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...more than a fortnight, his homeland had been torn by violent protest against its Chinese occupiers. Now, from his place of exile in Dharmsala, the Himalayan hill town in northern India where he has lived for most of the past 28 years, the Dalai Lama spoke. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism sought to explain the rioting that had rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on the other side of the Himalayas, and the harshness of the Chinese response. Inevitably, Peking blamed the Dalai Lama, 52, for instigating the demonstrations that inflamed his people both at home and in exile...
What sparked the flame in the so-called land of snows? It could have been the execution of two Tibetan nationalists by Chinese authorities in late September. Or perhaps it was the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the U.S., where he called for a withdrawal of Chinese forces from Tibet, as well as a greater degree of autonomy for his mountain realm. Late last month, in any case, 27 saffron-robed Tibetan monks were arrested for taking part in an anti-Chinese demonstration outside Lhasa's Jokhang Temple. Four days later a mob of 2,000 Tibetans gathered...
...Reagan Administration, determined to encourage China to continue on its path of liberalization, backed Peking. After all, the State Department noted, the U.S. has recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet since the 1940s and in recent years has held that the Dalai Lama is purely a religious leader and not the head of a government in exile. At the same time, however, the U.S. Senate voted 98 to 0 to condemn China for its actions in Tibet. Moreover, the Senate decided that future sales of defense materiel to China should be contingent on assurances by the President of progress on human...
...quiet life until 1959, when Rinpoche, like the Dalai Lama, fled the country in the face of Chinese takeover. Rinpoche spent two years in India, then four in England at Oxford University, then moved on to Scotland to found a meditation center. In 1969, he relinquished his monastic vows. The next year, he married a 16-year-old Englishwoman, Diana Judith Pybus. The nuptial move drew criticism from lama quarters...
...royals must be somewhat extraordinary to win our faith, they must also be rather ordinary to hold our sympathy. Humanity is the one thing they can never abdicate. So it is that every king proverbially longs to see how the other half lives: the tiny Dalai Lama, installed as God-King of Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads...