Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaven-headed monks, all of them in claret robes and crested yellow hats, the newcomer clambers up to the temple roof. There, as the sun begins to rise, his clerics seated before him and the solemn, drawn-out summons of long horns echoing across the valley below, the Dalai Lama leads a private ceremony to welcome the Year of the Earth Dragon...
...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...
...exiled Dalai Lama calls for nonviolent rotest in Tibet after Peking blames him for pro- independence riots in his homeland...