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Religion and Politics: commentary

Sunday 7 September 2008 by Samten G Karmay

The Tibetans prided themselves on what they believed to be a unique tradition, the "combination of religion and politics" (chosi zungdrel). The concept itself goes a long way back in Tibet’s history. However, many other countries still have similar traditions. It was only at the (...) > continue

The “Olympics Diary” of a Tibetan

By Tashibod, www.chinadigitaltimes.net

Sunday 7 September 2008 by TW

Today is Tuesday, July 22, 2008, and it is the tenth day since I came back to my hometown. Within these ten days, even when I refused to watch any TV and kept myself away from the internet, almost every day I could still hear about and see things concerning the Beijing Olympics in the home of a (...) > continue

Acme of Obscenity

Tom Grunfeld and The Making of Modern Tibet

Monday 18 August 2008 by Jamyang Norbu

In his Epistulae (Letters) the younger Pliny mentions that his uncle the natural historian and philosopher, Pliny the Elder, used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” Well, that was back in ancient Rome. Whether such an outlook could embrace contemporary hate (...) > continue

Discussing Tibet, Without BS

Wednesday 13 August 2008 by Jamyang Norbu

For a book dealing with Sino-Tibetan relations Warren Smith’s new work takes an unusual standpoint. It refuses to assume the currently fashionable “a plague on both your houses” attitude; i.e. to regard the present problems of Tibet not just as originating from the harsh policies of the Chinese (...) > continue

Banning Tibet: Woeser

Woeser on how China closed a country

Friday 1 August 2008 by Woeser

A great cry, a noise that can be produced only by those who live in the grasslands, sounded from the Tibetan lands in March 2008, shocking the world. The Chinese media called it "the wolf howling". When the Olympic torch passed through Lhasa, Tibetans were not allowed to leave their homes (...) > continue

Black Annals: Goldstein & the Negation of Tibetan History (part II)

Friday 1 August 2008 by Jamyang Norbu

The myth of Lungshar as a progressive revolutionary hero has been around long before Goldstein’s book. Dawa Norbu, in his Red Star Over Tibet, states that “Tsepon Lungshar, the finance minister, led the ‘Young Tibet Group’ — a liberal democratic party. Lungshar, who had visited India and some (...) > continue

The Beijing Olympics

Wednesday 30 July 2008 by Tsoltim N. Shakabpa

With the dawning of August 8, 2008 

The vicious lies and hidden traps nest at Beijing’s gate 

Awaiting the innocent international athletes and visitors 

Ready to pounce on them like mephistophelean inquisitors 

The viscid web has been cast 

And the spider is set to prey 

But the world says, "Not (...) > continue

Black Annals: Goldstein & the Negation of Tibetan History (part I)

Sunday 20 July 2008 by Jamyang Norbu

What made many in the Tibetan world stand up and pay attention to Professor Melvyn Goldstein’s A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, when it appeared in 1989 was the unmistakable impression the book gave — even in the preliminary flip-through-the-pages — that here (...) > continue

Lhasa, Making Sound in Fear

The Fear in Lhasa, as Felt in Beijing Part II

Wednesday 16 July 2008 by Woeser

“But oh that we might be As splinters of glass In cupped hands…” Aung San Suu Kyi One day in April I used the payphone at a Newsstand to call and say hello to my two friends in Amdo and Kham, and it is fortunate that they are both safe. What made me want to laugh and make me feel sad is that (...) > continue

The Fear in Lhasa, as Felt in Beijing

part I

Wednesday 16 July 2008 by Woeser

“But oh that we might be As splinters of glass In cupped hands…” Aung San Suu Kyi It was one day in April. When I met DZ, he was standing on the street with the lights just turned on near Saite Shopping centre, dully watching the never-ending flow of cars and people. Earlier, I had heard from (...) > continue