Word: sino-tibetan
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...persuaded his nomad parents to break camp early in order to be in the right place when the searchers arrived. Within months, he was installed in the Karmapa's Tsurphu Monastery as a near divine bodhisattva--or enlightened being--and, by extension, a player in the perilous world of Sino-Tibetan politics...
...exiled Tibetan scholars. In the real world, the simplest facts about Tibet are so divisive that dialogue is impossible. Chinese speak of the 1950 peaceful liberation of the Chinese province of Tibet, and of its subsequent modernization; Tibetans speak of the invasion of an independent nation, and the suppression of its religious and cultural traditions. The polite rules established at Harvard, however, at least allow the two sides to exchange views. In fact, a senior Chinese scholar attending the first Harvard event met with the Dalai Lama's envoy. That secret meeting birthed the official Sino-Tibetan dialogue between...
...Today's sporadic Sino-Tibetan dialogue continues not because China wants to use it to reach some accommodation with the Dalai Lama, but because China does not want to be blamed for ending it. Yet Beijing needs to engage the Dalai Lama because only he has the legitimacy among Tibetans to negotiate, and sell, genuine autonomy to the Tibetans. Inviting the Dalai Lama to China would do more to burnish the country's international image in this Olympic year than any other single step. When the Dalai Lama departs the scene, things will become harder, not easier, for China...
Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...
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