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...Collateral damage: Civilian casualties are unavoidable in war, even more so in an air war. The Air Force and Navy have taken great care to avoid such casualties - even the Dalai Lama has commended them for this - but a number of accidents have already been confirmed. And the fact that the Taliban has moved much of its weaponry and personnel into heavily populated neighborhoods raises the potential for more. While there are no signs yet of such incidents weakening allied resolve, they are reportedly generating considerable anger among the anti-Taliban elements the U.S. is wooing in the south...
China claims that Choephel's research was a pretext for collecting sensitive information. The official news report of his sentence concluded he had been sent "by the Dalai [Lama] clique with expenditures and equipment provided by a certain foreign country." But shortly before his disappearance, Choephel sent the first 16 hours of his videotapes out of the country with American tourists. The tapes show folk songs and dances that seem to pose little threat to any country's national security...
...found their way to the West from monasteries and homes of prosperous Tibetan families. The more than 700 items on display include religious sculptures, ritual objects, musical instruments and monastic utensils, as well as cloth scroll paintings, or thangkas, images of deities and saints. In the words of the Dalai Lama, who inaugurated the exhibition in May, to a Buddhist the sacred images are a "source of inspiration ... and enlightenment." Scroll paintings, for example, portray the Buddhist conception of the world and, to the initiated, reveal codified mysteries. Usually painted on cotton or silk brocade with colors made from mineral...
...Karmapa's escape?eight days by jeep, horse, helicopter, train and car?to Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile was initially viewed as proof that a united fight for Tibetan independence endures. But then came the crackdown. China closed Tsurphu to visitors and arrested the devout. This February, the U.S. State Department reported that since the Karmapa's departure, "a large number of monks and nuns remain detained or imprisoned." The monastery is now open again. (The official Chinese explanation for shutting it: the peeling frescoes needed repair.) But the thousands of visitors who made...
...window and unlock the door from the inside. Senior monks, too, have returned to their retreats, spending days, months and years in dark solitude, sustained only by food slipped into their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where you can visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists don't get to see the Karmapa's old bedroom. Tsurphu hasn't become a museum: it is still a working monastery. We have arrived during a brief break in afternoon prayers and are able to walk inside the dim, main meditation hall and, with...