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...herdsman knows to be wary of video surveillance. In a sheltered corner of the monastery's walls, Dorje enumerated the wrongs visited on ordinary Tibetans by the Chinese authorities: beatings, arbitrary arrests and lengthy jail sentences, extortion, forced attendance at public vilifications of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The list went on, culminating in attempts to make Tibetans celebrate the Lunar New Year, something Dorje and others told me they had refused to do out of respect for Tibetans killed in Lhasa last March when anti-Chinese protests turned violent. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama...
...people. "I think violence is inevitable," says Lobsang Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law's East Asian Legal Studies program who focuses on human rights in Tibet. So it's imperative for both sides to do their utmost to clear the logjam that has blocked progress since the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Lhasa nearly 50 years ago. On the Chinese side, there's little doubt that some officials realize their strategy of oppression at home and stonewalling overseas will one day backfire. But as Tibet scholar Robert Barnett of Columbia University says, their chance of influencing Beijing...
...studio I said no, let's make it a health and wellness place. I was constantly going away to find the calm in the chaos and I thought, Let's create it right here. Then two years ago we hosted this amazing event here for his Holiness the Dalai Lama and at that moment I knew that this was going to happen. It wasn't a desire anymore; it was a reality. I had to do this. I wanted to create a new model of philanthropy here. I wanted to create a place that would bring like-minded people together...
...boycott of the celebrations in interviews with the media) but is a spontaneous reflection of Tibetans' anger over the deaths last March. "Everyone is still very sad and also very angry at the Chinese authorities for what happened. No one felt like celebrating." (Read "A Conversation with the Dalai Lama...
...Even if this period passes quietly, the year ahead contains many more potentially explosive anniversaries for Tibetans. April will mark the 20th anniversary of the bloody 1989 suppression of anti-Chinese protests in Lhasa. Even more sensitive will be the 50th anniversary, in mid-March, of the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in India after the so-called Lhasa uprising was suppressed by the People's Liberation Army...