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• Must We love the Party…

  13 May, by Bhuchung D Sonam

  On 8 May, among many issues the Tibetan prime minister discussed at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Dr Lobsang Sangay said: ’We don’t challenge, or ask for, an overthrow of the Communist Party. We don’t question or challenge the present structure of the ruling party.’ The ruling party being the Communist Party of China (CCP). This statement by the popularly-elected head of the exile Tibetan government contradicts two of the fundamental principles that his administration stands for (...)

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• "Tibet’s Next Incarnation?"

  29 April, by Jamyang Norbu

  CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, CONFUSION AND CONSPIRACIES AT THE CENTRAL TIBETAN ADMINISTRATION For some months now, large-scale protests and violent street battles have been raging throughout Cairo and other major cities of Egypt. Thousands of Egyptian liberals and secularists have come out on the streets to protest what they called President Mohamed Morsi’s “power-grab”, after he issued a declaration awarding himself new powers, which he claimed were “temporary” until a new constitution was put in (...)

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• To think independently is more important than dogma

  26 April, by Tenzin Nyinjey

  In his biography of Mila Repa, Tsangnyon Heruka (1452-1507) wrote: When one of his disciples asked Mila Repa whose reincarnation you are, the great yogi said, "I don’t even know myself whose reincarnation I am. That you believe in me as a reincarnation of a Boddhisatva is your superstition. In fact believing in reincarnation is the worst form of heresy." Mila Repa’s above comment is enlightening. It testifies the corruption of the Tulku system and the dangers of theocracy to human (...)

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• My nephew and the Self-Immolation

  13 March, by TW

  I was sleeping in on Saturday morning when my cell phone rang several times. I picked it up without looking at the number. Over the phone I heard crying and the sounds of protest and the local dialect of my town Amchok: "Boys, don’t be sad, be strong, walk this way, walk forward. Om mani padme hum, Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso." No one was talking to me over the phone and I realized that something bad had happened. I quickly called the other villagers who said, "I am sorry your brother’s lovely son (...)

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• The Massacre of Tibetans

  11 November 2012, by TW

  Tibetan writer Woeser takes issue with the Chinese author of a recent book on Tibetan history, saying her views gloss over the horrors of the Chinese occupation. I haven’t yet had the chance to read the book by Tibet historian Li Jianglin, titled When The Iron Bird Flies: A Secret War. I have only seen some of the reports and the author’s preface online. The key sentences in the author’s preface are: "The mid-1950s to the early 1960s saw a tragic war in southwestern and northwestern China, (...)

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