Word: dharamsala
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...speaking in the grand, ornate temple overlooking his exile government's headquarters in Dharamsala, India, at the close of a weeklong summit of Tibetan exiles to discuss the future of their movement. He made a point of reaching out, as he often does, to the Chinese people and explicitly compared himself to the student protesters of Tiananmen Square: "We are all equal in working for democracy." He was plain about his disappointment with their leaders: "My trust in the Chinese officials is becoming thinner and thinner." (See pictures of the Dalai Lama at home in Dharamsala...
...free Tibet but also the day-to-day struggles of the 5.5 million Tibetans in Tibet. Human rights groups say that Chinese authorities have dramatically curtailed freedom of speech and movement within Tibet since the March anti-China protests there. Only 1,000 Tibetan refugees have arrived in Dharamsala so far this year, compared to about 2,500 last year, according to Mingyur Youdon, deputy director of the reception center for new arrivals; since March, only 150 have come. That's a clear sign, she says, that the Chinese have tightened security at the border. At talks held in July...
...People have made repeated requests that His Holiness should help us in finding an unmistaken successor," says Lhakdor (he uses only one name), a delegate to this week's summit in Dharamsala and director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Tibetans do not want a repeat of the calamitous succession of the Panchen Lama in 1995, when China chose its own candidate. Pictures of the little boy whom the Chinese rejected as the 11th Panchen Lama - he is believed to be imprisoned - are still displayed here and there around Dharamsala. Tibetans fear that China will make a similar...
...Middle Path," seeking autonomy within China, resulted in such overwhelming support that some Tibetans doubted that it was a true expression of democracy. "People were upset by that," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama at home in Dharamsala...
...process may sound as worthy and bureaucratic as a conclave of some obscure United Nations agency. But as with any gathering of this size, the real action is happening informally, in the courtyards and coffee houses around Dharamsala. Old friends and classmates are seeing each other after many years, comparing notes on their children and counting gray hairs. The radicals of the movement, who advocate a free Tibet, are buttonholing the centrists to shore up support in the mainstream. And everyone in Dharamsala is getting a chance to catch a glimpse of Tibet's aristocracy. (Was that the Dalai Lama...