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Chinese Magazine Launched in Taiwan

Tibet's Leader Receives Mother Teresa Memorial Award

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

Mr Dawa Tsering (1st R), Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, launches the quarterly magazine 'Kun-sel Woe-Nang' at the Office of Tibet in Taipei, Taiwan, 16 November 2010. Photo:Tibet Religious Foundation, Taipei.

Taipei: The Office of Tibet or Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama based in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday (16 November) launched its first quarterly magazine in Chinese named Kun-Sel Woe-Nang. His Holiness the Continues on Page 3

China Sentences a Tibetan to Death

Call for Justice: Sonam Tsering, native of Derge Palyul County, sentenced to death with two-year reprieve.

Photo: Tibet Net

Dharamshala: A Chinese court in Tibetan capital Lhasa had sentenced a Tibetan man to death sentence with a two-year reprieve over his alleged role in the 2008 peaceful protest, according to a report published on Saturday (20 November) by Tibetan official media (Tibet.net). Sonam Tsering, a native of Derge Palyul County in Kham province of Eastern Tibet, received the suspended death

Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th the Dalai Lama Thursday (18 November) received an award in honour of his commitments to human values, fostering inter-religious dialogue, and the welfare of the Tibetan people.

At a glittering ceremony Thursday at the Hotel Taj Palace, Indian capital, the 75 year old Tibetan Nobel Luarte honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice from bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee and sisters of the Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, India.

The Nobel Laureate also spoke on positive action for peace of mind and happiness. Friday morning, His Holiness delivered the inaugural address on "The Art of Happiness in Troubled Times" at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2010 at the Taj Palace Hotel Friday. This afternoon, the Tibetan leader will also deliver the Silver Jubilee Lecture on "Human Approach to World Peace" for the Institute for Social Sciences at their premises.

His Holiness receives the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice from Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee, New Delhi, Nov. 18 Photo: AP

Cultural Genocide Taking Place in Tibet

Infringements on Religious freedom

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces the release of the 2010 International Religious Freedom Report November 17, 2010 at the State Departement in Washington, DC. Photo: Reuters

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My Husband Is Not A Criminal

Washington: China continues harassment of Tibetan Buddhists and such infringements on religious freedom "strain" bonds that back democratic societies, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters at a press conference in Continues on Page 7 Teachings for Russian Buddhists

Lhamo Tso, Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen's wife visiting Reporters Without Borders based in French capital, Paris, France. Photo: Reporters Without Borders

Paris: Lhamo Tso, wife of the famous Tibetan filmmaker and political prisoner Dhondup Wangchen has been touring Europe, recently (October 03-November 03, 2010), to boost awareness of her husband's situation. Wangchen was arrested in March 2008 and sentenced on 28th December 2009 to six years in prison for "subversion".

Wangchen's film, Leaving Fear Behind is a 25-minute documentary that shows Tibetans in the Amdho region expressing their views on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the Beijing Olympics and Chinese legislation. Wangchen managed to send his videocassettes out of Tibet before he was arrested.

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Video grab of Karan Thapar interviewing His Holiness the Dalai Lama/File photo

By Hindustan Times

New Delhi: For the past 20 years, intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet, Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Friday (19 November). "I have heard that many monasteries in Tibet are becoming more like museums and monks just caretakers. For the last 20 years, I have been hearing that intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet," the Dalai Lama told journalist Karan Thapar in an interview, according to a post on the website of the Central

Tibetan Administration.

But the Nobel laureate said: "We need more research work to confirm this." On promotion of Mandarin as a medium of instruction in schools in Tibet, the Dalai Lama said some Tibetans told him that some kind of 'semi-cultural revolution' is taking place in Tibet and Tibetan language might well get wiped out soon.

On being asked what Tibetans were doing to fight the threats posed to their language and culture, he said: "By asking for genuine autonomy in People's Republic of China."

A Russian girl listen to the teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India on 30 November 2010. Photo: TPI

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Beside the Harmony Mask, China Held Symposium on Minorities

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Pos

The so called symposium was hosted at the Central University of Nationalities, with invited scholars and minority literature critics speaking on the new ethnic literary developments in China, 20 November 2010.

Photo from China Tibet Online.

writing the reality of Tibet by many Tibetan writers and intellectuals, China claimed that it has held the first symposium on minority ethnic literature on Nov 20. "Tibetan youth writers were widely praised and well recognized by the attending scholars and minority literature critics," reported the so called 'China Tibet Online' November 21.

"The symposium was hosted at the Central University of Nationalities, with invited scholars and minority literature critics speaking on the new ethnic literary developments in China, the report continued.

During the meeting, young writers from Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur ethnic groups gathered together to exchange opinions on literary writing and discuss over some of the recent representative works.

"The discussion was highlighted by the well-known writers and critics' recognition of the novels written by Tibetan young writers," report further claimed.

But with a very limited freedom of writing and speaking in Tibet and across China, authorizes have detained three Tibetan writers including Tashi Rabten earlier this year, have been tried on charges of 'inciting activities to split the nation,' atleast 50 intellectuals were arrested since 2008 the Tibet Post International has learnt.

Tashi Rabten arrest was carried out by a group of 16 police officials who ransacked student rooms as well as confiscated cellular phones, laptop computers and books from students.

He had edited the banned literary magazine Shar Dungri (Eastern Conch-Hill) covering the 2008 protests in Tibet and had coauthored a collection called "Written in Blood".

The lack of independent observers in Tibet allows the Chinese authorities to arrest and convict Tibetan journalists, writers, bloggers and environmentalists without any form of due process. The government prevents the foreign media from working in Tibet so that there are no witnesses.

Since 2008, over 50 Tibetan writers, poets, journalists and bloggers were arrested who expressing by their several articles, poems and essays for their solidarity with the jailed Tibetan protesters and paying tribute to those killed by Chinese security forces and criticizing the Chinese government.

Since March 2008, over 224 Tibetans have been killed, 1,294 injured and 290 sentenced, more than 5,600 were arrested or detained and over 1,000 disappeared after the Chinese armed military deadly cracked down in all parts of Tibet.

Moreover, many major Tibetan websites have been forced to close down and all of the web-blogs in Tibetan language are censored and shut-down.

The so called China's new role models which believing Hu had made major contributions to ethnic harmony at a ceremony in 2009, at which communist head Hu Jintao claimed "the promotion of harmony and prosperity among all ethnic groups."

What kind of harmony and prosperity he brought into Tibet? But this pointless making him the one of the dictorships. Hu's harmony role model can only means genocide and torture in the human history. Because the whole world knows that using of military and gun cannot bring harmony and prosperity in the society, but only repression and voilence.

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China's Innermost Secret Fears, Golden Moment Ugly Truth

By Amy Elmgren, The Tibet Post International

Dharamshala: A presentation by Mr Gabriel Lafitte, an Australian academic and development policy consultant to the Environment and Development Desk (EDD) of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile was held in Dharamsala, northern India, on Monday (Nov 22). Entitled China's innermost Secret Fears, the talk was organised by the Tibetan Women's Association and attended by 30 Tibetans and foreign tourists, who took part in a question-andanswer session.

Mr Lafitte told the audience that on November 1 repressive new regulations intruding into management of Tibetan monasteries came into force. These were denounced by Kalon Tsering Phuntsok as "an evil design on the part of the Chinese government to obstruct Buddhist teachings and its sacred transmissions inside Tibet, and makes it extremely difficult for monastic institutions to undertake their important religious activities".

Paradoxically, a leading academic analyst of Chinese policy wrote the following about the new regulations: "China's new religious policy expands the institutional autonomy of religious organizations, limits the power of religious affairs bureaus, and provides for administrative appeal, judicial challenge, and sanctioning errant officials...

"We thus view the new religious policy as an effort by the Chinese government to fold the management of religion into its larger systemic reform portfolio, to synchronize an anachronistic policy, and to integrate religious policy that diverges from its systemic socioeconomic and political reforms."

What sense can be made of this contradiction? The most common exile response is to say the Chinese leaders are liars and atheists, with no business interfering in what they cannot possibly comprehend. The Kalon Tripa (Tibetan Prime Minister) said that the People's Republic of China, which claims itself to be officially an atheist state, cannot have the authority to formulate rules and regulations on the management of religious affairs of Tibetan Buddhism.

But the contradictions go deeper Why do China's leaders insist they must oppress Tibet? There are many obvious answers to this most basic of questions, yet none of the usual answers get to the heart of China's fear and loathing of Tibetan culture, especially its leaders' hatred of Tibetan religion. People say it is because the Chinese are communists and communists hate religion, as if nothing in China has changed since Mao told the Dalai Lama in 1954 that religion is poison. Now the Communist Party is barely communist in its ideology, but the ferocious antagonism to Tibetan culture continues. We cannot create dialogue with China's elite until we understand what drives that negative attitude. So we need first to clarify our own thinking. We can do this by looking back at the past

century of China's violent struggles to achieve modernity, discovering deep hostility to institutional religion throughout.

If it is not communism but modernity that is the antagonist of Tibetan Buddhism, in the eyes of China's elite, then we can identify the core problem, and stop blaming communism. One reason the world is not listening to Tibetans, though it used to listen not so long ago, is that Tibetans continue to name communism as the enemy, and those who deal with China every day see little sign of communism.

Once we identify China's total determination to attain complete modernity as the reason why Tibetan culture has to be repressed - and Tibetan language removed from the classroom - we know what we are up against. China's quest for modernity is older and deeper than communism. The Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) was just as committed as the Communist Party to strictly controlling religion, because it holds back modernity and a strong state.

How did it come about that modernity sees public religion as its enemy?

What are the origins of this antagonism? Can religion play a constructive role in public debate and policy, without being a hindrance to modernity? When Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche once said he was anti-modern, did he mean he wanted to go backwards, or further forward, beyond the limitations and materialist obsessions of modernity?

Japan, like China, was suddenly faced with the challenge of modernity but took a different path, and now manages to be both modern, developed, prosperous and entirely Japanese. Why is the Chinese path to modernity more violent, contradictory, repressive, fragile and fearful of collapsing into chaos?

The fundamental question is: How did it come about that the project of creating a modern society, of literate, productive individuals, made religion into its enemy? To answer this we must go beyond China and Japan, to Europe, to discover assumptions inherited by Asian modernisers. We must look at the European invention of modernity, as a new way of understanding the purpose of human life, a new set of assumptions about the sources of human happiness. We must look at the great revolutions in France and Russia - violent attempts at attaining modernity as fast as possible.

Modernity is much more than railways and bridges, power stations and skyscrapers. It is a mindset, an aggregation of assumptions that have become naturalised and no longer visible.

In the modernist world view, religion can be reduced to being merely an expression of psychological and social needs. The inner legitimacy and inner subjective experience of religious practice is denied and obscured. Instead an aloof, distant, objective, scientific stance is taken, in which religion can be explained by the sciences of sociology and psychology, as the yearnings of people

for happiness, which has sedimented over time into specific practices.

Religion is no more than its observable practices, and those practices do not promote rational productivity, so at best they are useless and at worst are obstacles to the creation of a new focus for the aspirations and yearnings of the masses - i.e. the nation-state.

All of the above were core beliefs of not only the Communist Party of China but also the Kuomintang; and of the Kemalist revolutionaries of Turkey, the PRI revolutionary regime in Mexico, Soviet Russia and revolutionary France.

James Tong, political science professor at the University of California and close observer of China has expressed the hope that: "Once the modernizing state has consolidated its power, state-religion relations may evolve from competitive conflict to accommodative cooperation." This is a similar optimism to regular hopes expressed by the Dalai Lama - that as China matures it can relax and become more tolerant. It is the hope that modernity is not an endless, allembracing project, forever requiring the exclusive loyalty and energy of all citizens - that at a certain point China can feel confident it has attained modernity, has at last caught up with the leading developed countries, can stand among the great nations as an equal, and no longer needs to prove anything.

But is modernity a destination, and an attainable one which is known to have been attained when it arrives?

Above all, the party-state clearly does not feel it has 'consolidated its power' in Tibet. In fact, it reads the unhappiness of the Tibetan people, so obvious since early 2008, as a clear sign that it has yet to consolidate the power of the modern nation-state and must crush the disloyal Buddhists ever more fiercely. Elsewhere in China, modernity is flowering and maturing, but in Tibet the modernity project remains at a preliminary and tenuous stage, and might collapse altogether if tight control is relaxed. So Professor Tong may be right about other parts of China, where the modern state may be willing to curb the harsh and arbitrary powers of the official religious bureaus - but not in Tibet, where their obnoxious intrusions into the realm of the transcendental is as zealous as ever.

This is not an academic debate about vague terms like modernity, religion, superstition and the nation-state. We need to understand what drives the antagonism. Why is it that the Communist Party remains locked in seeing the Tibetan monasteries as a seriously threatening enemy? Until we understand how this has happened, we cannot say we have found a language in which any future negotiations may begin. Until we acknowledge the roots of China's fears, it is a dialogue of the deaf, on all sides.

But are there ways in which this conflict can be reframed?

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natural world where the forces of nature are untamed, and that the modern alternative, of conquering nature, can successfully replace irrational yearnings with rational productivity guided by a strong state.

In vain do religious practitioners protest that the modernizers know nothing about the true purpose and practice of Buddhism. But what if Buddhism could demonstrate it is actually rational and scientific?

This is where, as usual, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been way ahead of everyone. He has pioneered a dialogue with neuroscientists, over a long period, and given much of his precious time to it, even when many of the scientists seemed to have little to offer. Yet he persists to this day in the collaborative rediscovery of Buddhist logic, philosophy, epistemology and ontology as rational - long predating the insights of 20th century physics and quantum mechanics, and 21st century neuroscience.

His Holiness, while unafraid to drop old metaphors such as the earth being flat, has not sought to change Buddhism, as Vivekananda and Ramana Maharshi more radically repackaged Hinduism to accommodate modernity. Buddhism has not changed, but it is open to science.

For years I watched these welldocumented dialogues, and thought the Dalai Lama was simply exercising a personal curiosity. Not until much later did it dawn on me that his dialogues with so many scientists are part of an undoing of what began in the European revolutions of the 18th century, and their entrenched assumption that churches and religion are by their nature forces of backwardness, superstition and irrationality.

Finding modern ways of not only representing Buddhism to nonBuddhist audiences, but modern ways of practising Buddhism, is of utmost importance. In modern times people come to Buddhism as individuals, seeking self-realisation. They may conceive of their quest as a purely personal one, having accepted modernity's definition of religion as purely personal, yet the practice itself connects them to the entire community of fellow practitioners (Gendun being the 'personal' name for one who connects themself to the Sangha, or 'community of enlightened individuals') and to connecting, as imaginatively as possible, with all sentient beings.

This is a task that not only liberates inji, Chinese and Tibetan practitioners, but also addresses the prejudices and entrenched blindness of China's leaders. It shows that Buddhism, far from being an enemy of modernity, is entirely modern in its engagement with the powerful agency of the indiviual, the capacity of the modern self to transcend.

China's greatest fear is that modernity is skin deep, and is easily lost. The gleaming modernity of the glass towers is just a skin, covering what lies behind - a vast sea of seething irrationality, superstition, ignorance and mutual obligation, which modern China left behind only yesterday and which could reassert itself at any time. Modern China fears that its grip on modernity, and on the hearts of the masses who have yet to benefit much from modernity, is fragile, and

could easily be shaken.

I used to walk the streets of Beijing in my frequent visits in the 1990s, marvelling at the new skyscrapers, the archetypal symbols of modernity springing up at an astounding pace, all along the wide straight streets bulldozed by the architects of modernity. But I would also walk through the shining glass, steel and concrete and out the back door, and suddenly I would be in a hutong - the winding lanes of closely clustered courtyard houses of Chinese tradition - with peddlers on bicycles, full of life. Modernity was, at that time, only skin deep - just a facade, with the real Beijing just one glossy building away from the grand avenues of straight-line modern rationality.

Modernity is a vision of human perfection which is illusory, a vision that always recedes, like a mirage, as one advances towards it. Modernity can never be attained, because there are always fresh areas to be conquered. Not only can we never become fully modern, we have never been modern, if look carefully, as the French philosopher Bruno Latour reminds us.

The ideology of rationality, as Bruno Latour's ethnographies of scientists at work in their laboratories show us, requires editing out all the messiness, emotionality, contradictions and confusions of daily existence.

Scientists edit themselves out of their writing, as if they are simply the messengers of externally existing valid truths of objective reality, which remain true until the next scientist reverses everything and establishes a new truth. The actual mess of laboratory life is made invisible, not only to the public, but to the scientists themselves.

It is no accident that when China removes nomads from their pastures, and forces them to live in squalid concrete huts, those huts are built in a straight line. Modernity worships the straight line. The straight line represents the capacity of the modern mind to discern the simple geometry embedded in the endless shapes of nature, the capacity to extract an abstraction that seems to be an ideal form, a law of nature, a basic principle of the universe, a key to unlocking mastery of the physical world. The straight line - and all geometric shapes - are thus given absolute status, as eternal, fixed truths, not just convenient and useful human conventions (which from a Buddhist viewpoint is all they are).

It is no accident that one of the earliest acts of the communist revolution was to bulldoze central Beijing, make huge straight boulevards (Chang'an) and greatly enlarge Tiannamen Square, lining it with strictly rectangular buildings proclaiming the party's power.

Straight lines rule. The ruler is king.

Now those straight lines have been imposed on nomadic lives. In China's eyes the irrational, ignorant, selfish, unreliable and unproductive nomads must be civilised, and civilisation begins with straight lines. This will teach them objective truth and the material base of everything that matters.

Modernity, in Tibet, is reducible to laughable tokens and fetishes such as the nomadic line village, built of concrete which is cold in winter, hot in summer, in which people now live useless lives, crowded together in

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A presentation of Mr Gabriel Lafitte Monday (22 November) was organised by Tibetan Women’s Association in Dharamshala on the topic of China’s innermost secret fears.

Photo: TPI/Sangay Dorjee

ways nomads are not used to, leaving little to do but get drunk, fight, play pool and steal. That is how China introduces its pedagogy of modernity.

That is how China deals with its deepest fear - that the nomads and the Tibetans turn their backs on Chinese modernity, given the chance, preferring instead the Buddhism of Tibet and the mantrayana path to inner transformation.

CHINA'S GOLDEN MOMENT: MAKING IT LAST FOR EVER. What do today's Chinese really care about, cherish and seek to protect at all costs? What is the main purpose of their life?

China's fast rise requires concentration of wealth and power.

Wealth created today must be ploughed back into creating greater wealth tomorrow, and not dissipated by the demands of the excluded, who ask for a fair price for their farmland gobbled up for new factories, or for basic health insurance, or decent schools in poor areas.

To an extraordinary and unsustainable degree China's wealth comes not from consumption, from the buying power of newly prosperous masses, as in mature capitalist countries.

China's wealth comes to a remarkable extent from investment, by the state and the big state-owned corporations, and the private entrepreneurs who enjoy favours from the party-state.

China's wealth is in its infrastructure, not in its homes. This is unsustainable.

Something is missing in the Chinese voices we can listen to. It is the voice of the peasants, the minorities, the exploited factory workers. Only rarely do we get a glimpse of their stories, their exclusion, their deepening mistrust of the party-state, the growing gulf of inequality. They are the majority, but are voiceless their protests and petitions for justice ruthlessly crushed.

But the party leaders know they are

running on borrowed time - that they cannot rely solely on nationalism, repression and vague promises of reform, for ever. Yet they are determined to maintain China's golden moment, the best opportunity for elite wealth formation in 5,000 years. If only they could control the chaos threatened by the unhappy masses, China's momentum could be maintained. This is why China's leaders routinely refer to the danger of chaos if tight control is relaxed. It serves their interests to activate the fears of Westerners and China's neighbours that chaos is always just below the surface, unless the party reinvigorates its dictatorship.

China's leaders know they are on the verge of becoming a world power, and [they believe that] only popular democracy, with its fairer distribution of wealth, could slow China's rise.

Soon Hong Kong will eclipse both New York and London as a global centre of finance. China's rise to technological parity with Western hitech manufacturers is now so fast the West is no longer confident it can always stay ahead and set the pace.

Instead, Western companies wanting to sell to markets in developing countries must now do so in partnership with their Chinese competitors or risk losing out altogether, because Chinese products are not only competitive on price but also quality. It may not be long before the Chinese currency becomes a global reserve currency, just as the US dollar today is the currency of last resort.

To China's leaders, the biggest threats to China's rise are internal. The Tibetans are just one of many internal forces calling for decentralisation, autonomy, fairness, basic rights and opportunity to participate in making policy.

Such forces are growing and must inevitably succeed, because they are steadily growing in legitimacy, even within the elite, and are harder to ignore than before. Within the elite,

in Beijing, where official policy is openly questioned, there is increasing support for greater democracy, and for letting different regions take different directions.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama foresaw all this long ago, when he said repeatedly that the best hope for Tibet is China's prosperity and confidence in itself.

China's prosperity and confidence are still superficial, not deep.

China is emerging as a regional power and even as a global power. Yet China's leaders constantly refer to the threat of chaos which will erupt if they loosen their tight grip, not only on ethnic minorities but on the poor, the urban migrants and the peasants.

Why is China so successful, yet so fragile? What is it about the combination of party-state and the capitalist entrepreneurs that makes this moment in China's rise so dynamic yet so unstable? Why are there so few voices in China calling for democracy, or for the rights of ethnic minorities?

Tibetans looking at Beijing from afar are missing something, which has been silenced, excluded from the public sphere, which China's leaders fear. International observers too, fascinated by China's wealth and success, are also missing any focus on the reality that China is still poor many hundreds of millions are excluded, held down, exploited, and increasingly resentful of the growing gap between rich and poor.

If we understand China's golden moment is a pact between the wealth creators and the social controllers, the corporations and the party-state, to monopolise both wealth and power, to the exclusion of all others, then China's rise and Chinese leaders fears fit together.

In a speech he gave in Shenzhen in August, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said: "If there is no guarantee of reform of the political system, then results obtained from the reform of the economic system may be lost, and the goal of modernisation cannot be achieved."

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Tibetan NGO Choice: 'Advance Training on Prevention of HIV/AIDS'

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Tibetan Envoy Calls for Common Ground on China-Tibet Talks ?

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

The week-long Advance Training on Prevention of HIV/AIDS organized by Dharamshala based NGO; CHOICE- HIV/AIDS Initiatives and funded by St Stephen’s AIDS Trust (SSAT), London concluded successfully in Delhi, 1-8 November 2010. Photo: TPI

By YC. DHardhowa, The Tibet Post

Dharamshala: The week-long Advance Training on Prevention of HIV/AIDS organized by Dharamshala based NGO; CHOICE- HIV/AIDS Initiatives and funded by St Stephen's AIDS Trust (SSAT), London concluded successfully in Delhi recently. The Training was supported and facilitated

by Dept of Health, CTA, Dharamshala and coordinated by SAHARA Center for Residential Care & Rehabilitation, Delhi. Over 12 trainees including doctors, nurses & HIV activists etc from 8 different regions took part in the training that commenced from 1st of November 2010 and concluded on 8th November 2010 in Delhi.

The Training was comprehensive in the sense that, besides presentations and talks by over 13 trainers including doctors, Psychologist, Counselors, Nutritionists/Dieticians, HIV patients and activists etc, the Training included Field Exposure Trips to Hospitals, ART Centres, SAHARA Michael's Care Home and Shalom Care Home based in Delhi, Role plays and Counseling Practice and Interactive sessions and group discussions etc.

"The aim of this Comprehensive Training was not just to upgrade the basic understanding of HIV/AIDS but also to acquaint them (trainees) more comprehensively about the overall issues related with the HIV/AIDS, threats of the impending epidemic, social stigma and discrimination associated with the disease, importance of preventive measures, basic associated medical problems, the opportunistic infections, voluntary counseling and Testing, window period, various HAART therapies including complementary and alternative therapies etc. The training also aimed at developing skills required to carry home based care and also ‘plan of action' for initiating or strengthening community care and support programmes and undertake appropriate Preventive Awareness/Education workshops for various groups of people (the stakeholders) in the community. I am really surprised by the knowledge and the experience of the participants in the field and was overwhelmed by their response and interest in the training. Their participation in the training is simply

amazing and inspiring. I am absolutely happy with the outcome and the results of this training and would love to conduct more such trainings in the near future" stated Dr. Nick Theobald, eminent Trainer and representative from the sponsoring Trust; St Stephen's AIDS Trust.

During the Training major stress were also laid on Prevention of HIV/AIDS, mode of transmission, need of testing and early diagnose, Anti-Retroviral Therapy & Management, Adherence by the HIV clients, Social Behavioral change & acceptance etc.

"Nursing & Home Care session with field-oriented information resources, need and management of Clinical service, Training, Counselling, Social Action programmes and live Testimony

by HIV client/ Transgender Mangala were some of the sessions I really enjoyed" said nurse Dondup Tsomo, a participant of the Training.

The Training saw all the trainers stressing on the importance of constant monitoring of client's CD4 count and viral load through test, countering Opportunistic infections, dealing with side effects, need of adherence & resistance, Nutrition & Hygience, Paedetric care etc.

Mr. Michael Marshall, who was the chief coordinator of the Training and also Chief Programme Coordinator of SAHARA: Centre for Residential Care and Rehabilitation while summing up his presentation stated, "Holistic approaches, importance of Positive Thinking & Living, caring for the carers, the role expectations and the burn-outs, organizational and group dynamics and building network of HIV/AIDS clients etc are some of defining factors in the mission to prevent HIV/AIDS and provide care and support to the HIV clients etc".

The trainers and coordinators of the Training include, Mr. Michael Marshall from SAHARA, Dr. Nick Theobald, trustee from St Stephen's AIDS Trust/ Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, Ms. Andrea Bennett, nurse from St Stephen's AIDS Trust, Mangala, TG/ HIV activist from SAHARA, Dr. Snehlata Ghosh from SAHARA, Ms. Shilpi Saraswat, Psychologist from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Dr. Ispa Mohapatra, Ms. Shakti Makkar, Ms.

Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama's special envoy, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyarion, has called for sincere talks with China.

Speaking on Wednesday (November 24) at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, Mr Lodi Gyaltsen remarked on the current status of ongoing dialogue between the two parties and said he does not see "any reason why we cannot find a common ground on the Tibetan issue if the Chinese leadership has the sincerity and the political will to move forward".

Below, we publish an edited transcript of Mr Lodi Gyaltsen's speech.

"Today, our talks with the Chinese leadership have reached a stage where, for the first time after decades of being in and out of contact, we have been able to convey to them in an unambiguous manner the position of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in seeking a solution within the framework of the People's Republic of China, and the steps that need to be taken to resolve the Tibetan problem.

"Although we are yet to see any concrete outcome leading to a solution, our talks have certainly enabled the two sides to have a better understanding of each other's position and concerns.

"In order to put our dialogue process with the Chinese leadership in context, I would like to explain its historical development. Broadly, we can categorize the dialogue process into three phases since the process began in 1979.

"We are convinced that this could be done without rewriting the history of Tibet. This is because, if we go on the path of rewriting the history of Tibet, it will then not only lead to complicating

Sarita Kaushik from Lok Nayak Hospital (LNJP), Dr. Sarvesh Kumar, Consultant at Tirath Ram Shah Charitable Hospital, Mr. Deepak Kanokzia from SAHARA Michael's Care Home, Ms. Chingngaihlain, nurse from Ambedkar Hospital, Dr. Saira Paulouse & Dr. Savita Saghi from Shalom.

Ms. Tsering Paldon, head of Delek Hospital's Public Health Section and Vice Chairperson of CHOICE, in her thank you speech during the final wrap up and farewell session stated, "I personally thank St Stephen's AIDS Trust, London for funding the Training, Dr. Nick and Ms. Andrea for the wonderful sessions and guidance, Mr. Mike from SAHARA and Phuntsok Chomphel from CHOICE: HIV/AIDS Initiatives for the wonderful coordination and successful organizing of the Training. And of course, Dept of Health, CTA for their constant support and encouragement in CHOICE's mission and campaigns. We have truly benefited so much from the Training and hope that all of us would go back to our respective areas with lots of knowledge, guidelines and confidence to carry forward our mission to prevent HIV/ AIDS in our community and manage successfully the care and support programmes through proper networks etc."

Tibetan Envoy, Lodi Gyari speaking to International media in Dharamshala, India.

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further some of the existing conflicts in China's relationship with others, but even give birth to new ones.

Furthermore, the Chinese leadership needs to ponder whether it should make claims on the basis of some past imperial actions and should understand the international ramifications and repercussions if it continues to do so.

"Today's Chinese leaders are also talking about establishing a harmonious society. We certainly support this endeavor as we believe it will directly impact China's policies on the Tibetan people. However, it is clear that there cannot be a harmonious society without equality among nationalities.

"Tibetans, especially those who are inside Tibet, continue to face the stark reality of the absence of equality at every level. Prominent Tibetan leaders, including the Late Panchen Lama, have repeatedly voiced their concerns in this regard by saying that any talks about unity should be preceded by the

presence of equality.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a forward-looking approach and has shown his willingness to take any initiative necessary that is in the interest of the Tibetan people, that will encourage harmony and stability in the People's Republic of China, and that will promote peace in the region. His Holiness is committed to work with the Chinese Government so that the Tibetan people can maintain their distinctive identity, regain their pride and dignity and the stability and unity of the People's Republic of China are ensured."

Mr Lodi Gyaltsen thanked the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) for providing this opportunity to share his thoughts on the status of discussions with the Chinese government in finding a political solution to the issue of Tibet and the possible way forward.

Click here for the full transcript of Mr Lodi Gyaltsen's speech.

Office of Tibet Launches Chinese Language Magazine in Taiwan

By YC. DHardhowa, The Tibet Post

Dalai Lama especially blessed and bestowed the name for the magazine.

A brief ceremony was held this morning at the foundation's prayer hall attended by all the students and staff of the foundation.

Mr Dawa Tsering, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama released the first issue of Kun-Sel-Woe-Nang and gave a brief introduction about magazine. He mentioned that the main objective to bring out this quarterly magazine is to provide the Chinese readers with wide range of information on religion, culture, history and other Tibet related information.

The representative also said that the launch of this magazine was an effort to guide and educate Taiwanese and Chinese Buddhist populace on certain aspects of misinterpretation and misunderstanding about the Tibetan Buddhism.

The magazine consists of 50 pages including the cover and each

quarterly issue is divided into 9 different topics.

The magazine contains information on Tibetan Buddhism, Tibet related news, Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan, introduction to great dharma teachers, political leaders, writers and other eminent figures of Tibet, introduction to all the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions, teaching schedules and other religious events of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and eminent masters of Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It will also include information about Tibetan Blue Book project, announcements and other important news reports.

The foundation has printed 7,000 copies of the first magazine and the copies will be send to the charity donors of the foundation, Tibetan Dharma centers, libraries, NGOs, and Tibet support groups in Taiwan.

[Report filed by Kalsang Lhundup, Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Taipei]

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Australian Parliament Convenes Hearing on China-Tibet Talks

File photo of Mr Michael Danby (standing back), who chaired an Australian parliamentary hearing on the issue of Tibet in the Australian Parliament on 24 November 2010. The file picture with His Holiness the Dalai Lama was taken during an Australian parliamentarian delegation's visit to Dharamsala in July 2009/Photo courtesy:Michael Danby

By Tibetan Official Media: Tibet Net

Dharamshala: Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights convened a hearing on Tibet, including "the status of dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership, and human rights situation inside Tibet".

At the invitation of the joint parliamentary committee, three senior officials of the Central Tibetan Administration, Mr Sonam Norbu Dagpo, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's representative to Australia, Mr Chhime Rigzin, Secretary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mr Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha, Secretary at the

Department of Information and International Relations in Dharamsala, attended the hearing on 24 November.

The hearing was held under the chairmanship of Mr Michael Danby, a member of the Australian House of Representatives. In July 2009, Mr Dandy led an Australian parliamentarian delegation to His Holiness the Dalai Lama during their visiting to the Tibetan community in Dharamshala.

Leading members of the Opposition Party's foreign affairs committee including 10 Members of Parliament attended the hearing.

During the course of the hearing, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Representative Sonam Dagpo gave a briefing about the Middle-Way policy proposed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to resolve the issue of Tibet and the dialogue process with the People's Republic of China leadership. International Secretary Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha briefed about the human rights situation inside Tibet.

The participating delegates put forward a wide range of questions concerning Tibet's environment and water, causes leading to the mudslide tragedy in Tibet's Drugchu region, Chinese population transfer to Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's congratulatory message to Liu Xiaobo on winning Nobel Peace Prize and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's retirement plan made during a recent TV interview in India. The delegates also replied to the questions and issues raised during the hearing.

Problems of Today's World are Our Own Creation: Tibet's Leader

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Vice-Chancellor Najeeb Jung (L) and Indian Human Resource Development Minister Kabil Sibal at the annual convocation of Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi on 23 November 2010/Photo: Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by Jamia Millia Islamia University. The honorary doctorate degree "a university with a Muslim flavour", was special for Tibet's leader.

"This degree from a university with Muslim flavour is special as I am committed to religious harmony. Since September 11, I have been defending Islam. For a few misguided people we should not blame a religion. Islam is one of the important religions in the planet, and hope for millions of people, Islam has been misunderstood due to some mischievous people who happened to have an Islamic background," said His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Tuesday.

The Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) was conferred on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, leader of Tibet by vice-chancellor Najeeb Jung at Jamia`s annual convocation.

Union HRD, science and technology and communication and IT minister Kapil Sibal was present.

"Jamia Millia Islamia honors His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, one of the most respected figures and teachers of our times, who stands for rationality, humanism, non-violence, peace and universal benevolence, with the degree of Doctor of Letters," states the degree citation.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's "message of compassion, altruism and peace has made him a statesman of our troubled

times," and adds that His Holiness "has led the Tibetan refugees in a remarkable success story where even after more than 50 years in exile, the [Tibetan] community has been able to retain its unique identity and remain welcome by their hosts,' further notes the degree citation.

Addressing the younger members of the crowd, His Holiness said I felt extremely honored to receive a Doctorate degree from a well-known Muslim university in India adding one of his two commitments is to promote religious harmony among different religious traditions. His Holiness said Islam is one the most important world religious traditions that provides hope and inspiration to millions of its followers.

In Lhasa, a small Muslim community who first came to Tibet as traders coexisted peacefully with the dominant Tibetan Buddhist community for centuries, His Holiness said. "There is no record of Muslims fighting with Tibetans in Lhasa."

In a special message for the students, the Tibetan leader urged the students to strive towards a peaceful world. He started his speech by requesting those present not to misunderstand him for use of wrong words because "my English is not so good". "We should not generalize Muslims for a few mischievous followers of Islam. There are mischievous elements in all religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. Problems we are facing in the world today are our own creation.

To create a harmonious society, we need young people with vision and for that education and moral ethics should go hand in hand," said His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Tibetan Spirit Is Very Strong: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

By Tibetan Official Media: Tibet Net

Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has said the spirit of Tibetans living inside Tibet and the Diaspora is very strong to face challenges in the struggle for Tibet's right.

"The spirit of Tibetans living inside Tibet is very strong, and the Tibetans in exile have put in place a healthy democratic institution in both temporal and spiritual fields. So we are very much prepared," His Holiness told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme on Sunday.

On being asked if he is serious about his retirement plans, His Holiness said: "Oh yes, of course. Since 2001 we have put in place a political leadership in exile. So theoretically the more than 400-year-old tradition of the Dalai Lama institution as head of both the temporal and spirituality has ended. Since then my position is something like a semi-retired position.

The major decisions are taken by the elected political leadership. So in order to utilise fully democracy, I felt better not to involve myself in any sort of these works. Of course, I can devote my efforts in other fields like in the promotion of human values and religious harmony. So I am thinking about retirement."

When asked if he has set any date of retirement, His Holiness said: "No. Firstly, I have to discuss with the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. I want to inform them about my intention (retirement), although I had already briefly mentioned to them about this."

On the question of the continuation of the Dalai Lama institution, His Holiness said: "If my death comes in the next few years, then I think most probably the concerned people, including the Mongolian people and the Buddhists living in the Himalayan range, will keep this institution. Then the 15th Dalai Lama will come."

The key question is how your successor will be chosen. At the moment Tibet is Chinese control and the Chinese (government) are not sympathetic to the institution of the Dalai Lama, said Karan Thapar. In his reply, His Holiness said: "I think Chinese are very much concerned about the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.

They are more concerned about the next Dalai Lama than me."

Do you think the next Dalai Lama should be chosen in the traditional way or do you need to make changes in the process or the rules? His Holiness said: "I have made it clear many years before that if the majority of Tibetan people want to keep this institution then the next question would be how to choose the successor whether through the traditional or a modern way. I have expressed this openly more than 20 or 30 years ago."

Given the present critical circumstances are you to prepare to nominate the next Dalai Lama in your life time? His Holiness said: "I think for the moment the issue of Dalai Lama is in no hurry. I am quite healthy, so we can wait for another 15 to 20 years. As far as leadership in temporal field is concerned, we have elected leadership through elections after every five years as long as we remain in exile. In the

His Holiness the Dalai Lama during an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN in New Delhi photo: Tibet Net

spiritual field, all the different Tibetan spiritual traditions are being carried by a very healthy younger generation.

So I have no worry."

"If the Tibetan people really want to keep the Dalai Lama institution, when the time of my old age there is possibility to have a deputy Dalai Lama to carry forward my work of promotion of religious harmony and human values," His Holiness said.

If the next Dalai Lama is to be chosen in the traditional way, should he be discovered only from within the territory of Tibet or can you also permit Tibetans in the Diaspora living outside Tibet to be considered? His Holiness replied: "Since many years ago I have it made very clear that if my death occurred while we remain outside Tibet then logically the new reincarnation's purpose to succeed the works started in the previous life.

My reincarnation should be someone to carry continuously my struggle.

Therefore, logically the reincarnation will appear outside Tibet. Of course the Chinese (government) may choose a Dalai Lama like the present two Panchen Lamas. One official Panchen Lama and another Panchen Lama. But I think over 80 - 90 percent of Tibetans don't believe the official Panchen Lama and many Chinese also usually call him as false Panchen Lama."

On being asked if he hopes to see again in his lifetime, His Holiness said: "Yes. It would be difficult if the Tibetan problem was a result of civil war which is the not the case. The actual problem came from the Chinese government and not its people. Within the Chinese government there are different sorts of opinions. The hardliners' way of thinking changes and the Tibet's problem will find a solution within a few days." On being further asked if he is confident to see Tibet, His Holiness said: Yes. His Holiness was asked how can he fight to stop the Chinese government's policies to wipe out Tibetan language and culture. His Holiness said: "We are trying to achieve a meaningful autonomy within the People's Republic of China."

But the Chinese are sitting in Tibet wiping your language, culture and religion, and trying to break the link between the Dalai Lama and monasteries, Karan Thapar said.

To this His Holiness replied: "These policies are unrealistic and will not succeed."

Are you confident it will not succeed?

No I don't think, His Holiness replied.

So China will fail and Tibet will survive culturally and in religious and linguistic terms?

Certainly, His Holiness said.

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and Human Rights

By Keary Huan, The Tibet Post

Taipei: A campaign for Tibet and Taiwan, walk "for World Peace and Human Rights, and Tibetan Independence" will be held in Taiwan to mark the International Human Rights Day. Each year hundreds of thousands of people across the world mark the Day on December 10 by taking part in the anniversary of the Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

A press statement issued by the Tibetan NGOs in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan on Thursday (25 Nov), stated that the event will start on December

10th to cover over 250 miles and 10 counties throughout the country and have many opportunities to share our message of world peace, human rights, and the Tibetan struggle for independence.

"I wants to personally request your support for the upcoming walk from the Taipei City Capitol of Taiwan to Kaohsiung City," said the press release issued by Jigme Norbu, Ambassadors For World Peace.

"I am asking for your support on spreading the news of this walk for our global cause. I would appreciate you linking to our website

(www.ambassadorsforworldpeace.org), connecting via Facebook, forwarding our email, and sharing the word with your friends. We will post updates of our progress daily on our website, so please share so others can view the walk on a day to day basis," Norbu further expressed.

Jigme Norbu-la and Tenzin Jamyang-la, former President of the Chicago Tibetan Alliance, they will walk together in Taiwan. Tenzin-la is a 1995 hunger strike participator in front of the United Nations and has walked with Jigme-la in Nov 2004 from Indianapolis to Chicago and most recently May 2010 from Indianapolis to Minneapolis which was over 600 miles for Tibet.

We are wanting volunteers to help and even join on the walk. If you are interested in more information please contact us via email at walkfortibet@ambassadorsforworldpeace.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you are unable to volunteer but would like to make a donation to support the walk, please visit our website.

The Tibetan NGOs who is organizing the event are Students For A Free Tibet Taiwan, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress Taiwan, Taiwan Friends Of Tibet, Tibetan Womens Association In Taiwan, and Tawian Tibetan Welfare Association.

MEPs voting in Strasbourg,plenary session 22-25 November 2010 Photo: www.europarl.europa.eu

By James Dunn, The Tibet Post-Europe

London: Today (25th November) the European Parliament adopted a resolution concerning their stance on Chinese language reforms in the Tibetan educational system.

The ballot was organised by European Parliament member, Marietje Schaake, who sits on the committee for Foreign Affairs, hopes that the resolution will raise awareness in Europe of the ongoing issue in Tibet.

The recent protests in Tibet were sparked by the educational reform proposed by the Chinese government to make Mandarin the only language taught in school in the Amdho region. Today's vote is seen as critical by Tibetan campaigners, who have called the reforms "cultural genocide," Amisha Zuber, a Tibet campaigner from America

said, "today's vote is crucial, as the issue has not been given political attention until now."

The resolution was successfully adopted by the European Parliament, which urges the Chinese authorities to support a genuine bilingual language policy, in which all subjects, including math and science, can be taught in Tibetan language. They condemned the "increased crackdown on the exercise of cultural, linguistic, religious and other fundamental freedoms" of the six million Tibetan people as well as the Chinese authorities' plan to make Chinese the main language of instruction in Tibet.

Furthermore, the Parliament requested that the European Commission report on the use made by China of the •1 million fund requested in 2009 to support Tibetan civil society.

China's Innermost Secret Fears: My Husband Is Innocent Talks on Oppression in Tibet Not A Criminal: Tibetan

Dharamshala: A presentation of Mr Gabriel Lafitte Monday (22 November) was organised

by Tibetan Women's Association in Dharamshala on the topic of China’s innermost secret fears. Over 30 Tibetans and foreign tourists attended first day discussion followed by a Question and Answer session. Photo: TPI/Sangay Dorjee

By James Dunn, The Tibet Post-Europe

Dharamshala: A presentation by Mr Gabriel Lafitte, an Australian academic and development policy consultant to the Environment and Development Desk of the Tibetan Government-inExile was held in Dharamsala, northern India, on Monday (Nov 22). Entitled China's Innermost Secret Fears, the talk was organised by the Tibetan Women's Association and attended by 30 Tibetans and foreign tourists,

who also took part in a question-andanswer session.

Mr Lafitte's talk was held in the Tibetan Welfare Office Hall, and covered a range of aspects of China's occupation of Tibet and what the current political regulations really say about China's view on Tibet.

During the presentation Gabriel discussed the recent religious reforms brought in by Chinese officals saying,

"Why do China's leaders insist they must oppress Tibet? There are many obvious answers to this most basic of questions, yet none of the usual answers get to the heart of China's fear and loathing of Tibetan culture, especially its leaders hatred of Tibetan religion. People say it is because the Chinese are communists and communists hate religion, as if nothing in China has changed since Mao told Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1954 that religion is poison.

"China's greatest fear is that modernity is skin deep, and is easily lost. The gleaming modernity of the glass towers is just a skin, covering what lies behind: a vast sea of seething irrationality, superstition, ignorance and mutual obligation, which modern China left behind only yesterday, which could reassert itself at any time.

Modern China fears that its grip on modernity, and on the hearts of the masses who are yet to benefit much from modernity, is fragile, and could easily be shaken."

Mr Lafitte's talk went into great detail, covering historical, political, religious, environmental and technological reasons for China's continued oppression of Tibetan people inside Tibet. His talks will continue on Friday (November 26).

Click here for Amy Elmgren's opinion essay on China's 'religious reforms'.

Filmmaker's Wife

By James Dunn, The Tibet Post

Recently, while in Paris, she spoke to Reporters Without Borders stating her reasons for coming to Europe, "I mainly came to Europe for my husband's release but not only for my husband, because in Tibet there are countless Tibetan prisoners so it is also for their release.

Since 2008, Tibetan political prisoners and everyone else have experienced increased torture. Including my husband over 1,000 of Tibetan people have been arrested."

"These days we don't know the whereabouts of the prisoners, whether they are alive or dead, we simply just don't know. They all did what they did for the Tibetan people without care for their own lives, just for the good of society but their families now suffer horribly through worrying about what has become of their love ones and that why I came."

"I came to Europe with the help of other people and now I am explaining to Europe that my husband is not a criminal, but a political prisoner of Tibet and innocence.

For example a wife living in Tibet, whose husband is killed by the Chinese government, has to live with her suffering because she cannot talk about it to other people even though they are not criminals."

"Like a father whose son has been killed

by the Chinese government, he can also not explain about his son's innocence.

They have to keep their suffering with them for their whole lives. This is why I came to a free country to explain to the rest of the world the suffering people have inside Tibet," she told the international press freedom group.

"What I have learnt is that the Tibetan support groups and the world press support my husband's cause and I hope this will continue. Nowadays my husband is suffering from Hepatitis B but he has not got any treatment, so our family is very concerned about what will happen to his health in the six years he must spend in prison. He also has to work up to 17 or 18 hours a day, even a man of good health couldn't work that long," She added.

"I request that the press continue their support for my husband's quick release and also that a doctor be sent to my husband so he can receive treatment and reduce his work load."

She concluded by saying "Before I left my children they said that they believed that if Europe supports my husband's cause he may be released. Dhondup's parents, who are both over 70 years old also believe that Europe can help free my husband. So I came to Europe in the hope that Europe will support this campaign as much as I do, continuously"

China Sentences Two Tibetan Businessmen Upto 15 Years

Sonam Bagdro, Photo: TCHRD/File

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

Dharamsala: The Chinese Court of Appeals of the people of Lhoka sentenced two Tibetan businessmen, Sonam Bagdro and Tashi Topgyal to 15 years and five years respectively in prison. The so called office of Public Security Lhoka (PSB) had arrested the two businessmen in August 2009 on suspicion they were engaged in political activities. Since their arrest, and until they appeared in court, nothing was known of the whereabouts, nor there conditions of detention.

Sonam Bhagdro was born in 1965 in Jhorya Township, Tsona County.

After completing his Middle School, he joined the Communist Party of the County. Through his business

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ventures, he has been helping in the education of students, medical expenses and expenses of the county monastery, according to a report issued by the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, . He was an exemplary businessman in the county loved by the people. He was awarded the Exemplary Citizen of the County. 30-year-old Tashi Topgyal was also born in Jhorya Township, Tsona County. He lives with his wife and child doing business for livelihood In October, three Tibetan monks from a Monastery in Dhingri, south western Tibet have been sentenced by the Chinese authorities to severer time in prison, they were arrested on May 19th, 2008 during a forced patriotic re-education on the monks in Shelkar Choede Monastery by Chinese work team officials.

Since March 2008, over 224 Tibetans have been killed, 1,294 injured and 290 sentenced, more than 5,600 were arrested or detained and over 1,000 disappeared after the Chinese armed military deadly cracked down in all parts of Tibet. Moreover, many major Tibetan websites have been forced to close down and all of the web-blogs in Tibetan are censored and shutdown.

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By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

Dharamshala: A Tibetan nun is seriously ill after being released from Chinese prison on November 19 , The Tibet Post has learnt. Taga alias Tashi Yangtso was arrested on May 20, 2008, along with two other nuns, Achoe and Sochoe, after the three staged a protest against the Chinese rule over Tibet in their locality of Dhargye monastery in Karze county, eastern Tibet.

According to a source, the three Buddhist nuns were from Tehor Nyagye Nunnery, Karze county, eastern Tibet. Achoe hails from Ridha Village, So Choekyi from Lamna Village and Taga a.k.a Tashi Yangtso from Norkyab Village.The three were detained at a prison near Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu. Sochoe and Achoe were later released as their health deteriorated and the authorities feared the two might die in the prison.

Tashi Yangtso continued to be jailed at the prison until November 19 this year. Taga's right hand had 2 fractures and her right ear is hearing impaired due to beatings in prison. "Taga's condition is said to be very serious as she is suffering from Tuberculosis and respiratory complications which

Tashi Yangtso...Photo: TPI/File

she developed during her stay in the prison," the source said.

Yangtso is currently receiving treatment at a hospital in Chengdu, source said. The Chinese security forces had also arrested 12 nuns from Drakar Nunnery, 55 nuns from Pang-ri Nunnery and several other nuns from Ganden Choeling Nunnery under Kardze County around the same period in May 2008. Due to their severe beating and torture at the hand of the Chinese authorities, Many of

the nuns' health have deteriorated rapidly, both physically and mentally.

Before her prison sentence Taga was a very active and being like a outspoken member of the nunnery community, however, it is reported that since her release she avoids talking or meeting with anyone, source said.

The brutal crackdown Tibetans in all parts of Tibet by the Chinese government that ensued left an estimated 227 Tibetans dead, over 6810 arrested and 510 sentenced.

Tibetan Writer Woeser's Blog, Twitter and China Sentences 1 Tibetan Facebook Under Attack to Death, 7 to Lengthy Jail Terms

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

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sentence from the so called Lhasa Intermediate People's Court around May this year, according to the report received by the Tibetan government inexile.

The court sentenced him for his alleged role in leading a protest in Lhasa on 14 March 2008. Following the protest in March 2008, the Public Security Bureau announced cash prize for those who would tell the whereabouts of Sonam Tsering to the police.

But Sonam evaded arrest by hiding around Lhasa with the help of some patriotic fellow Tibetans. He was eventually arrested in October 2009, the report said. Presently, his whereabouts, whether he is alive or dead remains unknown. The court had also sentenced seven Tibetans to varying prison terms for allegedly hiding Sonam Tsering following the protest in 2008.

The names of those 7 Tibetans are: Tsewang Gyurmey sentenced to 5 years, Tashi Choedon of Palyul to 7 years; Dolyang of Markham to 4 years; Yang alias Kelyang of Kongpo to 7 years; Yeshi Tsomo a nun of Lhasa to 5 years; Tayang of Lhasa to 5 years and Pasang Tsering of Lhasa to 1 year.

Since 10 March 2008, Tibetans living across Tibet rose up to show their opposition to the the People's Republic of China's misrule in Tibet. The peaceful protesters made unprecedented calls for

the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and fundamental human rights for Tibetans living inside Tibet.

The brutal crackdown by the Chinese government that ensued left an estimated 227 Tibetans dead, over 6810 arrested and 510 sentenced.

"The deaths were caused due to indiscriminate firing by the PRC forces during the demonstrations; severe beatings and torture of detainees during arrest, interrogation and detention; and a built-up of insurmountable repression and suppression that drove some Tibetans to commit suicide," noted a comprehensive report on the 2008 uprising in Tibet recently published by the UN, EU and Human Rights Desk of the CTA's Department of Information & International Relations.

"A total of seven Tibetans have been sentenced to death, out of which two with immediate death sentence were subsequently executed and five are currently facing suspended death sentence or death sentence with a twoyear reprieve. Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, both 25-year-old, were executed on 20 October 2009. The other five facing suspended death sentences are Tenzin Phuntsok, 27; Kangtsuk, 22; Penkyi, 21; Pema Yeshi, 28; and 23-yearold Sonam Tsering. The judicial process was devoid of fair trial and independent legal representation," the report said.

Dharamshala: Famous Tibetan female writer, Tsering Woeser Tuesday (23 Nov) said that her blog; www.woeser.middle-way.net, Twitter, Gmail account, and facebook were attacked by unknown hackers."On my online network events are not accessible from this morning: passwords for my blog, Twitter, Gmail account, Facebook have been hacked," she said.

"A friend called me at about 9:00 a.m. and told me that they couldn't get onto my blog, "We couldn't find it ... I am pretty sure it's certain Chinese [government] people who did this."

Woeser said.

She further said that "my Blog contents are suspected to be deleted, so far (20:30), Twitter and Facebook has been restored, but my blog and the Gmail has not been restored. she left a notice on her facebook after managed to restore.

"All password been hijacked, and I can not go up my blog, Twitter, and Gmail. Twitter has been changed my personal image and homepage. I am now worried that my blog had been removed today and had become clean.

They did! the Chinese Communists!

Fortunately my Facebook finally fixed, this can leave at-least this message," she said.

She said her access to Twitter, where she is known by the username@Degewa, and Facebook was also temporarily hijacked, but later regained with the help of online friends and supporters.

Tibetan writer, Tsering Woeser. Photo: Woeser's Facebook

"Now I am back into Twitter and Facebook, but they are still working on my e-mail account and my blog," wrote Woeser, who is currently visiting relatives in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

Earlier this month Woeser received a highly threatening phone call from the Lhasa City Public Security Bureau according to a message posted on her blog; woeser.middle-way.net. She was told by the caller who claimed to be from the Lhasa City Public Security Bureau to immediately go to the Public Security Bureau. When she questioned the reasons why she was being summoned they simply replied "of course there is a reason, you know what you have done."

Following the threat she has replied, "I had not done anything illegal. I said that if they wanted to come to see me

that was fine but they had to follow the correct procedures," to which the caller replied that he would come for her soon.

Tsering Woeser is a Beijing-based Tibetan freelance writer and blogger for the site Invisible Tibet, where she posts reports of Chinese crackdowns in Tibet and Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule. She has experienced a multitude of threats and arrests because of her outspoken work on the Tibetan cause, through her blog and books. During the 2008 unrest in Tibet, Woeser and her husband were put under house arrest after speaking to foreign reporters. In 2010, International Women's Media Foundation awared to the Tibetan female writer with the Courage in Journalism Awards.

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Hiroshima: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama met a delegation of media from major televisions, news papers and magazines on Monday (15th November) at Hiroshima Grand Prince Hotel. His Holiness greeted the media and expressed his happiness over the warm welcome he received throughout his visit in Japan and the successful completion of the three-days World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

Photo: TPI

By YC. DHardhowa, The Tibet Post

Hiroshima: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Monday (15th November) met a delegation of media from major televisions, news papers and magazines today at Hiroshima Grand Prince Hotel. His Holiness greeted the media and expressed his happiness over the warm welcome he received throughout his visit in Japan and the successful completion of the three-days World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

His Holiness explained about the three important ideals that he cherish as his mission. Firstly on human level, "I am one of the nearly seven billion people living in this world, we are all same and heavily dependent upon each other and interrelated. So our problems are global problem. We need to have a big concept of 'we' and genuine sense of concern for other irrespective of his or hers race and nationality. Promotion these inner

value is very important.

"Secondly, I am a Buddhist monks, I think all great religions in this world despite some differences in philosophy preaches the concept of love, compassion and tolerance. So there should be no conflict among the religions, all religions must coexist to satisfy the diverse spiritual needs of the people. This is important.

"Lastly, I am a Tibetan, and moreover being a Dalai Lama, I have certain responsibility. Politically, since 2001, we have a democratically elected political leadership and my position has been in somewhat semi-retired state. These are the three missions that I cherish, and I think media people also has great responsibility in promoting inner values, religious harmony and oneness of all human beings. Media people should have a long nose as long as an elephant's nose to smell all the corners of the society and bring the truth and justice to the public." Said His Holiness.

His Holiness answered questions from the press. On being asked about the Tibetan children demonstrating in Tibet against Chinese language imposition, His Holiness said, "Since some time back, I said intentionally or unintentionally some sort of cultural genocide is going on in Tibet. Unintentionally means, two third of Lhasa's three hundred thousand population is Han Chinese. Offices, restaurants, shops etc. uses Chinese language because all these utilities belongs to Chinese. If you don't speak Chinese, you don't get job. These are unintentional forces annihilating Tibetan ways of life.

"Now, intentionally, since the arrival of Chen Kuiyan as the Party Secretary in Tibet, I was informed that the classical Tibetan texts in Universities have been

replaced by Chinese texts. In one of the Party meetings, the Communist Secretary has openly said that to clear the main obstruction to the unity of the motherland is eradication of Tibetan language. It was said that semi-cultural revolution came in Tibet around that time.

Now, China wants to replace Chinese language as a medium of education in Tibet. These are intentional destruction of a living culture and the public and students are demonstrating against this is ruthless policy of Chinese government. Mao Tsetung spoke against Chinese chauvinism and narrow nationalism, but these have come back to destroy the culture and languages of the minorities." Said His Holiness.

When asked about Liu Xiaobo winning Nobel Peace Prize, His Holiness said, "unfortunate thing is hardliners in China never listen to the public and they feel it right to crush any dissents. This is gross human right violation. But the Chinese leadership should know that 1.3 billion Chinese has the right to know the reality and to judge what is right and what is wrong. Censorship is immoral, and harmful in the long run." Explained His Holiness.

On Hiroshima tragedy, His Holiness said that for three days the Nobel Peace Laureates and the delegates have been discussing about a world without nuclear weapon. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two cities to remind the world about the destructive nature of nuclear weapons and wars. I hope these two cities be the first and the last to experience nuclear weapon. Establishment of something like 'Hiroshima day' and including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki tragedy in school curriculum may help educate the people." Said His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi on Friday, 19 November 2010.

Photo: Hindustan Times

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

New Delhi: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader who was addressing the 2010 Leadership Summit of the Hindustan Times, one of the India's leading newspapers, in New Delhi on Friday, called for making this the century of dialogue, unlike the previous 100 years which was marked by violence. "Any conflict cannot be solved by violence. The 21st century should be the century of dialogue," he added.

The Tibetan Spiritual leader said that the 20th century was the century of violence. “According to some historians, over 200 million people were killed. This immense violence including nuclear weapons failed to bring any permanent peace to the world, so it was a waste. Our generation created that century of bloodshed, so it is now our

speaking on the art of happiness in troubled times explained there are two kinds of suffering in this world-the physical pain and the mental pain. His Holiness elaborated that the physical pain had subsided in the modern times due to economic progress and development of science and technology. However, the same could not be said about the mental pain which leads to unhappiness.

These days mental pain or stress is more due to competition and is more intense in cities like in Kolkata and Delhi whereas in rural areas physical difficulty is more while mental stress is less, therefore, the mental peace is the key to happiness, His Holiness said.

At the 2010 Leadership Summit, the Tibetan leader pointed out the importance of a peaceful mind. His Holiness said that if the mind is not at

Beside the Harmony Mask, China Held Symposium on Minorities

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Pos

Dharamshala: Despite wide-spread world media coverage of China's arrests and sentences over writing the reality of Tibet by many Tibetan writers and intellectuals, China claimed that it has held the first symposium on minority ethnic literature on Nov 20. "Tibetan youth writers were widely praised and well recognized by the attending scholars and minority literature critics," reported the so called 'China Tibet Online' November 21.

"The symposium was hosted at the Central University of Nationalities, with invited scholars and minority literature critics speaking on the new ethnic literary developments in China, the report continued.

During the meeting, young writers from Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur ethnic groups gathered together to exchange opinions on literary writing and discuss over some of the recent representative works. "The discussion was highlighted by the well-known writers and critics' recognition of the novels written by Tibetan young writers," report further claimed.

But with a very limited freedom of

writing and speaking in Tibet and across China, authorizes have detained three Tibetan writers including Tashi Rabten earlier this year, have been tried on charges of 'inciting activities to split the nation,' atleast 50 intellectuals were arrested since 2008 the Tibet Post International has learnt.

Tashi Rabten arrest was carried out by a group of 16 police officials who ransacked student rooms as well as confiscated cellular phones, laptop computers and books from students. He had edited the banned literary magazine Shar Dungri (Eastern Conch-Hill) covering the 2008 protests in Tibet and had co-authored a collection called "Written in Blood".

The lack of independent observers in Tibet allows the Chinese authorities to arrest and convict Tibetan journalists, writers, bloggers and environmentalists without any form of due process. The government prevents the foreign media from working in Tibet so that there are no witnesses.

Since 2008, over 50 Tibetan writers, poets, journalists and bloggers were arrested who expressing by their several

articles, poems and essays for their solidarity with the jailed Tibetan protesters and paying tribute to those killed by Chinese security forces and criticizing the Chinese government.

Since March 2008, over 224 Tibetans have been killed, 1,294 injured and 290 sentenced, more than 5,600 were arrested or detained and over 1,000 disappeared after the Chinese armed military deadly cracked down in all parts of Tibet. Moreover, many major Tibetan websites have been forced to close down and all of the web-blogs in Tibetan language are censored and shut-down.

The so called China's new role models which believing Hu had made major contributions to ethnic harmony at a ceremony in 2009, at which communist head Hu Jintao claimed "the promotion of harmony and prosperity among all ethnic groups." What kind of harmony and prosperity he brought into Tibet?

But this pointless making him the one of the dictorships. Hu's harmony role model can only means genocide and torture in the human history. Because the whole world knows that using of military and gun cannot bring harmony

US Ambassador Timolhy J. Remer, Sohail Seth and others listen to the speech of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi on Friday, 19 November 2010. Photo: Hindustan Times

responsibility to tell our children that violence cannot solve the problems,�

His Holiness said.

His Holiness said that people run the world not governments and people can make the real change, "Whether this century should be peaceful or filled with bloodshed will ultimately depend on the people,� said His Holiness.

His Holiness said that real change starts from an individual then in the family and then the community and only then is there a possibility of a more compassionate world. His Holiness said that if we and the nations try to solve the problems through dialogue and not force there can be peace and thus happiness.

The Tibetan spiritual leader who was

peace then one cannot see the reality and with unrealistic approach no problem can be solved. By using common sense, experience and through awareness one can train the mind and can keep it calm. While facing a problem, fear, anger, jealousy also comes in the way of seeing reality, he told the audience.

His Holiness said that man is social animal but cannot always live together due to short term intelligence and self interest. "Any social animal, like bees or ants, have no religion, constitution but they are together because nature created it that way. We too are social animals but because of our short term intelligence and self interest we are forgetting out basic nature."

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Buddhist Monk Saves Animals from Slaughterhouse

Geshe Thupten Phelgye, camgner for animals based in Dharamshala, India.

Photo: TPI/Thupten Phelgye

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

Dharamshala: True to his practice of Buddhist faith, Ven. Thupten Phelgye, a MP of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile bought over 100 of goats and sheep from going to slaughterhouses in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, J&K. Later, he donated the animals to poor families in remote areas of Nubra Valley, 150 Kms from Ladakh.

The campaign happened after Ven Phelgye, who recently went to the Himalayan Region of India. According to recently issued statement said the animals were rescued on November 17 to coincide with the day of Wednesday which is considered to be an auspicious day for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader and to contribute in part to his call for global responsibility of compassionate attitude to all beings.

"Through this, I hope and pray for the long and healthy life of the His Holiness Dalai Lama and all the peace making leaders of the world and for the spread of Buddha's message of universal compassion to all corners of the world," said Geshe Phelgye who became a strict vegetarian after coming across animals being killed at a slaughterhouse in 1984.

Inspired by Geshe Phelgye's appeal, then abbot Geshe Lobsang Tsering of Sera-Jey Monastery banned nonevegetarian (meat food) within its premises in 1989, which was his first success in his campaign for universal compassion and vegetarianism.

Phelgye went on to further the mission when he was elected the first President of the International Gelug Society Congregation 1999. He brought up a resolution on vegetarianism for all Gelug monasteries and nunneries, which was

successfully passed and declared implementation of the conduct around its sect.

In the year 2000 at the annual national Religious conference in Norbulingka, Dharamsala, Geshe La sponsored another resolution to encourage vegetarian diet in all the Tibetan monasteries and Nunneries, which was unanimously appreciated by representatives of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and appealed to stop the practice of non-vegetarian foods being served in the monasteries and nunneries of Tibetan Buddhism.

In 2003, Geshe Phelgye successfully tabled a motion in the parliament calling for observing the year for "vegetarianism-drive" for the long life of HH the Dalai Lama exclusion of meatrelated foods either permanently or in reduced amount in the Tibetan society.

While Asking him about the cost of the rescued animals, Geshe Phelgye said "I paid Rs. 1900 each for the animal while a few were bought for 1500 after the sellers voluntarily reduced their price, that includes a donation of $500 from my American student Debra and Rs 15000 from my colleague Mrs Ngawang Lhamo" Some nomads voluntarily joined the "animal life saving" and released 26 goats free of cost from slaughtering. The event saved the lives of a total of 101 animals from being slaughtered.

"I have distributed the animals among the Tibetan refugee nomads in Nubra Valley who lead an impoverished life," said Geshe Phelgye while expressing joy for being able to save so many lives and simultaneously help ‘breathe lives' into a needy community. \"I have sought their (the refugee nomads) commitment to look after welfare of the animals till their natural death," Geshe Phelgye added in good measure.

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Tibetan Parliament Welcomes Suu Kyi Release

Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in-Exile, Mr Penpa Tsering. Photo: TPI/File

By YC. Dhadhophonya, The Tibet Post

Dharamshala: The release of Suu Kyi, Burma's courageous pro-democracy leader has been welcomed around the world as many people hope this is just the first step towards greater political freedom in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Tibetan Parliament inExile described it as "Suu Kyi's indomitable spirit to push for democracy in Burma even during the 15 years of her detention is an inspiration for millions of others who aspire for freedom and democracy."

The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile today has issued an official statement said "the Tibetan Parliament in Exile

Washington on Wednesday.

"The United States continues to be concerned for the preservation and development of the Tibetan people's unique religious, cultural, and linguistic heritage and the protection of their fundamental human rights", said a latest report issued by the US on Religious Freedom.

"We received reports from China of government harassment of Tibetan Buddhists, house-church Christians and Uighur Muslims," Clinton said in her opening remarks during the release of the annual State Department Report on Religious Freedom.

"And several European countries have placed harsh restrictions on religious expression. These infringements on religious freedom strain the bonds that sustain democratic societies," she said.

In China one continues to see restrictions on the Uighur population in Shenzhen, on the Tibetan Buddhist community, and other restrictions on religious freedom, including on the unauthorised house churches, Christian churches, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Michael Posner, said.

Eight countries including China have been designated as countries of particular concern, Posner said. Those

eight countries are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan, he said.

According to the annual State Department report, in the last one year, the level of religious repression in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas remained high, especially around major religious holidays and sensitive anniversaries.

"The government remained wary of Tibetan Buddhism and the central role traditionally played by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other prominent Tibetan Buddhist leaders.

"The heads of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism--including the Karmapa, Sakya Trizin, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, and Gyalwa Menri Trizin--all reside in exile and maintain close ties with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Chinese authorities often associated Tibetan Buddhist monasteries with proindependence activism," the report said.

Government control over religious practice and the day-to-day management of monasteries and other religious institutions continued to be extraordinarily tight since the spring 2008 outbreak of widespread protests and unrest in Tibetan regions, it said.

Monks and nuns reported that government restrictions continued to interfere with their ability to carry out the teaching and practice of Tibetan

Buddhist religious traditions, the report said.

The Chinese government continued to blame the Dalai Lama publicly for instigating the March 2008 unrest and repeatedly stated that his successor would have to be approved by the government. The newly appointed TAR governor described the Dalai Lama as "the most important cause of instability in Tibet, it said.

Report said Monks and nuns, as well as lay Tibetans, continued to report difficulties obtaining passports from their local public security bureaus. According to reports, many of the monks and nuns that attempt to travel to Dharamshala, or the other Tibetan communities in India, did so to join religious communities and escape the increased controls over their religious practice at monasteries and nunneries in Tibetan areas.

On the Tibet-Nepal border, the government also increased its border forces to prevent Tibetans from crossing the frontier without permission and exerted pressure on the government of Nepal to forcibly return Tibetan refugees.

During the reporting period, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) documented the forcible return of three Tibetan asylum seekers, including one monk in June 2010, the report said.

More detail please see full report from US State Department.

welcomes the unconditional release of Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Suu Kyi's indomitable spirit to push for democracy in Burma even during the 15 years of her detention is an inspiration for millions of others who aspire for freedom and democracy," the Tibetan Parliament said in a press release issued Monday.

"We call on the Burmese Military Junta to also release all other political prisoners including Min Ko Naing, U Gambira and U Khun Htun Oo. "We believe Suu Kyi's call for national reconciliation will pave way for true democracy in name and in practice in Burma. Her thinking resonate the thought of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the 21st century is the century of dialogue. We sincerely hope the Military Junta will open its arms and seek a lasting non-violent solution to the issues in Burma that will be beneficial for not only the people of Burma but the whole region."

Tibetans in Belgium to Focus on Language Studies

Infringements on Religious freedom Continue in Tibet: Clinton

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By YC. Dhadhophonya, The Tibet Post

Brussels: A Tibetan Organization called Tibetan Cultural Center Belgium will be taking time to celebrate its 2nd founding anniversary, which actually falls in this month. And rightly so - it is a significant achievement for Tibetan culture and identity and many activities are planned. But the festivities apart, it will still be a case of ‘Tibetan language as the communist regime of China has recently been planned a new education policy dimension in Tibet that carefully aiming to destroy the Tibetan language and culture identity.

The Tibetan Culture Center Belgium (TCCB) was established on 23th November 2008. In the last 2 years the group have taught the Tibetan culture and history to the Tibetan children who are growing up in Belgium, but also the Tibetan language, singing and dancing, and compassion.

The organization told The Tibet Post

International that "TCCB will be registered as an official Belgian association and also are going to publish teacher's books, textbooks with lessons and homework books for the students for our classes in Brussels, Oostende and Antwerpen where Tibetans settled.

These classes are based on the lessons of Tibetan students in the United States of America. The idea is to give lessons to the students on their level and that all our local classes are equal. The lessons are special, the students can learn words using pictures, videos and audios."

The organization further said that each year the group will give two exams to the students and research their further studies. At the end of the year we celebrate our founding anniversary with a traditional Tibetan culture show and report about the year program.

"We would like to thank you for your support because this important program is meant to preserve our unique cultural heritage. This is not only the responsibility of the Tibetan Culture Center Belgium, but of every single Tibetan." said the released statement.

The celebration of the 2nd anniversary of the Tibetan Cultural Center Belgium will be taking place in Antwerpen, Belgium on Saturday 20th November 2010. At the moment the organization has more than 40 students and more than 12 staff members, including a President, a school director, a secretary, an accountant, a public relations manager and local teachers. Everyone works on voluntary basis.

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Visit Denmark Next Year

Copenhagen: His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived here Friday afternoon and straight away proceeded in a motorcade, escorted by five Danish police motorcyclists, to first meet Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and later Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller.

Photo: TPI

By James Dunn, The Tibet Post

Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has been invited to visit Denmark by humanitarian organisation Tibet Charity as well as seven other Danish companies and non-profit organisations with an interest in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.

Danish media The Copenhagen Post report said Monday Unlike His Holiness the Dalai Lama's last visit to Denmark, this will only be a one-day visit on April 18, during which he will be holding two lectures in the Tivoli Congress Centre in Copenhagen.

When he visited last year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gathered 8,000 listeners to Buddhist lectures in Bella Centre.

During his 2009 visit, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met for an "unofficial" meeting with Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, sparking temporary rage in China, which perceives the Dali Lama as a political troublemaker, the Danish

media further said.

"China punished Denmark by cancelling a number of official visits, and eventually succeeded in pressuring the Danish parliament to promise to actively oppose Tibetan independence," the news report continued.

The organisers of this visit have made it clear that there will not be any political meetings during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's stay in Denmark. The Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen also said that he does "not have any special need to meet the Dalai Lama again."

In May 2009, the prime minister said that he was pleased to meet with His Holiness and that although there are not many Buddhists in Denmark, many Danish people admire and have great respect for His Holiness. He said Denmark supports human rights for the Tibetan people. His Holiness also met the foreign minister of Denmark. The meeting focused mainly on the Tibet situation.

Jamia to Confer Honorary Doctorate to Tibet's Leader

By YC. Dhardhowa, The Tibet Post

New Delhi: Jamia Millia, the India's Islamia National Islamic University based in the Indian capital, New Delhi will confer an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree to Tibet's political and spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tuesday, 23rd November.

The University will confer the Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) on

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet,' a statement by the university said Monday.

According to a report on Monday by IANS, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will be the chief guest of the annual convocation. A total of 3,529 degrees and diplomas, apart from 147 gold medals, will be awarded.

In last month, Jamia officials were also

By YC. DHardhowa, The Tibet Post

Tokyo: The Tibetan Nobel Laureate, who has met with the Japanese and foreign medias at various levels in different places During his 11 day visit to Japan. His Holiness said that it is wrong if the communist leaders think that Tibet issue will die with him, "Tibet has a long political, cultural and religious history, whereas Dalai Lama institution is only about 400 years old." His Holiness said.

Response to the political issue of Tibet, Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been able to made it clear to press and general public that Tibetans are committed to resolving the Tibet issue through dialogue and nonviolence. His Holiness narrated the chronology of the events leading to the decision to adopt Middle-Way Approach in negotiating with the Chinese government, thus making Tibetans' demand for meaningful autonomy clear.

His Holiness welcomed the release of Burmese democratic leader, Ang San Suu Kyi and said that all the Noble Laureates are unanimous in supporting her quest for free and democratic Burma. His Holiness expressed word of support for Liu Xiaobo, and urged the Chinese government to pay heed to the public's voice and release Liu Xiaobo and his wife unconditionally. His Holiness praised the recent comments by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on freedom and democracy in China.

On Hu Jintao's concept of harmonious society, His Holiness said that it was very appreciable and very realistic approach, "but the method used to achieve this noble goal is totally wrong. Harmony should come from trust, and trust comes from mutual respect. Harmony cannot be imposed with force and guns." His Holiness said.

On world peace, His Holiness urged the people to work on internal disarmament first to make the external disarmament of nuclear weapon successful. His Holiness said that concept of "we and they" should be replaced to include all the 6 billion plus population of this world under one big family of "we". "Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will live long to educate the humanity on the destructive nature of nuclear weapon and wars." Said His Holiness.

To the monks and general public during the teachings, His Holiness said that whether one is believer or not, love and compassion is very important. "We all grew up from our childhood with love and compassion from our mother and the neighborhood. As far as Buddhist religion is concerned, faith and prayer is not the essence of Buddhist religion, proper understanding of the four Nobel Truth and Buddhist text is very important." His Holiness explained.

His Holiness appreciated the Japanese spirit of forgiveness after the Hiroshima tragedy, and their hard work in rebuilding their dilapidated

expressing surprise that the China factor should influence such decisions.

"Should we be so scared of China as to forget about our own country?" an official asked.

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Tibet is Committed to Dialogue with China: His Holiness

His Holiness the Dalai Lama along with the other Nobel Peace Laureates on 14th November visited the Hiroshima Memorial Park, where the Nobel Laureates and the delegation paid respect and prayer to those who lost their lives during that fateful day of August 1945.

Conclusion ceremony of the 11th World Summit of Nobel Laureates was also done before the large gathering of the delegates, medias, general public and the students. Photo: TPI

cities, where he conducted several teachings and talk to the monks and general public.

Considering the numbers of meaningful socio-religious events at various places, the visit can be said as very successful from the following point of view:-Talk with some 5000 people including participants from 29 countries, mainly youngsters at Osaka on "Peace initiatives by youth" -Meeting with some 300 Korean monks, nuns and general public -Meetings and public talk with Japanese monks at Todaiji, and public teaching to some 2000 gathering at Tadaiji Temple.

-Public discussion with a noted Japanese brain scientist Mogi Kenichiro on "Mind & Brain" -Public teaching at Niihama city of Shikoku on Heart Sutra and Emptiness -Public teaching to some 2000 gathering at Hiroshima on law of causality -Participation in 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates three-days program at Hiroshima Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the entourages left Tokyo Tuesday morning after the successful conclusion of eventful 11days visit to Japan this month.

nation to one of the most modern and developed countries. "Japanese people has great potential to contribute for peace and development, but in order to do it globally at wider scale, you need to learn English." He advised.

Japanese monks, general public and youngsters greatly appreciated the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Many said that it opened their eyes to look at the things from different perspective. Media coverage of His Holiness was conspicuous from the number of television programs and news paper coverage the visit received at various regions.

On several occasions, His Holiness expressed great satisfaction and thanked the hosts for their wholehearted effort in organizing those events.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama was invited by the Secretariat of World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates to attend the three-days World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Hiroshima city of Japan. Osaka Junior Chamber of Commerce also invited His Holiness the Dalai Lama to address one of its eight-days International Peace promotion workshop program. Apart from attending these two main events, His Holiness visited Nara and Niihama

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