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| The Dalai Lama says ‘tremendous desperation’ causing self-immolations, Tells Beijing to look into its causes | |
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SENDAI, November 4: “Speaking as an ordinary Tibetan and a Buddhist monk, these incidents of self-immolation are very very sad,” said His Holiness the Dalai Lama today at a press conference in the northern Japanese city of Sendai. “The leadership in Beijing should look into the ultimate cause of these tragic incidents. These Tibetans have faced tremendous desperate situation, otherwise nobody will commit such drastic acts”. Responding to questions on the spate of self-immolations in Tibet that has already seen eleven Tibetans set their bodies on fire since March this year, the Dalai Lama clarified that Dr Lobsang Sangay, the de facto prime minister of Tibet, was the right person to be asked these questions. “I have completely handed over all my political responsibilities to the elected leadership. Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangay is in Washington DC right now, so better ask him,” the Dalai Lama said. Referring to Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao’s public statements on the need for political reform inside China, His Holiness remarked that time of using force was over. “Relying on force is counter-productive. Force can never bring unity and stability,” the Dalai Lama said while expressing hope that the Chinese leadership “pays serious attention” to the need for a review of its minority policies. The Tibetan spiritual leader, who is currently on a 10-day visit to Japan, arrived this afternoon in Sendai from the temple town of Koyasan, where in a span of four days, he gave Buddhist initiations and interacted with scientists. Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay, who is on his first visit to Washington, D.C., since assuming the office of the chief on the Tibetan exile cabinet, testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. Blaming China’s “repressive policies” for the fiery episode of self-immolations inside Tibet, Dr Sangay said that China’s hard line policies of “turning many parts of Tibet into a virtual state of martial law” following the popular 2008 uprisings in Tibet has “driven the Tibetan people to a desperate situation”. “We ask the Chinese government to stop its repressive policies, including suspension of implementation of religious control regulations, review of religious and security policies implemented since 2008 in Ngaba, and a transparent dialogue with the leaders of Tibetan Buddhist schools.” Demanding access to Ngaba by “journalists, diplomats and United Nations officials,” Kalon Tripa Dr Sangay urged the “Chinese government to resume its dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama.” |
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| Tibetan exile sets self on fire outside Chinese Embassy in Delhi | |
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DHARAMSHALA, November 4: A 25 year old Tibetan refugee living in India, set himself on fire, in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital New Delhi today. Indian policemen on security at the Chinese Embassy tried to extinguish the fire on Sherab Tsedor, a Tibetan activist living in New Delhi, witnesses said. Sherab is currently admitted in a nearby hospital. Prior to the act, Sherab Tsedor, in a press release had urged the Indian government to lead the world community in putting pressure on China to solve the issue of Tibet peacefully. "We are dying and it's the moral responsibility of every freedom loving people to support us," said Tsedor in the release. "I beg and plead the world leaders and peace loving people to help solve the issue of Tibet," added the young Tibetan. Youdon Aukatsang, a member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, who is at the hospital told Phayul that Tsedor is out of danger, though doctors are examining his injuries sustained to due burns. "His thigh got burnt badly and doctors have confirmed around 15 percent to 16 percent burn injuries on Sherab's body," said Aukatsang. This incident of self-immolation by a Tibetan in exile comes after eleven Tibetans in Tibet, since March this year, have set themselves ablaze in protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet and have demanded the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. Six Tibetans, including Palden Choetso, a 35 year old nun, who set herself ablaze yesterday in Kham Tawu, eastern Tibet, have succumbed to burn injuries after fiery acts of self-immolation. Currently on a visit to Japan, the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama while responding to questions from the media said that the self-immolations were a sign of "deep desperation" while calling for a review of China's policies in Tibet. |
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| Tibetan exile sets self on fire outside Chinese Embassy in Delhi | |
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DHARAMSHALA, November 4: A 25 year old Tibetan refugee living in India, set himself on fire, in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital New Delhi today. Indian policemen on security at the Chinese Embassy tried to extinguish the fire on Sherab Tsedor, a Tibetan activist living in New Delhi, witnesses said. Sherab is currently admitted in a nearby hospital. Prior to the act, Sherab Tsedor, in a press release had urged the Indian government to lead the world community in putting pressure on China to solve the issue of Tibet peacefully. "We are dying and it's the moral responsibility of every freedom loving people to support us," said Tsedor in the release. "I beg and plead the world leaders and peace loving people to help solve the issue of Tibet," added the young Tibetan. Youdon Aukatsang, a member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, who is at the hospital told Phayul that Tsedor is out of danger, though doctors are examining his injuries sustained to due burns. "His thigh got burnt badly and doctors have confirmed around 15 percent to 16 percent burn injuries on Sherab's body," said Aukatsang. This incident of self-immolation by a Tibetan in exile comes after eleven Tibetans in Tibet, since March this year, have set themselves ablaze in protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet and have demanded the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. Six Tibetans, including Palden Choetso, a 35 year old nun, who set herself ablaze yesterday in Kham Tawu, eastern Tibet, have succumbed to burn injuries after fiery acts of self-immolation. Currently on a visit to Japan, the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama while responding to questions from the media said that the self-immolations were a sign of "deep desperation" while calling for a review of China's policies in Tibet. |
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| TWA raises self immolation crisis with visiting Chinese leader | |
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DHARAMSHALA, November 4: The president of the Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), Dolkar Lhamo Kirti briefly met with a visiting member of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee, Lu Hao in the Indian capital New Delhi on Wednesday and attempted to handover a petition urging the Chinese leadership to “end the repression in Tibet that has caused the self-immolations inside Tibet”. TWA in a release said that Dolkar Lhamo confronted Lu Hao, who is also the secretary of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee, which has a Tibetan population of more than 400,000, at the lobby of Hotel Taj Mahal. “Within the two minutes, Dolkar quickly briefed Lu Hao on the current self-immolation crisis in Tibet and requested that he heed to the demands of the petition titled ‘Tibetans call for Global Intervention to save Tibetan lives in Tibet,’” the release said. “Lu said that he is in India for a different purpose (an exchange programme with the International Department of the Communist Party of China) and that he is not in a position to accept the petition and the scarf,” added the release. The TWA delegates later left the petition and the khathak in the hands of the Chinese Embassy staff present at the hotel, to be passed on to Lu. Following the self-immolation of eleven Tibetans, causing six deaths since March this year, TWA’s delegation - comprising of President Dolkar Lhamo Kirti and Research and Media officer Dhardon Sharling had met with various Indian leaders for a face-to-face lobbying campaign. According to the release, the TWA delegation on November 2 held meetings with senior leaders of ruling Indian National Congress: Mani Shankar Aiyar, Chairman of Congress party's Political Training Department and Dr Karan Singh, former ambassador to United States and UNESCO. A petition was also delivered to Sonia Gandhi through Dr Karan Singh. The TWA delegation also had an exclusive meeting with BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on November 3. “As the leader of the opposition party, Sushma agreed to table the Tibet issue during the upcoming winter session of the parliament beginning November 22,” the release said. |
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| Global Day of Action for Tibet | |
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Tibetan college students in south India and activists from the Tibetan settlements in the Indian state of Karnataka, south India organised a day-long fax jam campaign targeting the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Thursday as a part of the Tibet Global Action Day. "Tibetan activists living in the Tibetan settlements of Bylakuppe, Hunsur, Kollegal, and Mundgod and Tibetan college students studying in Chennai, Bangalore, and Mysore have been sending fax messages demanding China stop its repressive policies in Tibet the whole day," said Lobsang Yeshi, a former youth leader. Yeshi said that the Chinese Embassy’s fax machine must have got jammed as around 20,000 Tibetans had participated in the campaign and sent fax messages to the Embassy. Vijaywada students pedal for Tibetans inside Tibet Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India As part of the Tibet Global Action Day, Tibetan college students in Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh set off on a 50-kilometer cycle rally from Siddharth circle to Amravati. The Indian national president of Samatha Party, V.V Krishna Rao also attended the flaggin-off ceremony on Thursday. |
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| ‘China has an important role in building a healthy world,’ says the Dalai Lama | |
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KOYASAN, November 3: On a day when the topics of discussion at the Koyasan University auditorium ranged from the genetic information of cells to the complex Buddhist ideas of Dharmakaya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama methodically shared his ideas in drawing closer the two poles of human intellectual excellence. On the last day of his stay at one of Japan’s most sacred places, Koyasan, the Tibetan spiritual leader held two separate sessions, one with leading scientists in Japan, carrying out path breaking research, and the other with some of the most learned Buddhist teachers at the Koyasan University who have kept alive the centuries old Shingon esoteric Buddhist tradition. Joining Haruo Saji, a prominent Japanese physicist, Natalia Polouliakh, an Associate Researcher at the Tokyo based Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and Kenichiro Mogi, a Japanese brain scientist for a discussion between modern science and Buddhist science, the Tibetan spiritual leader attentively listened to their presentations and answered queries. Explaining the Buddhist philosophy of the non-existence of independent absolute reality, the Dalai Lama argued that without the concept of interdependency, the nature of time cannot be pinpointed. “If we introspect, time has no independent identity. Past is memory, future is yet to come. Therefore, present is very very important,” the Dalai Lama said. “Utilise time properly, meaningfully. That is most important”. Following the discussions that exceeded well beyond its scheduled time, Haruo Saji thanked the Dalai Lama for sharing his thoughts and “refined knowledge” with the participants. “Listening to you, Your Holiness, I feel inspired to carry more work on my field,” Saji said. Speaking to Phayul after the session, Natalia Polouliakh expressed her astonishment at the close relation between Buddhist science and practical biology. “The Dalai Lama’s talk helped me in connecting the dots that our feelings of happiness or anger are directly related to our health,” Polouliakh said. Later in the afternoon, His Holiness met with members of the Koyasan University faculty lead by the 125-year old University’s President. Rev. Fujita Kokan. Appreciating the “keenness and seriousness” shown by the Japanese Buddhists, His Holiness mooted the idea of setting up an extensive joint programme for a comparative study of Japanese and Tibetan Buddhists texts and scriptures. “Since you all are very interested, we must start some programme involving detailed and extensive discussion and study of texts and scriptures among few of the professors from your university and Tibetans from India,” the Dalai Lama said. “You must translate your seriousness into a long-term action that can benefit the generations to come,” the Tibetan spiritual leader advised. His Holiness noted that although Tibetans have suffered great hardships and lived as refugees for the past more than six decades with no religious freedom inside Tibet, the Tibetan community has been able to successfully keep their centuries-old knowledge “intact”. Highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge amongst the traditionally Buddhist countries in Asia, the Dalai Lama envisaged an important role for China, with its 1.3 billion people, in building a “happy world” in the future “By building healthy Buddhist countries we can build a healthy Asia and a healthy Asia will lead to a healthy and happy world,” the Dalai Lama said. Accepting an invitation from the University to visit Koyasan again, His Holiness said to a thunderous applause, “I have received genuine love, kindness, and compassion from you all. I will come again.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit Sendai, one of the areas worst hit by the March tsunami tomorrow. |
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| In pictures: Tibetan exiles rally | |
 
Tibetan exiles around the world, like this man in India, have been expressing solidarity with protestors inside Tibet. |
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| more readings>>> Pa dru Daman Tsang Dambruggestraat 34 Autwerpen 2060 Belgium September 23, 2005 Dearest Uncle, I hope this letter of mine will find you in the best of spirit and in the pink of health. To begin with this letter, I feel that I am sending this letter to my father because I always used to feel that you are like a father to me. I am indebted to you. What I am today is all because of you. I would be like a fish on a dry land without your care and love. I would have been that same uneducated girl, blind and wearing topsy-turvy clothes. You supported me to slip through the net of darkness and changed me from a remote village girl into a modern school going girl. Whenever I did something worthy, first of all a glimpse of you comes in front of me and I feel really proud and think, "Yes Uncle. I did it." Likewise if I am unable to negotiate a path through a maze of hurdles and I failed, immediately a picture of you flashes in front of my eyes and encourages me to do better next time. You had acknowledged the importance of education for me. Thank you for every thing you did for me. I am extremely grateful to you. Unfortunately the sudden departure of us in 2001, when you left for abroad startled me! But in some ways I am grateful to this departure as it let me realize how much you mean to me. I didn't know it before though you stood by my side whenever I am in dilemmas. May be it’s because of my innocence and ignorance. A deep sense of regret always click my mind for that. Moreover, I may have created many mischief which might have hurt you. Today through this letter, I beg your pardon for all those things. Yeah! I know you will forgive me but for the sake of fading away of my sense of regret. Fate has played a very cruel joke on me by letting me depart from my dearest parents in 1997, but I never felt their absence because of your presence, care, love and kindness. Your love and care is a treasure that I really can't measure. This letter is only a piece of what I feel for you; while your contribution for me is like a vast ocean. So, with this I am going to stop my dancing pen here. With lots of love, Your niece, Apa Lhamo XI C |
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