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...like to believe?Elizabeth Arden cosmetics and the latest Bing Crosby records were freely available there long before the Chinese arrived. Barnett goes out of his way to say nothing about exiled Tibet, and every time Tibetans start to speak to him about their much-missed leader, the Dalai Lama, he shies away, if only because such conversations can have bloody repercussions for a Tibetan, if not for a foreign visitor...
What could the Dalai Lama and George Clooney possibly have in common? It turns out that the spiritual guru and the “Ocean’s Eleven” heartthrob are teaming up to advocate an initiative called Film Your Issue, a competition in which young people create films about world issues such as poverty and AIDS. Film Your Issue is an unprecedented outreach inviting young Americans to make 30- to 60-second “issue films,” which can either be live-action or animated. The noble vision of the organization...
...province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou two weeks ago. The main speaker was the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama, who in 1995 was named by the Chinese in place of the child monk the Dalai Lama himself had chosen for a key position in the Tibetan...
...DALAI LAMA: I have two major commitments. Number one is the promotion of human values - not because of religious belief, but because of biological reasoning. We need peace of mind. Peace of mind is good for health, good for community, good for family, and also for physical growth. A peaceful mind is more proper. A disturbed mind, harmful. My number two commitment, as a believer, is for harmony among the different religious traditions. In the last 20, 30 years, I made these two commitments whenever I had the opportunity. As far as the promotion of religious harmony is concerned...
...world knows the Dalai Lama is not seeking independence. The world knows. Still the Chinese do not know. [Laughs...