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Fresh protests broke out in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on Friday, with indications that what had until now been peaceful demonstrations have turned violent. Varying numbers of casualties have been reported among clashes that residents, academics and activists say have erupted between Tibetans and Chinese security forces, with accounts of gunfire, police cars burning, and bodies in the streets. Whatever the outcome, though, it seemed to be a turning point in the history of Tibet and perhaps also China. "This is massive," said one Tibet specialist who was in touch with many Lhasa residents, "it is the intifadeh...
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...most recent Harvard Tibet conference, late last year, occurred amid a hurricane of news events. The Dalai Lama met the leaders of Germany, the U.S. and Canada in quick succession. Headlines trumpeted Beijing's angry response. In Tibet, 4,000 armed police confronted monks at Lhasa's venerated Drepung Monastery when they tried to celebrate the Dalai Lama being awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. Then the Chinese government announced that it must certify all new reincarnations of Tibetan Buddhism's top clerics, signaling its firm intention to select and control the next Dalai Lama when the current 14th Dalai...
...this could soon change. A road is slowly creeping through the heart of Upper Mustang. It connects Lo Monthang to Tibet, carrying cheap Lhasa beer and change to the walled city. Workers are painstakingly hacking out the northward road from the rock along the Kali Gandaki River as I write. Within decades, maybe far sooner, the old trade route from Tibet to India will be revived in far different form, Tata trucks rumbling over the ancient paths on which yaks once marched...
Marco Rosin is a little nervous about uprooting the lady of the house. In this case, he's not referring to the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, whose body lies buried next to those of her beloved Lhasa Apsos-including Cappuccino, Peacock and Sir Herbert-in the garden of her Venice palazzetto. Instead, on this warm June afternoon, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection registrar's charge is Alberto Giacometti's 1.5-m bronze Standing Woman, 1947, whose elegantly elongated frame appears like an apparition a few meters from Guggenheim's grave, where it usually guards the benefactress' Byzantine garden seat...