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NEWS ABOUT: Dalai Lama

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 China Cracks Down 
 on Tibetan Rioters 

Security forces begin house-by-house searches and arrests in Lhasa

Mar 17, 08 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities cracked down on Tibetan rioters today, conducting house-to-house searches in Lhasa ahead of the midnight deadline for rioters to turn themselves in. A convoy of four Chinese trucks marched 40 handcuffed prisoners through the city. The participants in the riots, the worst the region has seen in 20... More »

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China • Beijing • Tibet • Dalai Lama • riots • Lhasa

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 Riots Spread Outside Tibet 

Protesters torch marketplace, police station in Sichuan province

Mar 16, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Following violent protests against Chinese rule that left 80 dead in Lhasa, according to the exiled Tibetan government, rioting flared today in a province bordering Tibet. Ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan besieged the main government building and set fire to a police station and marketplace. "They've gone crazy," one... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • riots • Lhasa • Sichuan province

 Dalai Lama Calls for Tibet Probe 

He says 80 protesters killed; Chinese soldiers clamp down in Lhasa

Mar 16, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Dalai Lama today called for an international investigation into China and accused it of engaging in "cultural genocide" in Tibet, the AP reports. The spiritual leader said 80 people have been killed in recent protests. Chinese soldiers and tanks patrolled the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa... More »

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China • Condoleezza Rice • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Lhasa • Gansu province

 India Crushes Tibetan March 

Police bust exiles trying to march back home

Mar 13, 08 6:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Indian police stopped a group of Tibetan exiles marching back to their homeland after just 30 miles, reports the BBC. The activists set off Monday from Dharamsala, the seat of the exiled Tibetan government, heading for the Chinese border on the 49th anniversary of a failed Tibetan coup to throw... More »

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China • India • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetans in exile

Tibetan Voices Grow Louder

Plight of Tibet is back in the spotlight

Mar 12, 08 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly a half-century after China brutally crushed Tibetan opposition and sent the Dalai Lama into exile, calls for China to give Tibet more freedom are stronger than they have been in decades. While Beijing remains unwilling to budge, activists plan to use China's time in the Olympic spotlight to show... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetans in exile

Tibet Monks Protest China Rule

Dozens arrested in biggest demonstrations since 1989

Mar 11, 08 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tibetan monks staged the biggest protests against the Chinese government in 2 decades yesterday, reports the Times of London. The two sides clashed in Lhasa amid sporadic gunfire. Hundreds of monks and supporters marked the anniversary of a failed 1959 Tibetan uprising. Sources say police arrested as many as 60... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • monks • Tibetan independence • Lhasa • political protest • political demonstrations • Jokhang

Tibetans Begin Trek Home to Protest China Policies

Thousands bid farewell to marchers as they leave Dharamsala

Mar 10, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cheering thousands bid farewell to more than 100 Tibetan exiles as they began a trek today from India back to their homeland to protest China's rule over Tibet.  "Everybody is pumped up," said one marcher. "Many people were in tears as they said goodbye." ... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence • Tibetans • Tibetans in exile • Dharamsala

Next Dalai Lama May Be Female

Tibetan Buddhist leader opens door to female successor

Dec 7, 07 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The Dalai Lama has revealed that his successor might be a woman, the Telegraph reports. Although some lamas, or living Buddhas, are female, the large majority are men and most consider themselves reincarnations of people of the same gender. But the leader of the Tibetan Buddhists, who is currently visiting... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama

China Fires Back at US in Diplomatic Feud

Beijing blasts arms sale to Taiwan, honor for Dalai Lama

Nov 29, 07 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Tensions between the US and China took a turn for the worse today with China making clear that its refusal to let a US Navy carrier dock in Hong Kong was deliberate and not a simple "misunderstanding" as characterized by the White House. Beijing said "erroneous" US activities—... More »

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China • Taiwan • United States • Dalai Lama • international relations • USS Kitty Hawk

Dalai Lama May Name Own Successor

Anti-Chinese maneuver would be huge break from tradition

Nov 20, 07 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Fearful that the Chinese will influence the process, the Dalai Lama says he may break with Tibetan tradition and choose his own successor, the BBC reports. For centuries, senior Buddhist officials have searched for a child born around the time the previous Dalai Lama died. "If China selected my... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence

This Seafarer Hunts Whalers, Not Whales

‘Sea Shepherd’ enforces own marine rules, ignores others

Oct 30, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Watson is far too radical for Greenpeace, the group he co-founded. His vigilante group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a roving pack of eco-saboteurs, trolling international waters for whalers—and ramming the offending ships. Watson usually operates illegally, and his theatrical and violent defense of aquatic life is credited... More »

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Greenpeace • Dalai Lama • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society • Paul Watson • whaling • Mick Jagger • whaler

Canada Hails Dalai, China Rages

Latest welcome for Tibetan exile new blow to China

Oct 30, 07 3:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolled out the red carpet for the Dalai Lama yesterday, provoking the wrath of the Chinese government. The two men exchanged traditional white Tibetan silk scarves, with Harper's gift to his guest embroidered with the Canadian maple leaf. The Chinese are furious over the attention... More »

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Afghanistan • China • Angela Merkel • Canada • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Stephen Harper • George W. Bush

China Clashes With Tibetan Monks in Wake of Dalai Award

Authorities crack down on celebrations

Oct 23, 07 6:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese security forces in Tibet have clashed with Buddhist monks celebrating the Dalai Lama's recent honor from the US, the Guardian reported. Police and soldiers in the capital Lhasa and in outlying areas cracked down on monasteries holding special services in honor of the Tibetan spiritual leader, according to Hong... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Lhasa

China Livid at Dalai Lama Award

China tells American ambassador relations 'gravely undermined'

Oct 18, 07 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - China called the US ambassador on the carpet today, saying that the US had "gravely undermined relations" when President Bush yesterday presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that DC is "very aware of what steps it can take"... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Congressional Gold Medal • George W. Bush

US Awards Medal to Dalai Lama

Public display angers Chinese government

Oct 17, 07 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Congress awarded the Dalai Lama its highest civilian honor today, New York Times reports. At the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal, which went ahead despite vehement Chinese opposition, the Tibetan spiritual leader congratulated China on its economic growth and gently urged that the country embrace “transparency, the rule... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • George W. Bush

Bush Meets
Dalai Lama,
but Quietly

Low-profile get-together, US
award enrage China

Oct 16, 07 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush ignored China's fury today and met with the Dalai Lama, who will pick up a Congressional Gold Medal tomorrow, Reuters reports. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world," said a Tibetan Communist Party... More »

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China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Congressional Gold Medal • George W. Bush

Burma Protests a 'Success,' Says Buddhist Leader

Famed anti-Vietnam agitator supports
monks on US tour

Oct 14, 07 7:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Revered Buddhist spokesman Thich Nhat Hanh, famed for enlisting Martin Luther King's help against the Vietnam War, is supporting his spiritual brethren in Burma on a US tour. The monks' struggle against Burma is "already a success," he told Time, "because if monks are imprisoned or have... More »

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Vietnam • Dalai Lama • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhism • monks • military junta • Thich Nhat Hanh • meditation • Zen • Theravada • Mahayana • Vajrayana

Dubya Will Meet With Dalai

Oct 12, 07 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will meet with the Dalai Lama next  week before the monk is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Not so delighted with the Washington love fest are Chinese government officials, and the meeting is bound to infuriate them further. Beijing has already blasted the US for “using... More »

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China • Dalai Lama • Buddhism • peace • Medal of Honor • George W. Bush

Dalai Visits Germany; China Irked

Beijing responds: calls off German trade talks

Sep 23, 07 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet today with the Dalai Lama, even as China responded by canceling meetings in Munich. The Chinese government, which governs Tibet, derided the meeting as part of the Dalai Lama's agenda to promote Tibetan independence. BBC reports the Germans were unmoved: "The meeting will... More »

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Angela Merkel • Germany • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence

New Buddhas Made in China, Bejing Decrees

Tibetans forbidden
to anoint successors
to Dalai Lama

Aug 4, 07 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - China's office of religious affairs has cracked down on the Tibetan practice of designating "living Buddhas," writes the Telegraph. A notice published yesterday forces Tibetan lamas to obtain Chinese permission before naming reincarnations. The exiled Tibetan government suggests the new rules signal that Beijing will try to name... More »

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China • exile • Tibet • Buddha • Dalai Lama • Panchen Lama

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