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by Kilung Tulku Tsultrim Rinpoche
Quote: "Today, more than ever before,
life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility,
not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human
to other forms of life." - Dalai Lama
DHARMA Bytes - News on Tibet, Buddhism, and the great teachers
Freed by China, Tibetan nun lands in
U.S.
source: by Joe
McDonald Associated Press Writer
BEIJING -- A Tibetan nun who was China's longest-serving female
political prisoner traveled to the United States Friday, a U.S.-based
activist said. Ngawang Sangdrol flew to the United States accompanied
by a U.S. diplomat, said John...
Beijing in talks on Dalai Lama's return
source: Luke Harding
in New Delhi and Bharati Puri / The Guardian
Secret negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama will resume
next month, amid growing signs that Tibet's spiritual leader
is preparing to cut a historic deal allowing him to return to
Tibet after almost half a century in exile. Several of his...
A monk's harrowing story
source: by Rachel
Grace Toussaint / newsletter@seacoastonline.com
Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso says he feels no anger or resentment
toward the Chinese occupation for imprisoning and abusing him
for 33 years. Even though he was jailed in 1959 - at the height
of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when...
Salesforce.com/foundation Sponsors
13th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert
source: News Editors/Business
Editors/High-Tech Writers / BUSINESS WIRE
Salesforce.com supports internationally renowned work for preservation
of Tibetan culture in conjunction with 4th Annual Freedom from
Software event. Salesforce, announced that tonight the salesforce.com/foundation...
The Dalai Lama in conversation with
Robert Thurman
source: motherjones.com
When the Dalai Lama Accepted the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for his
work on global human rights -- particularly for his ceaseless
efforts to free his country from Chinese rule -- he referred
to himself as "a simple monk from Tibet." But His...
Dzogchen
Khenpo Choga Rinpoche returns to Seattle Feb 8 & 9
We are happy to announce that
Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche will be Seattle for two days of
teachings this coming week. Khenpo Choga Rinpoche has been in
Oregon the last few months, working on starting a retreat
center and...
Khenpo Lungrik Rinpoche to teach on
San Juan Island for first time
source: DharmaWorks
/ Sakya Kachod Choling, San Juan Island, WA
February 6-13, 2003
o The Significance of the Tibetan Buddhist Temple
o The Guru/Disciple Relationship
o Four Mandala Tara Puja
o Empowerment and Teaching on Red Sarasvati
o Empowerment and Teaching on Yellow Jambhala
o Vajrayogini Tsok
o Beginning meditation class
China executes Tibetan after secret
re-trial
source: by Students
for a Free Tibet (SFT) / Tibet News
Students for a Free Tibet is outraged to learn that Chinese authorities
executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at the Sichuan
Provincial Higher People's Court. The court also upheld the death
sentence passed down to Tenzin...
Dalai Lama calls for peace with China
at Buddhist ceremony
source: VOA News
/ Voice of America News
At least four people have been arrested in India amid heightened
security during an eight-day Buddhist ceremony led by the Dalai
Lama that ended Monday. The Dalai Lama concluded rituals marking
the "Kalachakra" Initiation, which is one of...
Dalai Lama opens festival
source: News.com.au
correpsondents in Bodhgaya, India
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Sunday opened
a highly secure, 10-day Buddhist ceremony attended by 200,000
people. Security forces sealed off Bodhgaya - a normally quiet
town in eastern India where the Buddha attained enlightenment
two and...
H.
E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche passes away
source: Chagdud.com
H. E. Chagdud
Tulku Rinpoche was one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist Vajra
masters ever to teach in the west. He was the first one to fully
train and ordain western Lamas in the Vajrayana path. As my teacher,
I will always strive to follow his example and his teachings
in my life. May Chagdud Tulku achieve his heart's desire: To
assist all sentient beings on the path of enlightenment. - Lightman
Tibet: young Panchen Lama is well
source: By TED
ANTHONY Associated Press Writer
The young man named by the Dalai Lama to be the second-highest
figure in Tibetan Buddhism is happy and doing well in school,
a government official said Tuesday, seven years after Chinese
authorities detained the boy and...
Dalai Lama departs from Mongolia
source: By Baigalmaa Chiltem / Associated Press Writer
Mongolia -- The Dalai Lama
left Mongolia on Friday amid cheers from hundreds of Buddhist
faithful who showed up at the airport before dawn to see him
off after a trip condemned by China. Bundled in fur and warm
traditional Mongolian gowns, about 400 people stood in the cold
hoping ...
Dalai Lama visit excites Mongolians
source: By Audra
Ang Associated Press Writer
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- As he crossed hundreds of miles of frigid
steppe, Amarsaikhan, a Buddhist monk, kept one goal in mind:
greeting the Dalai Lama during the spiritual leader's visit to
this Asian land of vast grasslands and longtime Buddhist tradition.
"I have been preparing my mind to see him...
Tibet Nun said to be seriously ill
source: By Angus McDonald Associated Press Writer
DHARMSALA, India (AP)--A young Tibetan nun released on parole
last week by China is seriously ill after 10 years in prison,
an activist said Saturday. Ngawang Sangdrol, 25, who had been
imprisoned since her mid-teens for political activism, is bedridden
in her home in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and being...
Tibet hopeful of liberation in near
future, says Rimpoche
source: OutlookIndia.com
Tibetans are hopeful that they will get freedom from Chinese
rule as the world opinion favours that, Tibet's Prime Minister-in-exile
Samdong Rinpoche said here today. The entire world community
was supporting the cause of Tibet and the United States was committed
to raise the issue, irrespective of...
Dalai Lama inaugurates world's highest
stupa
source: OutlookIndia.com
DEHRA DUN - Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today inaugurated
the world's highest Buddhist stupa at a glittering ceremony here
attended by Defence Minister George Fernandes. The Dalai Lama
recited prayers as he entered the 185-ft stupa built in Mindrolling
Monestry to commemorate the "descent of...
China reaches out to Tibet critics
source: By Julie
Chao COX NEWS SERVICE
LHASA, Tibet - China has undertaken a charm offensive to win
over critics of its policies in Tibet, a perennially thorny issue
in its relations with the United States and other Western governments.
In recent months, China has released political prisoners and
invited groups of journalists to tour Tibet...
China releases Tibetan nun on parole
source: By TED
ANTHONY Associated Press Writer
A Tibetan nun imprisoned by Chinese authorities since her mid-teens
for her political activities was freed Thursday on good behavior
nine years early, a leading human rights activist said -- a release
that comes days before China's leader visits the United States.
Ngawang Sangdrol, a nun who is either 24 or 25...
Tibet wants meeting with China
source: By Angus
McDonald / Associated Press Writer
DHARMSALA, India -- Tibet's government-in-exile said Saturday
that two envoys sent to China were treated as equals by the government
there and expressed hope that Tibet could start negotiations
for...
Charles furore grows with Tibet missive
source: By Cathy
Newman, Chief Political Correspondent
The row over Prince Charles's intervention in politics escalated
on Wednesday night when it emerged that the heir to the throne
has written to the Foreign Office about China's occupation of
Tibet. Senior...
Dalai Lama envoys report home after
Tibet visit
source: By Jeremy
Page / Reuters
BEIJING - Two envoys from the Dalai Lama have returned to India
after a landmark visit to Tibet, the first delegation from its
exiled Buddhist spiritual leader since 1985, a spokesman for
the Dalai Lama...
Dalai Lama envoys visit Beijing
source: By Associated
Press
BEIJING -- Two envoys from the Dalai Lama are visiting Beijing
in the first formal exchange between the two sides in nine years,
a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan leader said Tuesday. Lodi
Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen arrived...
Dalai Lama Supporters Protest Visa
source: By Associated
Press
MOSCOW -- A few dozen people rallied in front of the Foreign
Ministry on Tuesday to protest the Russian government's refusal
to grant the Dalai Lama a visa. The group of Buddhists and other...
Is the Dalai Lama a Terrorist Now?
source: by Ted Westervelt / democraticunderground.com
The race is on, Mr. President.
You have arrived on the international stage for the first time,
and you need something in your worldwide "war on terrorism"
- help. How many will you allow to be lumped...
Ancient Statues Unearth in Cambodia
source: By Associated
Press
Cambodia -- Clerics clearing land adjacent to a temple in northern
Cambodia have discovered 31 tiny statues of Buddha, residents
said Tuesday. The ancient figures were made of gold, silver and
brass. The...
First
Tibetan Dharma Conference of America - Dalai Lama to speak
source: The Office of Tibet, New York
The Office of Tibet is pleased to announce that the First Tibetan
Dharma Conference of the Americas will take place in New York
City on Monday, September 22 and Tuesday, September 23, 2003...
Buddha
was born in Orissa, says study
source: India
Times
BHUBANESWAR: Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism who attained
enlightenment 2,500 years ago, was born not in Nepal but in Orissa,
researchers here claim. The Buddha, they say, was born at...
Tibetan
scholar enters exile in U.S.
source: By Ted Anthony Associated Press Writer
BEIJING -- Frail but overjoyed, an ailing Tibetan teacher believed
to be China's longest-held political prisoner was released nine
years early and flew to exile in the United States -- a move
that the activist
Gerd-Wolfgang Essen Tibetan Art Collection
June 16, 2002 - source: Essen Collection: Museum der Kulturen,
Basel
The collection of Tibetan
art assembled by Hamburg theological scholar and gallery-owner
Gerd-Wolfgang Essen comprises over 750 items and is one of the
most famous in the world. Thanks...
Can
science uphold the belief in rebirth?
source: Jupinderjit Singh / Tribune India
IS rebirth possible? Are there any scientific bases for believing
in rebirth? Since time immemorial, man has been struggling to
find a solution to this mystery but conclusive evidence has thus
far eluded him...
From
the Roof of the World to the Land of Enchantment: The Tibet-Pueblo
Connection
source: by Antonio
Lopez / swcp.com
In the incongruous atmosphere of the Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles,
an extraordinary encounter took place in 1979. During the Dalai
Lama's first visit to North America, he met with three Hopi elders...
Interview
with His Holiness The Dalai Lama - Broadcast: May 25, 2002
- Interviewer: Jennifer Byrne
Source:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Tibet.com
Exiled leader of Tibet, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, spoke to
Jennifer Byrne in Melbourne during his Australian tour. Byrne:
Thank you very much for joining us on Foreign Correspondent.
The Chinese as you've said... they are the guests who came with
guns... Now they come with money, is it even harder...
Good Medicine for This World
source: Pema Chödrön
in conversation with Alice Walker and Judy Lief. / Shambala Sun
Alice Walker: About four years ago I was having a very difficult
time. I had lost someone I loved deeply and nothing seemed to
help. Then a friend sent me a tape set by Pema Chödrön
called "Awakening Compassion." I stayed in the...
Monk impersonator hostage drama ends
From Tom Mintier
CNN Bangkok Bureau Chief
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- A man dressed as a Buddhist monk and
wielding an AK-47 assault rifle was arrested after he took 30
hostages at a security checkpoint on the grounds of Thailand's
parliament building in Bangkok.
China
arrests another spiritual master in eastern Tibet
source: Tibet.com / H.H. Dalai Lama
The Central Tibetan Administration deplore the Chinese government's
action to arrest Tenzin Delek Rinpoche of Lithang, Kham, and
four other people. "Venerable Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a hugely
popular figure, has been involved ...
Catastrophic
Threat From World's High Mountain Lakes, Warns UN
source: Daniel Nelson / OneWorld UK
Scores of mountain lakes may burst their banks in the next 10
years because of global warming (news - web sites), sending millions
of gallons of floodwaters swirling down valleys and endangering
tens of thousands of lives, scientists warned Tuesday....
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