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...Holiness the Dalai Lama describes himself as a "simple monk," but he represents so much more to so many. He is a source of spiritual refuge, and has used his position to promote wisdom, compassion and nonviolence as a solution to world conflicts...
...question—the result is a stream of new ideas and unexpected discoveries. On the giant bulletin board, strands of jewel-toned Mardi Gras beads dangle over journal articles and newspaper clippings. Tucked among his framed photographs is a picture from his meeting with the Dalai Lama. Rows of uneven books, different sizes and colors, line his shelves, but many are translations of the same one: his New York Times-bestseller, “Stumbling on Happiness...
Relations between Russia and Britain remain chilly since the 2006 murder in London of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, but there are signs that China is warming to Brown. He speaks regularly to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has offered to help facilitate dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and is also lobbying the Chinese to put pressure on Sudan to accept the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur...
...what we’re doing.” Phunkhang, who was educated primarily in England after his father left Tibet in 1959, said he believes Tibetans have four main demands: that the Chinese government release imprisoned Tibetans, give free access to international media, negotiate with the Dalai Lama, and that the Olympic torch not be carried through Tibet. “The Olympic torch cannot pass through Tibet if we are treated like we are,” said Kalsang Namgual, who immigrated from Tibet to India around 1990 and currently lives near Boston. “What does...
...Dalai Lama is not a monk struggling alone. He is instead an ambitious politician crowned as a religious idol who's long been backed by the West, which is either blinded or charmed by him. Does Iyer really believe that the former Tibet, ruled by the Dalai Lama's serfdom, was better or more advanced than the Tibet of today? Victor He, Shanghai...