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Dalai Lama warns against generalizing Islam
WASHINGTON — Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, warned Wednesday not to generalize Islam as a negative force and called on believers of different faiths to reach out to one another. On a lecture tour of the United States, the world’s best-known Buddhist monk said that every religion including…
Tibetan man self-immolates inside Chinese monastery
A Tibetan has burned himself to death inside a Buddhist monastery in China as part of a grisly series of protests against Beijing’s hardline rule of the region, Radio Free Asia reported. Saturday’s self-immolation by Sangay Gyatso meant that 44 ethnic Tibetans have now burned themselves to death since the…
1,000-year old Buddhist statue taken by Nazis came from meteorite
A thousand-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet in 1938 by an SS team seeking the roots of Hitler’s Aryan doctrine was carved from a meteorite, scientists reported on Wednesday. In a paper published in an academic journal, German and Austrian researchers recount an extraordinary tale where archaeology, the Third Reich…
China to create Tibetan culture theme park just outside Lhasa
Chinese officials have announced plans to build a £3bn Tibetan culture theme park outside Lhasa in three to five years. Authorities see developing tourism as crucial to the economic future of Tibet and have set a goal of attracting 15 million tourists a year by 2015, generating up to 18bn…
China detains hundreds in Tibet capital
Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital, a US-based broadcaster said, as a young mother became the latest Tibetan to self-immolate. Radio Free Asia said Chinese security forces had rounded up hundreds of residents and pilgrims in…
Tibetan protester sets himself ablaze in New Delhi
A Tibetan exile set himself on fire and suffered extreme burns as he ran down a street in New Delhi on Monday to protest against an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao. The 27-year-old, identified by fellow protesters as Janphel Yeshi, carried out his attempted self-immolation in Jantar Mantar, a city centre venue…
China steps up surveillance of Tibetan monasteries
BEIJING — A top official in Tibet’s capital has asked authorities to dispatch police to monasteries and step up security on main roads after violent clashes in Tibetan-inhabited areas left at least two dead. Qi Zhala, Lhasa’s Communist Party chief, also ordered a crackdown on “separatist” activities he linked to…
Tibetan dies after setting himself on fire
BEIJING — A Tibetan man died after he and another man set themselves on fire in southwestern China, state media said Sunday, taking the total number of similar acts to 14 in the restive region in less than a year. The incidents happened Friday near the Kirti monastery in Sichuan…
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