Tag: tibet
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March 16, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
The ruling clique of China is really sweating today. For the past couple of years they have assiduously cultivated the appearance of being kinder and gentler as the memories of the Tiananmen massacre . . .
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April 09, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
I think that letting China host the Olympics while they so openly oppress Tibet and have been for so many years, not to mention all their many other human rights violations, and I intend to not watch . . .
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April 10, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
I have a lot of things on my mind today. I don't know if I have the time to fully explore them here as I'm on my way out the door on an errand that will take most of the day. However, I did want . . .
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May 02, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
According to the BBC, Chinese authorities have discovered that a factory in Guangdong was manufacturing "Free Tibet" flags.
The workers said they thought they were just making "colorful . . .
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March 20, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
Try this quote on for size. It's from the mouth of Zhang Qingli, who is the Communist party boss in Tibet:
"The Dalai Lama is a wolf in monk's robe, a devil with a human face but the heart . . .
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March 29, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
From the Free Tibet Website:
Web Site: http://www.freetibet.net/
Note: Please go to this website and sign this important petition! With the Olympics focusing attention on China, this is . . .
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May 28, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
Now, this is something I never knew about and thought I would share with you.
Tibetan prayer wheels (called Mani wheels by the Tibetans) are devices for spreading spiritual blessings and well-being. . . .
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May 31, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
According to the Tibetan Buddhists, today (May 31, 2007) is a day when you need to be extremely careful about what you say and do - good and bad. That's because today is Saka Gawa, the day of the full . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
Plea From The Tibetan Solidarity Committee
April 6, 2008, the Tibetan Solidarity Committee posted this plea on internet sites throughout the globe. It seems reasonable to allow media and humanitarian . . .
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April 14, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
This is a hilarious summary of the confused minds of the Western world..., so confused that even the Chinese people get confused ( from China Herald) .
What do you want from us?
When we were . . .
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March 15, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
First, I should say that I have visited Lhasa seven times over the past 12 years. I have memories indelibly etched into my mind of the streets, the monasteries, the farms and sacred places, the mountains . . .
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March 24, 2008 09:36 PM EDT --
Some people call restoring order "military crackdown". The nerve! Well, I guess it depends on which side you are on. If your brother gets sent away for 5 years for being disorderly, . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet). This . . .
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January 06, 2007 09:56 PM EST --
A SELECTION OF PHOTOS OF THAT UNIVERSAL ANIMAL, THE DOG
Hanging outside a school in Dharamsala, . . .
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March 28, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . .
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April 08, 2008 08:14 AM EDT --
China reportedly is working on a deal with a major advertising agency. Their problem this week is the continuing fallout of the so called Tibet Riot- unhappy crowds trying to snuff out the traveling olympic . . .
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August 07, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
Fred,
Thank you for your e-mail. I would like to add my thoughts.
I am a foreigner living in China, and I have learned many things about my preconceptions about the Chinese government and the . . .
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August 21, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
The Tibetans were likely the first to recognize that the state of the mind has everything to do with the state of the body. One particular exercise they created is called The Tibetan Exercise of Paradox. . . .
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August 06, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
Well, you just can't have those bodhisattvas popping up all over the place without permission, can you?
This takes communist power and control to a new level.
China Tells Living Buddhas . . .
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April 11, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
I just saw this interview and thought it was interesting. Did you see it? ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24072525#24072525 ) What did you think? I thought it was good to see and I think he is . . .
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