Tag Archives: Dalai Lama XIV

• New Taiwan president’s dilemma: to host or not to host the Dalai Lama? 1 March 2016 | Benjamin Kang Lim and JR Wu This post has no comments yet

  Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen's diplomatic honeymoon with China could be shortlived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own. ...

• Chinese celebrities warned not to mix with exiled Tibetans 26 February 2016 | Louise Watt This post has no comments yet

  China's state media have criticized celebrities for attending an event in northeastern India with members of the Tibetan government-in-exile, adding warnings that they must "serve the people and socialism." ...

• China confiscates Dalai Lama portraits 3 February 2016 This post has one comment

  Chinese province Sichuan has ordered Tibetan shopkeepers to hand in portraits of the Dalai Lama, likening the Nobel laureate to executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ...

• Dalai Lama goes to US for medical check up 19 January 2016 This post has one comment

  Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will undergo treatment in the US, and resume his regular schedule in March. ...

• Indian police framing China on Dalai Lama assassination: China 4 January 2016 | Sutirtho Patranobis This post has one comment

  A state media report quoted government statements and said the allegations levelled by the Dalai Lama were a stunt to attract international attention. ...

• The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide 22 December 2015 | David Lague, Paul Mooney, and Benjamin Kang Lim This post has no comments yet

  The doctrinal schism that the Chinese Communist Party is using to hound the Dalai Lama arose long ago in the internecine politics of his own school of Tibetan Buddhism. ...

• China denounces Dalai Lama’s ‘sympathy’ for Islamic State 9 December 2015 | Sui-Lee Wee and Ben Blanchard This post has one comment

  A Chinese official has denounced the Dalai Lama for calling for dialogue with Islamic State militants, saying that it exposed the Tibetan spiritual leader's "sympathy" for the group. ...

• China’s Tibet party boss urges senior monk to shun Dalai Lama | Michael Martina This post has one comment

  China's Communist Party boss in Tibet has urged the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, to reject exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. ...

• Dalai Lama blasted after calling on West to negotiate with ISIS 8 December 2015 | Nick Gutteridge This post has 2 comments

  The world’s most prominent Buddhist — a religion of peace — said education and not war is the key to defeating the jihadi movement. ...

• Dialogue only way in fight against ISIS: Dalai Lama This post has no comments yet

  "One has to listen, to understand, to have respect for the other person, regardless. There is no other way." ...