If there is anything good to be found in the Chinese government’s murderous crackdown on the pro-independence demonstrations spreading like wildfire across Tibet, it is that the Tibetan people are now more unified than ever in their common identity and common demand for freedom and independence.
Throughout history, foreign occupation or colonialism has strengthened a subjugated nation’s […]
Ethnic Tibetans write a Tibetan prayer for good fortune on the surface of a frozen river in Yushu, China. A human rights group accused China of actively trying to undermine the Tibetan language in an effort to assimilate the region’s unique culture.
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This is an exciting time for Tibet. As the Beijing Olympics approach, it’s good to assess now and then where the Tibet movement is. More and more, the Tibet movement has been winning important victories — even as repression worsens inside Tibet.
Internationally, HH the Dalai Lama is receiving more honors than at any time […]
News flash: the Chinese government is using Tibetan school children as Olympic props. According to China’s official Xinhua News, 2,008 middle school students from Lhasa were made to act as “human dominos” in the shape of the Olympic rings to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
We missed the article when it first came out, since it […]
The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has strongly rebuked the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to seize control of Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations.
In a press statement issued jointly with the heads of all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the TGIE calls the Chinese government’s new regulations, which went into effect September 1, ”ludicrous and unwarranted.”
These regulations, the TGIE and […]
Today, September 1, 2007, is truly a black day. Today, China’s ridiculous new regulations come into effect, claiming for the Chinese Communist Party the right to approve Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations.
It is impossible to overstate the anguish these regulations are causing in Tibetans’ hearts.
One Tibetan we spoke with described it this way: an overwhelming and dizzying […]
SFT’s Everest and Beijing actions continue to impact news stories about the Olympics, China, and Tibet.
In the latest example, the UK’s Channel 4 News ran a TV story on August 28 about how the Chinese government is exerting socio-economic control over Tibet. The anchor started out the broadcast mentioning SFT’s “free Tibet” banners, and said […]
It is heart-rending, simply heart-rending, to consider the implications of the Chinese government’s new regulations claiming the right to control Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations. While we wrote about this issue before (here, here and here), a new analysis by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China drives home how terrifying the implications of this regulation could be.
There is no way Tibetans will […]
The current issue of Newsweek has a great article about China’s ridiculous claim that it has the right to control Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation. Newsweek calls it “one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism.” Well said.
We previously discussed this issue (here, here and here), so we’ll just quote this relatively short article in its entirety:
China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation
By Matthew Philips
In one […]
The Economist took a critical look at the Chinese government’s ridiculous claim that it has the right to control reincarnations in Tibetan Buddhism:
Now the government wants to control the process, arrogating to itself the right to approve incarnations. Bizarrely, Order Number Five even provides for “living Buddha permits”… Reincarnation, moreover, is banned in … Xining and Lhasa, […]
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