Rare Tibetan Buddhist shrine goes on display in Washington

2010-03-12T09:16:53Z

<div><p>A complete Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, including a silver Buddha, gem-encrusted adornments and silk scroll paintings, goes on display for the first time in Washington on Saturday.</p><p>The shrine room has been set up in a religiously accurate manner with ritual implements, including some blessed by the Dalai Lama, and a shrine loaned by a private co...

Dalai Lama doc wins Havel award at film festival

2010-03-12T07:16:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Dalai Lama documentary wins Vaclav Havel award at human rights film festival in Prague</div><div><p>A documentary by two Tibetan filmmakers tracing a year in the life of the Dalai Lama has won the Vaclav Havel award for its contribution to the protection of human rights.</p><p>"The Sun Behind...

Other world leaders should meet Dalai Lama: envoy

2010-03-11T12:15:44Z

<div><p>World leaders should follow the example of US President Barack Obama and meet the Dalai Lama despite China's objections, the Tibetan spiritual leader's envoy to Europe said Thursday.</p><p>"President Obama did not give in to this pressure and met with his holiness the Dalai...

China steps up security crackdown in Tibet

2010-03-11T09:16:52Z

<div><p>Chinese security forces have stepped up a crackdown in Tibet's capital Lhasa, two years after protests marking a failed 1959 uprising erupted in deadly violence, police and reports said Thursday.</p><p>More than 400 people have reportedly been rounded up so far in the "strike hard storm" campaign launched earlier this month, which has worried residents on edge since the March 2008 unrest in the remote

Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism

2010-03-10T09:32:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Marking anniversary, Dalai Lama says China attempting to annihilate Buddhism in Tibet</div><div><p>The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed H...

'Little hope' of resolving Tibet issue: Dalai Lama

2010-03-10T08:17:46Z

<div><p>The Dalai Lama admitted on Wednesday there was "little hope" of the current Chinese government compromising on the issue of Tibet, after years of vain attempts to win autonomy for his homeland.</p><p>Insisting that he sought no political power in Tibet, he also urged Tibetans working within the Chinese administration to visit Tibetan communities in "the free world" to get...

China says only socialism can "save" Tibet

2010-03-10T07:00:37Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - The new Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet said on Sunday that only socialism can "save" the remote region and guarantee its development, and blamed the Dalai Lama for Tibet's problems.</p><p>China h...

Dalai Lama risks Chinese ire to back Uighurs

2010-03-10T05:15:26Z

<div><p>DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, r...

India Tibet

2010-03-10T02:45:55Z

The Dalai Lama smiles as he prepares to deliver his annual address from exile in India, marking the 51st anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in Dharamsla, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in syste...

Heavy security is the new normal in China's Tibet

2010-03-08T03:30:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Armed patrols, calls for unity and tension fill Tibet's capital 2 years after deadly riot</div><div><p>The troops with automatic rifles patrolling the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet are as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims.</p><p>Two years after Lhasa erupted in a riot that set off anti-government protests across Tibetan areas of China...

China Politics

2010-03-07T05:33:32Z

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi arrives for a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Yang said Sunday that it is up to the United States to improve relations that...

China expects further Xinjiang separatist attacks

2010-03-07T05:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">China says it expects further attacks by Xinjiang separatists, calls them 'doomed to failure'</div><div><p>China says it expects new attacks by separatists seeking independence for the traditionally Turkic Muslim region of Xinjiang after deadly ethnic violence there last year.</p><p>Despite massive pressure from security forces, separatists will continu...

China says missing Panchen Lama is living in Tibet

2010-03-07T02:00:22Z

<div id="subtitle">China says boy chosen by Dalai Lama as Panchen Lama is living normal life with family in Tibet</div><div><p>A boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region

China's Panchen Lama vows to defend ethnic unity: report

2010-03-04T22:16:12Z

<div><p>China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Panchen Lama, has vowed to defend national and ethnic unity in his debut as a delegate to a parliamentary advisory body.</p><p>"I have shouldered the mission of safeguarding national unity and ethnic solidarity since I was enthroned," Gyaincain Norbu told the official Xinhua news a...

Tibetans fear China's hand in Dalai Lama succession

2010-03-04T17:15:19Z

<div><p>TONGREN, China (Reuters) - For Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, one question is very much on their minds these days -- who will succeed the aging exiled spiritual leader once he dies?</p><p>The possibility that scares most of them, and is seen as the most likely to happen, is that the ...

Thailand denies visa to Dalai Lama's sister

2010-03-04T02:45:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Thailand denies Dalai Lama's sister visa to go to Bangkok fair, fearing it could upset China</div><div><p>Thailand has denied a visa to the sister of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fearing it could upset relations wi...

Tibetans, Han ignore politics to build uneasy ties

2010-03-02T14:34:11Z

<div><p>TONGREN, China (Reuters) - Tibet's troubled politics may have grabbed headlines for decades, but the relationship between Tibetans and the dominant Han Chinese is far more complex and multifaceted than the bitter public arguments suggest.</p><p>The two peoples share a long historical attachment to Buddhism which year...

China's Panchen Lama named to legislative body

2010-02-28T23:15:28Z

<div><p>China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader has been named to a parliamentary advisory body, amid an apparent push by Beijing to promote his legitimacy.</p><p>The naming of 20-year-old Gyaincain Norbu to the body followed news last month that he had been elected vice president of the nation's Buddhist Association.</p><p>Gyaincain Norbu...

China raises profile of its choice of Dalai Lama's No 2

2010-02-28T19:00:39Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China has moved to raise the profile of the teenage Panchen Lama, traditionally the second-most powerful figure in Tibetan Buddhism who plays a role in the controversial selection of the next Dalai Lama.</p><p>The Panchen Lama, who turns 20 t...

Panchen Lama named to top advisory body in China

2010-02-28T18:45:18Z

<div id="subtitle">China seeks to raise profile of Panchen Lama, naming him to top legislative advisory body</div><div><p>The Panchen Lama, the young man enthroned by Beijing as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, has joined China's top legislative advisory body.</p><p>The 20-year-old Panchen Lama, whose name is

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