Word: dharamsala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...India After the Dalai Lama Tibetan leaders assembled in Dharamsala to recalibrate their strategy for gaining autonomy from China after the Dalai Lama recently vented his frustration with Beijing and suggested he had "given up" the fight for independence. The spiritual leader has been absent from the discussions, which experts took as a sign that he did not want to influence the movement's direction...
...historic summit of Tibetan exiles in the north Indian hill-station town of Dharamsala ended its third full day on a note of optimism that their experiment in democracy might actually succeed...
...this begs the question, then, of what the Dalai Lama hopes to achieve with this week's congress in Dharamsala, which continues until Saturday and which he won't attend until its close. Tibetologists and other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier...
...minority among the exile community and they are a tiny majority among ordinary Tibetans living in China, the vast majority of whom will support whatever the Dalai Lama decides." In fact, reports indicate that the process of smoothing over divisions is already beginning to happen. "The exiles at the Dharamsala meeting already received messages from inside Tibet urging them not to fight among themselves and think about the future," he says...
Hundreds of Tibetan political leaders, activists and individuals from all over the world have begun a meeting in Dharamsala, India, that is unprecedented in its ambition: to bring all Tibetans together to decide their own future, without the direct guidance of the Dalai Lama...