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• 25 May 08
  

  chong ip

  tibet

• 17 May 08
  

  dan maertens

  Tibet met o;a. een goed overzicht van wat er nu juist chronologisch gebeurde tijdens de rellen...

• 13 May 08
  

  Chris Maloney

  Ostensibly a book review of "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" by Pico Iyer, this article is nonetheless chock-full of very well-written current history about the Tibet situation

  tibet to-read china politics from-delicious

• 12 May 08
  

  Bob Cunningham

  tibet dalai_lama

• 08 May 08
  

  beth gourley

  Review of Pico Iyer's book under the current circumstances Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2F21391

  china tibet

  • events occur that change the ways it can be read.
  • March 10, the forty-ninth anniversary of the failed uprising
  • three hundred or more monks from Drepung Monastery began an orderly march toward the center of Lhasa,
  • made specific demands such as the release of five monks detained the previous October for celebrating the award in Washington of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama
  • Some fifty of the monks were arrested straightaway and their colleagues staged a sit-down in the street
  • In 1990 the police were ordered to switch from what Jiang Zemin, then Chinese Party secretary, called "passive" to "active" policing, the former meaning (crudely) that you beat or shoot protesters once they start
  • average prison sentence was 6.5 years for each participant, and upward of three thousand were detained during this period for peaceful protests or possession of forbidden documents and videos.
  • include campaigns forcing Tibetans to denounce the Dalai Lama
  • prohibition on the construction of new monasteries and on any increase in the number of monk
  • ban on pictures or worship of him
  • ban on students and government employees having religious possessions or carrying out religious practices
  • forced relocation of 250,000 farmers to roadside houses
  • opening in 2006 of the Chinese railway line connecting Tibet to neighboring Qinghai
  • plan for the settlement of 100,000 Tibetan nomads.
  • on March 10 were clearly under orders to use restraint.
  • Early that evening things got tougher in Barkor Square, in the center of Lhasa, when fifteen monks carried the forbidden Tibetan national flag and called for independence: all were dragged away and were later charged with "gathering to create a disturbance by shouting reactionary slogans" and "premeditatedly carrying homemade reactionary flags" (they are currently in detention awaiting trial)
  • ive hundred monks marched from Sera Monastery the following day on behalf of those fifteen arrested monks, the PAP used tear gas briefly, but did not open fire and the monks succeeded in holding a seven-hour sit-down in the street.
  • midday on Friday, March 14
  • group of monks at Ramoche,
  • Ramoche is in the heart of Lhasa, and opens onto a busy market street
  • began to attack the police and a small squad of PAP sent in to support
  • Tibetans turned from attacking police to attacking the next available symbol of Chinese governance, the Chinese migrant population.
  • About a thousand Chinese-owned shops were set on fire by rioters who were seen by foreign tourists igniting cooking gas cylinders or dousing shops in gasoline
  • events of March 14 challenged any assumption that Tibetan Buddhists are necessarily nonviolent or that their political actions are limited to what Deepak Chopra has called "inert pacifism."
  • the 3/14 incident
  • four days following the March 14 riot in Lhasa, Tibetans staged sixty-three protests throughout the Tibetan areas within China, and the number has since risen to ninety-six,
  • , while 85 percent of Tibetans live in the countryside, where their average annual income, despite a 14.5 percent increase, reached only 2,788 yuan ($398) last year
  • overlooks the fact that Tibet was never a Chinese province and was never under direct Chinese rule apart from a few months in 1910–1911, and that Tibet declared independence in 1913.
  • priest–patron" relationship
  • is partly about the difficulties of intellectual engagement with an extremely mild-mannered subject
  • offers a modernist view of Buddhism as a form of rational analysis that aims to "explore the world closely, so as to make out its laws, and then to see what can and cannot be done within those laws.
  • show the Dalai Lama as a man who is both committed to his belief in human tolerance and unpredictable possibilities,
  • pay attention to the cleavages t
  • Tibetan youths who "will use Tibet whenever it suits them"
  • suggests that Tibetans have "paid a high price at times for being associated with movie stars
  • often as much a victim as a maker of the system
  • can a leader who aims to serve the spiritual yearnings of a world community deal with the specific needs of his nation
  • difficulty that most of us face in addressing such questions is that a pathway through them requires detailed knowledge of the Dalai Lama's constituency, its language, religion, and history.
  • slips stem from a worthy concern for the accessible, but they also hint at an absence in the story.
  • nternational pressure on China, are seen by China as provocations and thus are used as an excuse not to meet with him.
  • he events of the past two months have changed the political terrain significantly
  • Estimates of the number of Tibetans detained range from 2,200 to 5,700, and Tibetans of all ages are being required to write formal denunciations of the Dalai Lama
  • protests means that Tibetans
  • have now become important elements of regional strategy and a political priority for Western leaders

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