China's military growth in Tibet is inflicting significant harm on the delicate Himalayan environment and poses risks to regional climate and water security, as highlighted in a fresh report released on Monday by the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), according to Phayul.
Just short of his ninetieth birthday, the Dalai Lama announced, after years of speculation, that he will have a successor. He mentioned in a pre-recorded video, “I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue.
Amidst the ongoing succession row, the Dalai Lama, on his 90th birthday, urged his followers to focus on achieving peace of mind and being compassionate towards everyone, to help make the world a better place.
India’s explicit endorsement of the Dalai Lama’s announcement on the naming of his own successor marks a turning point ~ not just in the spiritual saga of Tibetan Buddhism, but in the geopolitics of Asia.
The Dalai Lama’s decision to formally affirm the continuation of his lineage is far more than a spiritual announcement ~ it is a geopolitical act of defiance, a quiet but profound assertion of Tibetan selfde termination.
Experts have stressed the role of the central government in the Tibetan Buddhism system of reincarnation, saying it's a historical convention that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other living Buddhas is subject to approval of the country's central authority.
Gontse, a teacher of the Tibetan language, was arrested on August 14 at his home in Khyungchu county in Sichuan's Ngaba (in Chinese Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, RFA reported.
The Tibetan population in the hill state drew the attention of the locals to various instances of Chinese oppression against them.
Contrary to the US-Tibet Policy which states that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is solely in the hands of the Tibetans, China has come up with various plans, ploys and tactics to claim that Beijing is the one which has the sole authority to choose the next incarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyats.
Celebrating the 62nd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day on Friday, the Taiwan Parliament Group for Tibet held a commemorative event along with other groups concerned with the development of human rights.
