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...what does it fear? The first item on the agenda is straightforward: it is to be left alone. China brooks no interference in its internal affairs, and its definition of what is internal is not in doubt. The status of Tibet, for example, is an internal matter; the Dalai Lama is not a spiritual leader but a "splittist" whose real aim is to break up China. As for Taiwan, China is prepared to tolerate all sorts of temporary uncertainties as to how its status might one day be resolved--but not the central point that there is only one China...
...Jews honor holy places, but have no tradition of actually following in their [prophets’] footsteps.”In keeping with its ecumenical aspirations, the Abraham Path Initiative has been endorsed by a wide range of public figures—religious and otherwise. The Dalai Lama has given his approval, as has former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.“It would indeed be a dramatic demonstration of brotherhood if religious leaders and lay persons could join in re-tracing the route of their common ancestor, Abraham,” Carter has said, according to the project?...
...Each year as many as 3,000 Tibetans attempt the Himalayan crossing, hoping to join their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India. China, which has systematically tried to erode the influence of Buddhism since invading Tibet in 1950, continually patrols the rugged region to prevent escapes. While there are occasional reports of border guards firing on refugees, this is the first time such an incident has been widely witnessed. Xinhua, China's state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania...
...think of the Lutheran student from the Midwest who found that the rationalism of the Dalai Lama opened to her a world of thought that was not only challenging, but compelling. I think of the student who wanted to write her term paper on women’s issues in Islam and discovered the breadth and power of Muslim feminist writers she didn’t know existed, the Muslim student who discovered the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the atheist who found that Buddhist philosophers didn’t “believe in God” either...
...Tsering Dorje grew up in a tiny Tibetan village not far from the Dalai Lama's birthplace. As a child making pilgrimages with his family to seek blessings from faraway monks, he discovered Tibet's forests, mountains, rivers and wetlands. "I fell in love with these natural beauties," he says. "I wanted to stay lost in the forests forever." But in Tibet, where activism is viewed with suspicion by the Chinese government, his dreams of becoming a conservationist would not easily be realized. His early work documenting the negative environmental impact of a World Bank-funded project to relocate farmers...