.

It’s like a fire for which the fuel is human beings. It’s a fire that can consume us all. War is a part of human history, but the ideas that create it, the sense of ‘my country’, ‘my people’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ are no longer relevant in the globalized world in which we live.

“We need to think of all human beings, who, like us, want to live a

His Holiness the Dalai Lama waving to the audience as he arrives at Yomiuri Hall to attend the Global Environmental Forum for the Next Generation in Tokyo, Japan on April 6, 2015. Photo/Tenzin Jigmey

happy life. My future depends on others, and theirs depends on me.”

He said that Japan, as the one country to have suffered nuclear attack, has taken the lead in opposing nuclear weapons. In a recent meeting of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, delegates were shocked by the description of the nuclear winter that would follow a nuclear exchange. It was decided that it was no longer enough to speak out against these weapons; there needs to be a timetable for their elimination and pressure on those who possess them to meet it.

“I strongly approve of your opposition to nuclear weapons and urge you to keep it up.”

Buddhist nun dies after setting herself on fire in eastern Tibet

Tibetans and supporters call for medical parole for jailed Buddhist monk

Yeshe Khado, a 47-year-old nun from Nganggang Nunnery in Draggo County, eastern Tibet. Photo: TPII

By Yeshe Choesang: April 10, 2015

Tibetans and supporters are urging the Chinese government to release of Trulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche for medical parole, McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India, on April 7, 2015. Photo: TPI/Choneyi Sangpo

By Molly Lortie: April 08, 2015

Dharamshala — Tibetans and Tibetan supporters gathered yesterday to gather support for the medical release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been unjustly imprisoned by Chinese authorities for the past 13 years.

Students for a Free Tibet and Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Service Community jointly organized the event that served as a book release and kickstarter for the global campaign calling on world governments to urgently pursue life saving medical parole for the Rinpoche. Similar events were also held in different corners of the world, including South India, US and European countries.

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Dharamshala — Sources coming out of Tibet say a Tibetan Buddhist nun reportedly died on Wednesday, April 8, after setting herself on fire in an apparent political protest against the Chinese hard-line policies in Tibet.

“The woman, identified as Yeshe Khado, a 47-year-old Tibetan nun from Nganggang Nunnery in Draggo County self-immolated in an apparent protest against the Chinese government’s continuing repressive policies in Tibet,” Mr Karma, a Tibetan living in Australia told the Tibet Post International on Friday.

“Khado set herself ablaze around 09:00 a.m. (local time) April 8, 2015, near a police station in Draggo County, Kham Region of North-eastern Tibet (Ch: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province),” Karma added.

As she set herself on fire, Khado called for the “Freedom in Tibet,” “Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” “Allow His Holiness the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet,” and “all

Tibetans should be united as one for Tibet,” according to the same sources.

Khado also shouted slogans such as “Human Rights in Tibet”, according to another source with close contacts in Tibet.

Khado, a native of the Tehor Dragsur village, Draggo County, eastern Tibet, was held in high esteem by the local Tibetans for his loyalty towards the preservation of Tibetan culture and religion. “Just few hours before of her self-immolation protest, locals saw Khado walking clockwise around the outside of the Karze Monastery,” he added.

“Police have immediately taken away the charred body despite protests from the local Tibetans who appealed to the police to hand over the body to the family,” sources said. This is the second self-immolation that took place in Tibet this year.

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Professor Ryuichi Yamamoto of Tokyo University made a clear presentation of the hazards of climate change. Global temperatures are rising. There are floods in England, drought in Australia, tsunamis in Indonesia. While cold waves sweep some parts of the United States, California is undergoing the worst drought in the region for 1200 years. There is clear loss of polar ice and as it goes on sea levels will rise.

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China is deliberately misleading the reality in Tibet

By Yeshe Choesang: April 16, 2015

Dharamshala — China’s State Council Information Office (China’s Cabinet) released another frenzied white paper on Tibet that clearly indicates the Chinese government’s nervousness over its grip on occupied Tibet, a statement of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Wednesday.

A brief response comes on the same day China accused His Holiness the Dalai Lama of inciting a wave of self-immolations among Tibetans that are widely seen as desperate protests against Chinese rule in the oppressed region.

“A Tibetan nun was the latest to self-immolate. The actions of the 137 Tibetans who have self-immolated so far clearly reflect the deepening anguish and resentment of the Tibetan people at the conditions in their homeland,” the CTA said in a response to China’s claims, Chinese police investigations showed such incidents are being “manipulated and instigated” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

“Since the early 1990s, China has issued 13 white papers on Tibet. This means Beijing has issued a white paper on Tibet for almost each of the two years within this intervening period.

White papers by nature are authoritative guides on complex issues that need to be resolved or commercially as sales and marketing documents,” the statement said, adding that “For the Chinese government to issue 13 white papers on Tibet means that it is having great difficulty in convincing potential customers to buy its arguments on Tibet. These white papers are a dozen too many, too unconvincing and too late to arrest the worsening conditions in Tibet.”

“In recent times, the US State Department, the Congressional Executive Commission on China, Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders and other NGOs have pointed out the political repression, economic marginalization, social exclusion and cultural assimilation of the Tibetan people and environmental destruction on the Roof of the World. Even Chinese scientists talk about the worsening environmental degradation on the plateau of Tibet also called Third Pole,” the statement said.

“Unlike China’s 12 other white papers on Tibet, the latest white paper seems to be a belated reaction on the part of Beijing to the renewed, ongoing campaign on the Middle Way Policy launched last year by the Central Tibetan Administration to create greater awareness of this policy within the international community,” the CTA press statement further added.

According to the white Paper, what Tibet side seek is a “Greater Tibet.” or “a high degree of autonomy” attempts to set up “a state within a state,” which contravenes the Constitution and state systems.

The “Middle Way” which neither seeks “Greater Tibet” nor a “high degree of autonomy”, but genuine autonomy for all Tibetan people under a “single administration,” Lobsang Sangay said during the Sino-Tibetan conference in Hamburg, Germany, on 28 August 2014.

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Is China deliberately replacing Buddhist temples in Tibet with propaganda centers?

April 15, 2015

Dharamshala— China`s tough new policy of abusing Tibetan people is sowing doubts and confusion in Tibet, where the authorities are trying to replace Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet with propaganda centers for the ruling Communist Party. China has dispatched government agents into every village in Tibet as part of an unprecedented surveillance and ‘political re-education’ programme or ‘patriotic re-education’. An army of 21,000 officials scattered into small teams and set up in each of 5,541 villages in central Tibet alone, with agents in some cases moving into the homes of Tibetans.

In Mao era, especially during his deadly cultural revolution, all religious activity was banned, any opinion of religion was considered blasphemy. These days, criticising the party qualifies as blasphemy. China is strongly anti-Western and it believes that there is a global conspiracy against the country. The authorities then recently attempted to root out supporters of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and indoctrinated villagers with the virtues of the communist party and the Chinese state.

They are the same people who once bowed before portraits of former dictator Mao and Communist leaders now pay homage to the Tibetan monasteries and their icons by merging the church into state. It seems that the Chinese authorities are the ones most actively and deliberately working to deepen divisions in society.

An article recently written in a fortnightly party magazine “Qiushi” Chen Quanguo, Beijing appointed Tibet’s Communist Party boss, says Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centers for the ruling Communist Party, where Buddhist monks must be seen by Beijing government as “friends.” That’s a bit of a tricky sell, given China’s 66-year history of repression in Tibet, after destroying more than 6000 monasteries and temples and killing over 1.2 million out of total 6 Tibetans, including thousands of monks and nuns who were protesting against the unregenerate authoritarian state.

The Tibetan people deserve no less. They are denied it. This is their freedom struggle.

It is not built on hate, ideology, nationalism, religious bigotry, or even nostalgia for the past. It stems from the pursuit of justice and fairness, and for everything that is decent in this world.

Tibet was historically an expansionary power itself, for centuries rivalling China for control of Central Asia. After Mao’s communists gained control of China in 1949, Beijing sent a large People’s Liberation Army contingent into Tibet, but its authority was not fully cemented until it quashed the Tibetan uprising of 1959 — causing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to flee into exile in India, followed within a year by about 80,000 Tibetans. The world must equally react against those who appear to be most responsible for crimes against humanity and take action to end violence against Tibetan people. It is significant that Chinese government has a serious human rights issue to the international stage. This is an opportune time for the Tibetans and Tibet support groups across the globe to speak up for human rights and further press China. Human rights is a universal value and politics should not stand in the way of upholding these fundamental rights.

Some nations have the calamity to vanish in a matter of months or years, overrun by the machinery of war; others die slowly, the victims of a million cuts of oppression. Tibet is one such nation to endure the latter fate. Its culture, religion and identity are being slowly and ruthlessly deleted by China. It is also tragic that the liberal world resisted against the unregenerate totalitarian and authoritarian states as well as the global spread of Soviet communism. However, not only is the

Free world presently keeping a disgraceful silence on Chinese regimes’ grave human rights violations in Tibet—including torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, house arrest, detention without public trial, repression of religious freedom, and arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement, but it is also in fact supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Middle-way measures by taking no action.

But, the Chinese authoritarian regime has blatantly demolished all these achievements and values over the past six decades and seeks to prove that bullying and violence are the only ways to survive in the international scene and that legal, moral, political and human means have no application in the world. The Beijing regime, through such an attitude, is in fact confirming that its international identity is illegitimate because legitimate and legal establishments have no need for violence and bullying for their survival. Illegal and illegitimate regimes need bullying, terrorism and violence for their survival.

The supportive silence in the face of the Chinese cultural genocide in Tibet is support for the revival of repressive policies of Mao’s approaches in the world and an approval of the law of jungle in international relations. It also means that any illegal and illegitimate move can be justified through bullying and violence. The shameful role of the civilised countries and especially permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – is most regrettable when it comes to the issue of Tibet. They have shown no appropriate reaction and carried out no practical measure to defend international norms for crimes against humanity committed in Tibet.

The establishment and spread of international hatred of a regime which can be can be presented to the world as the most important threat to global peace and civilisation is the other side of the Tibet coin. China is offering a real image of itself which is associated with unforgettable fury and hatred of this regime. Opponents of the Chinese regime are increasing day by day, including Tibet, eastern Turkistan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Freedom- and peace-seeking people, believers, opponents of war, terror, violence, dictatorship and political cruelty as well as advocates of international law and international order have come to the understanding that the China regime is a serious threat to global peace and that its survival will not be reconcilable with the survival of peace, security and particularly international order. It is surprising that Western experts did not remind politicians of such realities and instead allow their security to be put up for sale as the Westerners are keeping silent and taking no action against the Chinese regime’s cultural genocide in Tibet.

The world today expects that the China regime’s repressive policies against the defenseless people in Tibet will stop, the region’s blockade and sanctions will be lifted, especially in the capital Lhasa and all those who played a hand in the ongoing crimes against humanity be put on trail and punished, like Spainish National Court. Unfortunately the country has failed in marking a historical event. It also expects that an independent fact finding mission be sent to the region and the case of China’s genocide be examined at the UN Security Council and also referred to the international justice court.

If such measures are carried out, hopes for peace and freedom will equally rise for the existence of a minimum level of international order. What we are currently witnessing is anarchy promoted by the Chinese which is a kind of regeneration of Mao’s bloody “Cultural revolution,” amounted to an attempt to wipe out the entire Tibetan culture and its religion, Tibetan Buddhism. However, for Tibetans the daily life situation is worse.

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa of Tibet continues US tour

By Molly Lortie: April 15, 2015

Dharamshala — His Eminess the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje continued his trip the the United States with a five day stop in Boston. During his first day in Cambridge, he visited the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center in Harvard Square, an endeavor that lies close to the Karmapa’s heart. The TBRC was founded in 1999 by the great Tibetologist Gene Smith with the goal of sustaining and making accessible to everyone the whole range of Tibetan literature.

The Karmapa praised the center, and asserted that it has made a huge difference in his own life. He uses the TBRC website regularly and appreciates it especially when he is traveling, since he does not have to carry suitcases loaded with heavy books. In the future, the Karmapa proposed, “For the digital preservation of the Buddhist tradition, both spiritual and secular, we work together and continually share information.”

Next, the Karmapa graced the Memorial Chapel at Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The Karmapa began his talk by embracing the link to his previous incarnation, the 16th Karmapa, who was one of the first masters to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the U.S and to Harvard. He spoke candidly to the audience about caring for life

The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje bestowing Teachings and Empowerment for the practice of Akshobhya, Terrace on the Park, Queens, New York, America, 12 April, 2015. Photo: TPI

on Earth and the importance of depending upon one another. He encouraged this interdependence to yield unaltering compassion, and explained: “Compassion is not a thought, but a feeling, which cannot be inculcated or encouraged.

Compassion is something each of us has to volunteer through our natural courage and benevolence, which is the root of compassion.

During His Holiness’s last day in Boston,

He noted that some of his much-read books and articles narrate significantly about the historical background during Chinese occupation of Tibet.

“Only few Tibetans have reached the status and the intellectual depth that parallels the late Professor Dawa Norbu,” said Sikyong.

“His intellectual contribution is not just to a Tibetan world, but also to south Asia, central Asia and also towards China. His contribution in the Tibetan world is one thing and beyond that in the Tibetan studies, Tibetology studies he is immensely appreciated and acknowledged. There is no doubt at all that he was a great intellectual who made great contribution towards the Tibetan issue from multi-perspective,” Sikyong said.

Shedding light on the Professor’s views on

religion and politics, Sikyong re-quoted his statement, “Politics is shallow, and Political Science is also study of the shallow field, but Buddhism is true today, it was true before and it remains true forever.” He further added that the professor revered His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Dalai Lama too had recognised his contribution towards the Tibetan movement and for his open views and remarks on Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

Sikyong emphasised that the symposium should not just be a mere memorial forum but strongly urged the Tibetan youth to emulate his accomplishment since Tibetan movement needed hundreds like him to strengthen it.

he met with the local Tibetan community, which consists of around 600 people. He expressed the importance of meeting with Tibetans wherever he goes, and he spoke of the importance of combating the possible loss of Tibetan language and culture. “We all carry this responsibility to uphold Tibetan language and traditions, and we are carrying it together,” he told them.

The Karmapa’s two month journey in the United States continued with a trip to Princeton University in New Jersey. During his three days at Princeton he attended student run open mic nights, gave a lecture where he highlighted gender equality, gay rights, and other issues important to the students, ate with students in campus dining halls, sat in on classes about climate change and sculpture, and interacted with groups of students and faculty members regarding several issues dear to his heart: the environment, gender, activism and art. His time at Princeton encapsulated his intention in making this university tour; to connect more deeply with students and to enhance his exposure to their experiences as young people.

(TAR), Tibetans cannot express freely and they can not travel from one town or region to another without permission. A Tibetan from any county and region wanting to visit relatives in Lhasa must apply to authorities for permission to do so – and this is happening in their own country where they used to assemble peacefully and associate freely!

Freedom of movement is a fundamental human right, and it is just one of the freedoms curtailed in the central Tibet.

Everywhere you travel, there are permits to check, passports to show, and places that are off-limits for no apparent reason. The most sacred sites in Tibet like Mt. Kailash and Lhamo Latsho Lake with their prognostic abilities were most of times out of bounds for tourists and pilgrims over the Buddhist holidays.

Why? What possible threat to national security could a lake or a mountain pose? Control was everything. The authorities will closely watch you as you make your way through the Potala Palace or Jokhang Temple alongside throngs of hundreds of Chinese everyday.

China’s objective behind this obvious cultural genocide is completely clear. As a racist, cruel and dictatorial regime, China responds to any resistance against its policies with an iron fist and sees no limitation or obstacles in the world for implementing this policy.

The historical irony is that the regime and its policies are a reminder of former Chinese dictator, Mao Zedong, who is widely regarded as the most prolific mass murderer in human history— has a great reputation of being the harshest forms of aggressive ideal-based oppression and violations during the brutal, deadly cultural revolution or Communist Holocaust that killed nearly one million in Tibet and 65 million in China.

Almost all freedom have been prevented in most parts of Tibet, lines of army trucks appeared on the streets, each filled with soldiers, facing to the outside of the truck, machine gun in hand, just hunting for a peaceful man to begin a peaceful protest.

Sixty-six years have passed since the Chinese regime invaded the independent state in 1949.

More than 1.2 million Tibetans were killed by the Chinese between 1949 and 1979, including 173,221 Tibetans who died after being tortured in prison, 156,758 executed, 432,705 killed fighting Chinese soldiers, 342,970 starved to death, and 92,731 publicly tortured to death, whilst a further 9,002 Tibetans committed suicide, the region has turned into the focal point of the Tibetans’ resistance against the relentless Chinese acts of aggressions and continuous occupation.

The Tibetan people are victims of this repressive system. They are not regarded as a distinct people with sensitivities and needs, but as beneficiaries of the Motherland who must comply with the will of the Party. Anything other than that is unpatriotic at the least and treachery at the worst. Today, Regardless of the figures, the overall impact of the influx is tragic as devastating because the Chinese not only control the political and military power in Tibet, but also the economic life and even cultural and religious life of the people.

China’s 1992 policy of population transfer into Tibet not only forcefully reduces the Tibetans to a minority in their own country, which in turn disenfranchises them from the future political process. The mass immigration by millions of Chinese settlers into occupied territories of central Tibet U’Tsang, Tibet threatens the very existence of Tibetan culture, religion and national identity- particularly the other two traditional provinces, Amdo and Kham, which were renamed by the Chinese in 1949 as parts of China- Qinghai and parts of Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces.

Our brothers and sister in the three provinces of Tibet– targeted for destruction by Chinese government – forced by crackdowns and Patriotic re-education campaigns to flee as refugees, or to hide in caves or bush, facing government-orchestrated “political repression, economic marginalisation, social discrimination, environmental destruction

and cultural assimilation.”

Abraham Lincoln once said that: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Therefore, looking back at our proud history, China never has enough and is afraid that it never will. We denounce the evil policy that destroys our lives and wages crime against humanity and freedom, and we denounce the apathy and passivity that allow it to perpetuate. We commit to intentional, sustained prayer, waging freedom struggle against this evil. We will speak out on behalf of those whose voices have been silenced or sidetracked. And we will take action on their behalf through organizations providing direct contacts, and in our support groups, communities, and government.

The people of Tibet call international community to stand together as their human rights, freedom and religious liberties are threatened and as many face persecution across the globe. The world must also stand together to support our brothers and sisters in Tibet where they face physical threats and extermination. We must grieve for the persecution of our fellow Tibetans, and especially of victims of torture for political and religious beliefs and their families who are threatened with cultural cleansing and genocide in the past six decades.

This is our hope. The reaction to the Chinese repressive policy is extremely confusing, highly motivated, and frequently changing, thus frustrating. It is very hard to beleive because it is involved with the crime against humanity that is what we hope that the international community, specially free world will assist us and our cause when China raises issues around issues of Tibet, is nothing different than the Western world willingly and wittingly committing itself to the democratic principles. We just seek the restoration of our basic human rights, a return of political power, and the enjoyment of basic freedoms that have been denied.

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China detains four Tibetans in Sog County, Tibet on unknown charges

Undated image of Choepal Dawa, a monk from Sog Tsanden monastery, Sog County, eastern Tibet. Photo: TPI

By Yeshe Choesang: April 03, 2015

Dharamshala — Emerging sources say Chinese security personnel arrested four Tibetans, three monks and a layman, on unknown charges in Sog County, Kham Region of eastern Tibet, in last month.

“The three monks identified as Choepal Dawa, Jigme Wangyal, and Choeying Choega, were detained by Chinese police under the cover of night from their monastery on March 28,” Mr Ngawang Tharpa told the Tibet Post International (TPI) on Wednesday, April 1.

“Dorjee Dakpa, a layman from Sog County also arrested on unknown charges on the same day and his whereabouts and fate remain unknown,” he added.

According to the sources, one of three monks: Choepal Dawa, 27, was sentenced to two years in prison, less than a month after his detention in mid-January 2012.

Dawa is a native of Yakla Yultso village of Sog County.”

The authorities did not explained the reason for their arrests and their current whereabouts and condition remain unknown at the moment,” he said.

“At present it is impossible to get detail information from the region due to restrictions on information and tightened security in the area,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The monks belonging to the restive Tsanden

monastery of Sog County (Ch: Suo county, Tibet Autonomous Region) where seven monks were arrested last month for allegedly “spreading out photographs and information dealing the issues of Tibet.

Another monk from the same monastery named Lobsang Dawa was also arrested on March 20, on unknown charges and his whereabouts are also unknown.

“To prevent the use of social networking sites and other social media such as WeChat to publicise images, audio or videos that contain information related to Tibet issue,” sources said, adding “Further restrictions have also been imposed in the region.”

“Local Tibetans also believed that the recent arrests have been made in connection with sharing information and pictures related to Tibet issues via social media,” he added.

But, a China appointed Tibetan official recently claimed that ‘there was no ban on foreign journalists traveling to the region.’

“To be honest, we don’t have a policy in Tibet that dictates those who can come and those who cannot come,” Pema Trinley or Padma Choling, a China appointed Tibetan official, said on the sidelines of the Chinese National People’s Congress in Beijing.

“Especially, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region,” he said. “We will hold major events to demonstrate the results of development and growth of the area since then. We welcome all of you to come.”

Chinese authorities barred foreign journalists from visiting Tibet after that March 2008 peaceful protests. Since then the regime has imposed severe restrictions on internet and phone connections by increasing a wider crackdown on communications across Tibet in an attempt to prevent any news reaching the outside world.

In Tibet today, Tibetans are being arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and tortured for merely expressing their suffering under Chinese rule. However, authorities in Beijing still claim that “China ‘peacefully liberated’ Tibet, and that the “Tibetans are living in a Maoist socialist paradise.”

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Dharamshala — Emerging sources say Chinese authorities have expelled more than 100 monks and nuns from their monasteries and nunneries in Driru County, eastern Tibet and seven monks severely beaten and held after staging protest. A newly built nunnery has been closed down and completely demolished.

“A total of 53 monks were expelled from three monasteries in Driru County, Kham region of eastern Tibet (Ch: Biru county, Tibet Autonomous

Region): 18 from Driru Monastery, 15 from Choeling Monastery between October 16-18, 2014 and 20 monks were expelled from Gonsar Monastery, on October 20, 2014,” Ven Dasang, a Tibetan monk living in exile told the Tibet Post International (TPI) on Wednesday (April 1).

“Fifty Tibetan nuns were also expelled from Golung Nunnery in the same county, on October 20, 2014 and the details, including current situation remain unknown,” he said, citing the sources in the region.

‘The CTA reaffirmed its commitment to the “Middle Way” engaging China through dialogue to achieve meaningful autonomy for all Tibetans within the PRC,’ Sikyong told told the intellectuals, mostly Chinese who were eye-witnesses of the conference that day.

The CTA’s bizarre responses to the claims “The “middle way,” ultimately seeks full sovereignty and achieve “Tibetan independence” when its governing power is consolidated under the control of the “Tibetan independence.” The statement said: “On the contrary, the Middle Way Policy seeks genuine autonomy within the framework of the constitution of the People’s Republic of China which is a win-win proposition for all parties and one lauded throughout the world including various governments. Several points raised in the Middle Way Policy are found here and here.”

“The Chinese government’s attempt to portray the Middle Way Policy as an attempt by Tibetans to strike out for independence is deliberately misleading, a huge indication of the government’s

total failure to come up with better ideas,” it further said.

The statement adds, “unlike other white papers, this particular white paper tries to belittle His Holiness the Dalai Lama by questioning his sincerity in dealing with China. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, admired around the world and revered by the Tibetan people, does not need any certificate on his motivation from the Chinese government. His Holiness the Dalai Lama remains the unquestioned leader of the Tibetan people and also admired by Chinese people around the world.”

“Media organizations have often stated that international media’s access to Tibet is worse than that of North Korea, of which China is a staunch ally. Instead of issuing white papers on Tibet, China should open up Tibet to both international rights groups and media. Let them do the objective report on issue of Tibet and let the world be the judge,” the statement concluded.

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Senior Buddhist monk released on bail, may face trial

By Yeshe Choesang: April 13, 2015

Dharamshala — Sources coming out of Tibet say a senior Tibetan Buddhist monk and intellectual monk who was detained on eve of Tibet uprising anniversary has been released on “bail pending trial” on March 20, 2015.

“The monk, identified as Jigme Gyatso Aka Jigme Gyaltsen, a 39-year-old senoir monk from Joney Dethang Khanpo Monastery in Joney County, Amdo Kanlho of northeastern Tibet,” Mr Sonam, a Tibetan living in Switzerland, told the Tibet Post International.

“The monk left his monastery on March 6, to visit Tashi Kyil Monastery in Labrang County for a long life prayer service for his spiritual teacher Dethang Khan Rinpoche,” he said, adding: “Almost 12 days since, there have been no whereabouts of the monk.”

“Ven Gyatso was secretly detained and taken away by Chinese police on suspicion of planning a demonstration against the government on 10th March uprising day. He was then accused of involvement in “activities to split the motherland.”

“Chinese authorities further accused him of sharing images of the banned Tibetan flags and spreading of politically sensitive information with others from his mobile phone via social media using blogs and forums when he was arrested,” he further added.

The accident happened while he was visiting the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Labrang County, as a senior monk and as a representative of his monastery.

“The Buddhist scholar, who told his colleagues and family that he was in a Chinese court after weeks-long disappearance,” sources said.

He was appointed the Lama Ozin (the highest position next to the Abbot) of the Monastery in Joney County (Ch: Zhu?ní Xiàn, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China).

Gyatso has also spearheaded the local opposition to heightened security dramatically in Tibet with massive military deployment in

Over 100 monks and nuns expelled, repression continues in Tibet

By Yeshe Choesang: April 03, 2015

April 15, 2015

The buildings of Gaden Bhug Nunnery were pulled down at the County, on October 20 last year by local authorities under orders from the Driru county government,” sources said, adding “the reconstruction is unauthorised as the nunnery is not found among the list of registered religious institutions.

“All the nuns were expelled following and the details, including their names are still unknown,” he said.

“The seven monks of Golung Monastery in the County were arbitrarily arrested and severely beaten by police following their protest in front of the government “Work Team office at the monastery, between July 23-24, 2014,” he said.

“The seven monks identified as Lhakpa 17, Dudul 15, Tadrin Tsering 16, Gyalpo 19, Choeyang Samdup 19, Lama 16, and Konchok Dadul 17 from Driru County. The monks protested against Chinese officials’ false, misleading and evasive actions toward their monastery” sources added.

However news only reached Tibetans in exile after months due to heavy restrictions on information and tightened security in the area.

Monasteries and nunneries in the County were targeted by Chinese authorities after monks and nuns refused to agree with a five-point political pledge: to oppose the idea of an independent Tibet; to denounce the Dalai Lama; to recognise the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama; to oppose those advocating independence of Tibet; and to work for the unity of the “motherland”. Those who resist face severe punishment in the form of expulsion or arrest.

Chinese authorities barred foreign journalists from visiting Tibet after that March 2008 peaceful protests. Since then the regime has imposed severe restrictions on internet and phone connections by increasing a wider crackdown on communications across Tibet in an attempt to prevent any news reaching the outside world.

In Tibet today, Tibetans are being arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and tortured for merely expressing their suffering under Chinese rule. However, authorities in Beijing still claim that “China ‘peacefully liberated’ Tibet, and that the “Tibetans are living in a Maoist socialist paradise.”

But, a China appointed Tibetan official Pema Trinley recently claimed that ‘there was no ban on foreign journalists traveling to the region.’

Ven Jigme Gyatso a Buddhist monk from Joney Dethang Khanpo Monastery in Joney County, Amdo Kanlho of north-eastern Tibet. Photo: TPI

the area in 2008.

After completing a pilgrimage to Lhasa in 2012, he was arrested and held in Taktse Detention Centre for three days where he refused to eat anything. Later he was handed over to a detention center in Lanzhou City, Gansu province.

Ven Gyatso was also a respected teacher in his township from 2010 to 2011, where he

started teaching at Primary School/Elementary School. Tibetan language Initiative is being continued after receiving permission from the local authorities in 2014.

He is known also for zealously advocating the need to preserve Tibetan culture and Buddhism.

All of these initiatives had earned him much respect and admiration from fellow Tibetans,” the sources said.

By Yeshe Choesang: April 08, 2015

including ‘The Power of the Heart’ and ‘For the Freedom, I Have No Regrets,’ against the injustice and repression under which Tibetan people live.

However Many of his writings which were later confiscated by Chinese authorities.”

“His wife’s name is Lhamo Tsering and has a 3-year-old kid. His stepfather’s name is Tamding and mother’s name is Lhamo Kyi, Ven Jigme said, adding: “the current condition and whereabouts of the arrested disappeared writer remain unknown.”

After Shokjang’s arrest and disappearance, Sources reportedly said that “many of his fellow writers have expressed their solidarity with Shokjang and his innocence. About 30 articles which has been already posted on a number of social-networking websites, including the messaging app WeChat.”

Many Tibetans, including monks have been arrested and jailed in recent years for circulating information about protests and cases of self-immolation. More than 50 Tibetan dissents, including writers, bloggers, singers and environmentalists, have been detained or are imprisoned, mostly after sharing views or information about conditions in their homeland.

Chinese authorities barred foreign journalists from visiting Tibet after that March 2008 peaceful protests. Since then the regime has imposed severe restrictions on internet and phone connections by increasing a wider crackdown on communications across Tibet in an attempt to prevent any news reaching the outside world.

In Tibet today, Tibetans are being arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and tortured for merely expressing their suffering under Chinese rule.

However, authorities in Beijing still claim that “China ‘peacefully liberated’ Tibet, and that the “Tibetans are living in a Maoist socialist paradise.”

Reporters Without Borders ranks China 175 out of 180 countries, for freedom of the press and Amnesty International calls China an “authoritarian state” as do the U.S. and EU.

Youth who wrote “The Power of the Heart” arrested in Rebkong, Tibet Dharamshala — In further crackdown on Tibetan dissents inside Tibet, a Tibetan writer and blogger Shokjang and his brother in law have been arrested by Chinese authorities in Rebkong County of north-eastern Tibet (Ch: Tongren County, Qinghai, China) for writings allegedly engaging in splittist activities.

“Druklo, pen name Shokjang, a 31-year-old Tibetan writer and blogger was detained by Chinese security officials from a hotel in Rebkong County, Amdo Region of northeastern Tibet, on March 18, 2015. Although the circumstances of his arrest are not known,” Ven Jigme Gyatso, a Tibetan living in exile told The Tibet Post International.

According to sources, “this is the second time that Shokjang has been detained by the authorities.

He was arrested on April 6, 2010, along with his fellow student Tashi Rabten (penname Theurang) when they were at the Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province in Northwest China.”

Theurang’s writings on the 2008 protests inside Tibet and his book ‘Written in Blood’, copies of which were later confiscated by government officials.

“Chinese officials told his family that he will be released to home soon. His brother in law Tashi Nyima released after few days but shokjang remained in Chinese police custody without any formal charges filed against him after his arrest,” sources added.

Born in Khaja township, Gengya Yultso, Sangchu County near Labrang Monastery, northern-eastern Tibet, “Shokjang has complete his undergraduate studies at University in Lanzhou,” he said.

Sources said that “as a student at the University, Shokjang written several articles about the situation in Tibet and he had won great respect from the Tibetan community. His writings

Druklo, pen name Shokjang, a 31-year-old Tibetan writer and blogger, Sangchu County, Amdo region of north-eastern Tibet. Photo: TPI

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5 His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet makes 21st trip to Japan “Success is right in our hands:” Tibetan political leader Sikyong TPI NEWS

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April 15, 2015

By Molly Lortie: April 10, 2015

His Holiness the Dalai Lama with a classic Japanese umbrella presented to him at the conclusion of his talk as part of the 40th Anniversary of All Japan Young Priest Association in Gifu, Japan on April 8, 2015. Photo/Tenzin Jigmey

Tokyo — His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s arrival in Tokyo on Thursday, April 2, 2015 marked his 21st trip to Japan. He began his 13 day trip in Sapporo where he graced an audience of over 1800 at a nonprofit organized event highlighting Universal Responsibility.

“We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet other people, I don’t think about my being different from them, about my being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being like them.”

Upon his return to Tokyo, His Holiness was invited to speak to a live audience in the Japan Doctors Association Hall, in addition to 166,000 viewers streaming the event live online.

His Holiness mentioned the honor he felt in addressing a gathering of people from a field he so highly respected. He explained that when a patient comes to a hospital in need of care, they

are not asked their faith, nationality or other background information; they are regarded as human beings in need of help, as patients in need of care. He noted that what doctors practiced was of the utmost importance in life, caring indiscriminately, developing unbiased love and care for others.

Another day in Tokyo involved another busy schedule. His Holiness spent the morning at the Liaison Office of his Representative for East-Asia, where he highlighted the historical connections between Tibetans and Japanese, being interviewed by Sapio magazine, and then gracing a Buddhist studies conference organized by the Drepung Gomang Academy of Japan.

His Holiness perhaps spoke most bluntly during the magazine interview. The interviewer asked about the future of the institution of the Dalai Lama, to which His Holiness answered candidly, “the lineage of Dalai Lamas began in

His Holiness the Dalai Lama attends global ...

One solution is suggested by Professor Akira Miyawaki of Yokohama University, who advocates the dense planting of indigenous trees. Professor Miyawaki was indisposed and his presentation was made on his behalf by Professor Nikawa Makoto. He explained that Miyawaki isn’t content only to give advice, he acts. In his view life is what is important and forests have many ways to protect life. He has planted forests in the vicinity of polluting power stations, but he has also observed that when earthquakes destroy buildings, trees more often than not, remain standing. Therefore a forest is a place of shelter.

Having planted 40 million trees so far, Miyawaki considers he is planting for the future and his approach to dense planting results in 20 years in the kind of mature forest that might take 200 years to grow if left to itself.

He views tree planting as a way to protect loved ones. He tells a story of a little girl whose parents were concerned because she never laughed. He involved her in planting trees and she began to smile. Miyawaki believes in creating a forest of life to protect humankind.

Dr Murakami Kazuo, an old friend of His Holiness’s, told the audience that the key word he was going to talk about was ‘genes’, which he described as switches that turn actions on or off. In recommending that we turn off negative genes and turn on positive ones, he said that a change of heart can surprise our genes. We can turn them on by changing our state of mind. He is a proponent of the positive power of laughter. He showed evidence of experiments he has conducted with rats. Tickling them releases their stress and activates their positive genes. He said he is conducting research into the similar therapeutic value of prayer, focusing on monks at the Shingon Monastery on Mount Koya.

Murakami concluded that part of our trouble is that we only think of ourselves and our own country. He said we have to learn to live simpler more modest lives.

Invited to comment, His Holiness said how impressed he was with the Professors’ work. The account of planting trees prompted him to remember a suggestion

he has made in Australia that if trees were steadily planted inland from the coast it would be possible to make the land more productive. Similarly, he has speculated about the possibility of colossal solar energy installations in the Sahara, where there is abundant sunlight, to drive desalination plants. The freshwater thus produced could then be used to green the desert, providing crops for millions of people.

“One of my friends in India,” His Holiness said, “the Gandhian environmentalist and leader of the Chipko movement, Sunderlal Bahuguna, asked me whenever I can and wherever I am to spread the word about the importance of planting trees and caring for them. And I agreed to do so, as I am doing now.

“One of the important aspects of caring for the environment is taking a sufficiently broad view. A few years ago the results of a summit in Copenhagen were disappointing because too many participants put national interest ahead of world interest. They overlooked the obvious fact that if the world is doing well, we all do well.

“Instead of wasting millions of dollars on weapons we may never use, the money should be put to more positive ends. And it’s no use waiting for our leaders to take action, we the people have to take action to show our disapproval of these instruments of war and violence. This is in our interest, because invariably when things go wrong it’s ordinary people who suffer.”

As the meeting was coming to an end, Professor Ryuichi Yamamoto suggested that panels like this one, consisting not only of scientists, but also experts in ethics, should be convened to advise.

An environmental declaration was read out in Japanese and English which began with a basic understanding that the natural environment of our planet is facing a serious crisis. It went on to specify guidelines for action: 1. Maintain a serious interest in and moral conduct towards the global environment and carry out ongoing environmental education and awarenessraising activities so that an international ethics panel

Tibetans and supporters call for medical parole for ...

“Tenzin Delek Rinpoche has been in prison for 13 years and is known to be in extremely poor health with a serious heart condition and high blood pressure,” said Yunten Lobsang, a former student of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche. “During a rare visit to see Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, his family spoke to a doctor who told them that he believed Tenzin Delek Rinpoche had a serious heart condition for which he needed surgery,” he added. An official application for medical parole was made by Tenzin Delek’s family in 2014. Authorities have not responded to the application nor have they granted visitation rights to the family. Under Chinese law, Tenzin Delek is entitled to both visitation rights and medical parole.

Charged with “crimes of terror and incitement of

separatism,” Tenzin Delek was sentenced to death, with a 2-year reprieve, on 2 December 2002 by the Kardze (CH: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate People’s Court. His conviction was based on a confession obtained under torture from his alleged accomplice, Lobsang Dondrup, who was sentenced to death and executed on 26 January 2003. Tenzin Delek’s death sentence was lessened to life sentence in 2005. During the trial, no evidence other than the confession of Lobsang Dondrup was offered as Tenzin Delek maintained his innocence throughout. No court documents have been released to date, Tenzin Delek was provided no legal representation, and the case continues to be shrouded in absolute secrecy.

Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Penpa

the late 14th century, whereas the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet took place about seven centuries before that. So, similarly, in the future, whether a Dalai Lama is there or not the Buddhist tradition will remain. The Nalanda tradition is not dependent on one individual.”

When the interviewer protested by claiming that the Dalai Lama was the symbol of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, His Holiness simply said that this was an incorrect interpretation.

Monday, April 6th His Holiness joined a panel taking part in a Global Environmental Forum for the Next Generation before an audience of 1100 at the Yomiuri Hall. He acknowledged the many environmental challenges we face today, including population growth and climate change. He also took time to address commend Japan’s strong opposition to nuclear weapons.

“I strongly approve of your opposition to nuclear weapons and urge you to keep it up... Instead of wasting millions of dollars of weapons we dare never use, the money should be put to more positive ends. And it’s no use waiting for our leaders to take action, we the people have to take action to show our disapproval of these instruments of war and violence. This is in our interest, because invariably when things go wrong it’s ordinary people who suffer.”

The preceding two days included a trip to Aichi Gakuin University, originally founded as a Soto Zen training center in 1876, several private audiences, interviews with Japanese journalists, and finally the 40th anniversary celebration of the All Japan Soto Young Priest Association, where his Holiness gave a talk and answered questions from the crowd.

His Holiness will give a Buddhist teaching April 12th and 13th in Tokyo based on The Heart Sutra & Nagarjuna’s Commentary on Bodhichitta, organized by the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for East-Asia at Showa Joshi Hitomi Hall. ... continued from front page

can be established.

2. Plant three trees per person or provide the support for those trees to be planted to restore a green earth.

3. Turn on the genes of altruism through smiles and prayer to lead humble lives in harmony with all of nature.

Thanks were offered to the members of the audience who had turned out on Monday; to Professor Murakami for inviting His Holiness; and to His Holiness for sharing his precious time. A final appeal was made: As His Holiness suggests, let’s not wait, but stir ourselves to action.”

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“The Chinese authorities did not return her body to the family, who are under close surveillance. A traditional prayer service was held at Khado’s home day after she self-immolated,” sources added.

This incident brought the total verified number of self-immolations in Tibet to 137 since February, 2009 and and of them 118 have reportedly passedaway due to their severe injuries.

The Tibetan self-immolators have called for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom for the Tibetan people. Most parts of Tibet have suffered severe crackdowns and been under heightened restrictions and controls.

The Chinese government has blamed outside forces for the self-immolations, particularly His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration- regarded by China as a subversive.

But, Tibetans have denied such accusations, saying that the main cause of self-immolation is “Beijing’s hard-line policies, including political repression, economic marginalization, environmental destruction, cultural assimilation and denial of religious freedom.”

Chinese government says Tibet has always been part of its territory, but Tibetans say Tibet was virtually independent for centuries until Chinese troops invaded in the 1950s.

By Molly Lortie,: April 07, 2015

Bhubaneshwar, Odisha — Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay spoke to over 25,000 students at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences in Bhubaneshwar, Odhisha on Monday, April 6, 2015. The institute was established as a residential institute for tribal people and now is the largest institute of its kind in the world.

Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay was specially invited by the institute to speak to the students to inspire the pupils who are mostly from backward and tribal areas of the state. He made the most of his inspirational speech by speaking about the importance and impact of hard work and taking control of our own destinies.

“We are all the same whether we are from a village or a city. We should never feel discouraged because we are from a humble background. We all have aspirations and we all have the equal right to pursue it,” Sikyong told the students.

“Winning or losing is determined by our attitude.

If we feel we can’t succeed because we are from a humble background or because we are born in a village, then we have lost even before the battle has begun. So, its imperative that we have a winning attitude in life,” Sikyong said.

Sikyong explained that our attitude should be accompanied by a whole-hearted determination to work towards our goal. “This determination would later become our habit and this habit

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay speaking to over 25,000 students in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences based in Bhubaneshwar,Odisha State of India, on April 5, 2015. Photo: CTA/DIIR

would define our character. This character would eventually lead us to our success. So, you see, success is right in our hands,” Sikyong said, encouragingly.

Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay also narrated a brief biography of himself, beginning from his humble background in a remote village in north-eastern India. He shared stories of farm life, his childhood and the effort he put in to reach where he is today.

Sikyong concluded his speech by urging the students to study hard, perform their best in life and then return to serve their society so that others can benefit from their efforts and can have greater opportunities to succeed, like Sikyong himself strives to do.

Seminar highlights Indian implications of an exploited Tibet

By Molly Lortie,: April 03, 2015

Patna — The Bihari chapter of the India Tibet Friendship Society collaborated with Patna college to hold a seminar on March 30, 2015 entitled “Tibbat Ka Prashan: Bharat ki Bhumika.” The event was attended by members of the society in addition to Tibet supporters and students of Patna College.

Professor Subroto Adhikari opened the seminar by describing the history of India and Tibet’s political relationship. He recalled the Shimla Agreement of 1913, signed by British Indian and Tibetan representatives, which clearly signified Tibet as a sovereign nation. He concluded that from historical and legal dimensions, Tibet was sovereign until it was occupied by China in 1959.

The rest of the seminar touched on the implications that Chinese occupation has on India and other South Asian countries. Tibet, known sometimes as the ‘Roof of the World,’ is rich in natural resources such as both minerals and water, as Tibet serves as the river head for all the major rivers that flow

Shri Surender Kumar, Regional Convener of Core Group for Tibetan cause-India, addressing the gathering. Photo: ITCO

through India and 7 other countries in Asia.

Chinese exploitation and environmental degradation within Tibet directly affects India and all downstream nations. Therefore, the Tibet issue is of India’s own interest.

The seminar concluded with the note that India needs to support the Central Tibetan Administration’s Middle Way Policy for genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people, as further occupation of the Chinese stands in the way of justice, but also is a detriment to the well being of India as a nation.

Sikyong: “invest at least 10hrs a day for education”

By Molly Lortie, :April 13, 2015

Dharamshala — Tibetan political leader Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay spoke at a ceremony on April 10th honoring the 128 class XII students graduating from TCV Suja School in Bir, Himachal Pradesh.

These students, mostly from Tibet, are the first batch to graduate in Humanities from the TCV Suja School.

“Many of you are from Tibet and you carry a lot of hopes placed by your parents and families in Tibet in terms of education. The Central Tibetan Administration considers it an important duty to act as your guardian and ensure you achieve the best of results in education,” Sikyong said at the event attended by the staff and students of the school and other local dignitaries.

Sikyong went on to say that Tibetan students

have an added responsibility in their education, as it not only serves the purpose of benefiting their own lives, but also serves as a contribution for the greater Tibetan cause.

“The present cabinet gives education the top priority and accordingly makes a huge investment in it,” Sikyong said adding that there is a direct link between education and development of a society.

“We carry on our shoulders the hopes and aspirations of our brethrens inside Tibet and the only way we can go about fulfilling that hope and aspiration is through education,” Singsong said.

Sikyong shook hands and presented a Khata to every graduating student and wished them luck for their college after urging all the students to “invest at least 10 hours of everyday for your education in order to succeed.”

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Tsering, attended the event as the chief guest. He highlighted the importance of campaigning and harolding attention to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s cause. He said, “It is very important that we have international support for such a movement because I have met several former political prisoners who told me that attention from the international community definitely affects the situation in prisons in Tibet. All of us gathering here will definitely help in gathering support in the release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.”

Attendees of the event signed a petition from the International Tibet Network appealing to world governments to urgently pursue the medical parole of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, which will be delivered to Foreign Ministers of various governments on June 21, 2015, International Day for Victims of Torture.

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay with the 2015 Outgoing batch of TCV Suja with their staff members at TCV Suja, Bir, onApril 10, 2015. Photo: CTA/DIIR

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His Holiness finishes 2-day teaching in Tokyo

Mongolians, Taiwanese and Chinese here for these two days of teachings. This hall is part of the Showa Joshi Women’s University, which seems an appropriate setting to explain Perfection of Wisdom teachings, since they are often referred to as the mother of all Buddhas.”

After a brief introduction to Buddhism, His Holiness jumped into addressing one of the key parts of the Heart of Wisdom; cessation and liberation.

“Nagarjuna describes the meaning of cessation as occurring when emptiness overcomes the destructive emotions. Khunu Lama Rinpoche on the other hand explained, and I prefer this, that the destructive emotions dissolve into emptiness. Whereas the Buddha expounded the meaning of emptiness during the second Turning of the Wheel, during the third, he introduced the clear light nature of the mind.”

In conclusion he cited the Heart of Wisdom itself:

“All the Buddhas of the past, present and future have depended, do and will depend upon the perfection of wisdom. Thereby they became, are becoming and will become unsurpassably, perfectly and completely awakened Buddhas.’

The second day of His Holiness’s teachings began with a recitation of the Heart of Wisdom Sutra in Japanese. Before beginning the empowerment, His Holiness explained the importance of empowerment when practicing tantra.

“Although other tantric traditions employ similar techniques, what distinguishes Buddhist tantric practice is that it is done in the context of an understanding of emptiness and the awakening mind. It is also an opportunity to employ subtler levels of consciousness, the most subtle being the primordial mind of clear light. This is what is sometimes referred to as Buddha nature. It is the extraordinary mind that is eventually transformed into the body of the Buddha at enlightenment.”

After lunch, His Holiness explained what is implied by the word beginningless when we say that sentient beings have been caught in cyclic existence for beginningless time. The substantial cause of consciousness is another consciousness and it is the continuum of moments of consciousness that is beginningless. He touched on the nature of suffering, noting that while the basic pain of what we acknowledge as suffering is obvious, what is described as the suffering of change and the all-pervasive suffering of conditioning we often mistake for pleasure.

His Holiness concluded the session with a short account of the ‘Three Essential Moments’ by Gendun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama. It is based on a teaching originating with the Indian Avalokiteshvara adept, Maitriyogi. It describes practices to do in life, at the time of death and in the intermediate state.

With the conclusion of the teaching, His Holiness’s trip to Japan is finished and he flies back to India today.

century, the important thing is not only to improve our material well-being. All over the world we see signs of moral confusion. People are under the control of negative emotions. The important thing is to try to be a good human being, to be warm-hearted and confident.

“Most of you recite the Heart of Wisdom Sutra every day, but recitation alone is not enough, you should try to understand what it means. I often tell people how important it is to be 21st century Buddhists, basing faith and practice not just on ancestral tradition but on a sound understanding. That’s how we can uproot

ignorance and transform our minds.”

Tibetans and well-wishers offering a traditional welcome to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama who returned to his exile hometown following a series of teachings and public talks in Japan. He was received at the Gaggal Airport, which is an hour drive from McLeod Ganj,

by Senior leaders and officials of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, and heads of major Tibetan non-governmental organizations.

His Holiness’ upcoming schedule include a visit to Australia in May, where he will conduct teachings, public talks, and empowerment.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama conferring the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment at Showa Joshi Women’s University in Tokyo, Japan on April 13, 2015. Photo/Tenzin Jigmey

By Molly Lortie: April 14, 2015

Tokyo, Japan — Sunday April 12th, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave the first of two teachings on the Heart Sutra in Tokyo, Japan. His Holiness began his talk in Memorial Hall at 9:30 before an audience of 2100, consisting of Japanese, in addition to 370 Koreans, 120 Mongolians and 1000 Chinese, mostly from Taiwan.

The Heart of Wisdom Sutra, the topic of His Holiness’s two day teaching, belongs to a collection of texts known as the Perfection of Wisdom teachings that in their most extensive form comprise a sutra of 100,000 lines in 12 volumes. The Heart of Wisdom is generally regarded as consisting of 25 lines. The explicit meaning of the Perfection of Wisdom is emptiness of intrinsic existence.

His Holiness began by welcoming the audience.

He said, “I’m pleased to see Japanese, Koreans,

His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet concludes two-week visit to Japan

By Yangchen Dolma,: April 15, 2015

New Delhi. India, 14 April 2015 - At the conclusion of a successful two week visit to Japan, during which he has met and interacted with Japanese scientists, politicians, doctors, Buddhist communities, students and members of the general public, he had final brief meetings with Tibetans and Taiwanese.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate encouraged Tibetans to work for all humanity not only to pursue their own interests, according to a new report by the Dalai Lama’s office.

“Being of service to others is part of our religious tradition,” he said. “In today’s world, Tibetan culture is attracting attention, so it would be a shame if we can’t keep it up ourselves. I tell people abroad that Tibetans have a reputation for being warm-hearted, but if Tibetans fight among themselves and kill each it’s a disgrace.

Get together, discuss what you’re doing, offer constructive criticism and try to improve.

“With regard to the problems facing Tibet, we are trying our best to solve them, but we need international support. Things have to change.

Transparency has to come, it can’t be avoided.

The Chinese authorities have tried to suppress Tibetans with violence, they have tried to eliminate our identity, but we’re resilient, we survive. When China really addresses what Tibetans need, the problem can be solved.”

The main theme of His Holiness’s talk to about 1000 Taiwanese was that they should back up their interest in Buddhism with study. He said: “I’m 80 years old, but I’m still studying the works of the Nalanda masters. That’s what I encourage you to do too. Today, in the 21st

‘Exhibition on H.H the Dalai Lama’s Body of work’ is a project that I initiated on 10th December 2012. In the past two and half years, I was able to conduct over forty-five presentations primarily in centers of learning and other places all over India. The aim of this project is to inculcate in the minds of the truth and peace-loving people, a sense of recognition and gratitude for the gift of wisdom bestowed by His Holiness on how to live a meaningful life. Moreover, it also seeks to spread words about the deeds and accomplishments of His Holiness throughout his life as a guiding light to us all.

Some of my forthcoming projects are as follow; 1) To conduct a scholar debate on His Holiness’s Thoughts & Ideas on Religion, Politics, Health, Environment, Compassion and other disciplines by a panel of experts related and intimate with His Holiness.

2) Reading comprehension contest on His Holiness’s multi-faced works in their proper disciplinary entity.

3) The ranking essays of this competition will be published in ‘Khongsa Chok-kyi khyenpa,’ which will be a journal of scholarly articles to be launched soon. Therefore, I request professional and other aspirant writers from everywhere to support me in this venture by contributing their articles on any of the following three topics.

Topics for Essay Competition; 1) Analyzing the purpose behind the Dalai Lama’s body of work and value of his ideas.

2) The Dalai Lama’s guide to an ethical way of life beyond religion.

3) The evolution and practical implementation of the Dalai Lama’s tenets of Peace & Non-violence.

Essays in all kind of genre are entertained. There is no strict word limit, but try not to exceed beyond 2880 words. The deadline falls on 13th July, 2015. Submit the essays via email or post at the address mentioned below. Please make sure to leave your contact details.

The essays can be written in Tibetan and English and will be judged by a penal of experts in a transparent and unbiased manner.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama meeting with religious leaders, students, Tibetans and Taiwanse in Tokyo during a two-week visit to Japan in April 2015. Photo: Tenzin Jigmey

US Congressman calls for a medical parole to jailed Tibetan monk

By Yangchen Dolma,: April 09, 2015

Washington, DC — A US Congressman has urged the US government to raise with the Chinese Government to allow a medical parole to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche citing news reports of the Tibetan Buddhist leader’s ill health.

Jim McGovern, a member of the US House of Representatives, sent a letter to the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Sarah Sewall, marking the 13th anniversary of the arrest and detention of Tenzin Rinpoche, RTT reported.

“I respectfully request that you and others at the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in China make his release on Medical Parole a priority so that he might have the opportunity for medical treatment outside Tibet and China as soon as possible,” McGovern, says.

On 2002 April 7, the Rinpoche was arrested on false charges of exploding bombs and distributing separatist leaflets. His conviction was based on a confession obtained under torture from his alleged accomplice, Lobsang Dondrup, who was sentenced to death and

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Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay with Congressman James McGovern in the House of Representatives during his visit to Washington DC, US, on May 11, 2013. Photo: TPI

executed on 26 January 2003.

Tenzin Delek’s death sentence was lessened to life sentence in 2005. During the trial, no evidence other than the confession of Lobsang Dondrup was offered as Tenzin Delek maintained his innocence throughout. No court documents have been released to date, Tenzin Delek was provided no legal representation, and the case continues to be shrouded in absolute secrecy.

People who know about Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s condition say that he is in need of

urgent medical care. In his letter, Congressman McGovern says that “it is my understanding that he is eligible to be released under Chinese law under the terms of Medical Parole.”

Recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated monk in the 1980s, Rinpoche has been a community leader and a staunch advocate for the protection and preservation of Tibetan culture, religion, and way of life for decades.

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche is widely respected by the people (both Tibetan and Chinese) in his home county of Lithang in eastern Tibet. Over 40,000 of them have signed their names to a petition asking for his release.

The International Campaign for Tibet has called for the immediate release of the Rinpoche and urged governments to continue to explicitly raise his case and that of other Tibetan political prisoners with the Chinese authorities. ICT urged the State Department to act on the communication from Congressman Jim McGovern and raise the issue of medical parole for Rinpoche with the Chinese authorities.

Awards and prizes for the top-ranking essays; • • • •

First second Third Consolation

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50 books by H.H the Dalai Lama or 25000 Rs (Either of them) 30 books by H.H the Dalai Lama or 20000 Rs (Either of them) 20 books by H.H the Dalai Lama or 15000 Rs (Either of them) 10 books by H.H the Dalai Lama to 10 winners

The winners are allowed to making his/her own decisions regarding prize books or money.

Note:

1) On any of the topics above, it is preferable to get an insight by referring books of His Holiness.

2) Try to inject not only your own ideas, but also the opinion of others in order to add analytical value to the essay.

3) Contact for further information.

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