Word: lamas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long life of the Dalai Lama is, for Tibetans, a profound blessing. But while they might pray to postpone the moment of his passing, the leaders of the Tibetan community are no longer shy about preparing...
...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 disruptive move after the Dalai Lama...
...Tibetans in exile, or the 5.5 million in Tibet, to suddenly shift course away from the official position: the so-called Middle Path of negotiating for genuine autonomy while remaining part of China. Talking about independence can be taken as an implicit criticism of the Dalai Lama and thus considered taboo among many Tibetans, but this week's talks have brought those views into the mainstream. Leaders of the main pro-independence activist groups were invited to be among the 550 delegates, and their opinions will be incorporated into its final report. "Overall it was a very frank discussion," says...
...Dalai Lama's nephew, the eldest son of the Tibetan spiritual leader's eldest brother, Thondop, now 56, has already led an extraordinary life. He was born in Calcutta, where his father, a political leader in the Tibetan government, had been posted. He went to the elite St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, got an MBA in the United States, ran a family business for several years in New York City, and then returned to India in 1977 to serve as his uncle's special assistant. Two years later, he went to Beijing for Tibet's first negotiations with...
...perhaps the most extraordinary turn has been his recent conversion to the cause of full independence for Tibet - standing apart from both his father and the Dalai Lama. Thirty years of negotiation have been fruitless, he says, and China has not made any effort to acknowledge the demands of the Tibetan people for autonomy. "There is a generation's difference between my father and myself," he says. His father is an old-school diplomat, while Thondop isn't shy about openly criticizing the current Chinese leadership. He calls them "a bunch of cheats and liars" for denying that Deng...