The Dalai Lama has issued an appeal to Chinese citizens to explain his position and how it differs from the official Chinese government version: Chinese brothers and sisters, I assure you I have no desire to seek Tibet’s...
Read MoreA former top official in China’s ruling Communist Party has called on the Chinese government to open talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as a matter of urgency. Bao Tong, former aide to ousted late...
Read MoreIn the New Yorker (linked to by Howard French), Pankaj Mishra profiles the Dalai Lama as part of a review of a new book about him by Pico Iyer “The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama”: As the...
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor discusses the tenuous position the Dalai Lama finds himself in in the midst of the recent violence erupting in Tibet. Thrust inescapably into the eye of the international storm currently raging over...
Read MoreThe Reuters reports: The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily, said the Dalai Lama – a Nobel peace laureate – had never abandoned violence since fleeing China in 1959,...
Read MoreReuters reporter Benjamin Kang Lim writes from Beijing: A group of 29 Chinese dissidents urged Beijing on Saturday to open direct dialogue with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the wake of rioting in the...
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, wearing a symbolic yellow scarf around her neck, delivered a speech in Dharamshala, India. Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama to help shed “the bright light of...
Read MoreDespite Beijing’s description of recent riots in Tibet and nearby provinces as having been “masterminded and incited by the Dalai Lama clique,” Tony Karon of Time magazine argues that in the final analysis the...
Read MoreIn an exclusive interview with Newsweek reporters Melinda Liu and Sudip Mazumda, the Dalai Lama talks about the violence in Tibet, his vision of the future, and how he manages to sleep in spite of his distress over the killings:...
Read MoreUpdate (12:30 PST): The U.S. has responded to China’s claim that the Dalai Lama was behind rioting in Tibet. Reuters reports (via the Guardian): “We don’t have any evidence one way or the other on that score...
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