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17 June 2013
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Disagreeing with Mr. Jamyang Norbu La on Some Points
Our democracy is well and alive. We have reached a juncture in the development of democratic practices in governance where the person elected by the people holds the highest political authority after H.H. the Dalai Lama gracefully chose to retire from his pre-eminent position as the most beloved and revered temporal leader of the Tibetan people.
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14 June 2013
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Is Self-Immolation Anti-Buddhism?
China Tibet Online recently published an article in Tibetan, titled “Valuing Life and Upholding Law”, which was authored by a fictitious character. As I started reading the article, what jumped out at me was the absurd irony that those who claim to be atheists are now preaching to us on how self-immolation (as an act of protest) goes against the cardinal principles and values of Buddhism
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07 June 2013
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RANGZEN IN YOUR HEART? By Jamyang Norbu
During the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to the United States he met a group of Tibetan students in Madison, Wisconsin. One of them asked a question that, to put it mildly, made him very upset. The student stumbled over his words and was generally so awkward that it seemed to me he had been set-up by someone (probably older, definitely a politician) to pose this loaded question. But I could be wrong. The question concerned a member of the exile parliament, who the questioner said he would not name.
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05 June 2013
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Tashi Delek Comrade? The Sikyong Accepts Communist Rule in Tibet
 In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC on May 8, 2013, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay made three startling statements: a) democracy for Tibet was out and Communist Party rule was okay, b) genuine autonomy for Tibet could be for a limited duration, and c) China would have discretion over military deployment in Tibet. Specifically, the Sikyong stated:
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04 June 2013
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LHASA, ETERNAL CITY (2) By Jamyang Norbu
 The next phase of Communist China’s destruction of Lhasa came innocuously enough with Deng Xiaoping’s “Liberalization”, starting from the turn of the eighties. In the groundbreaking cartographic study published by the Amnye Machen Institute, Map and Index of Lhasa City by Christophe Besuchet, a more specific time period is provided in the introduction.
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03 June 2013
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HIV/AIDS in Tibetan Diaspora: Recognising & Addressing the Challenges By Lobsang Yeshi
Regardless of the clarion call made by Dr. Yangchen Dolkar a decade ago, then serving at one of the largest Tibetan settlements in South India, the general approach and perception of the Tibetan community towards the virus oscillate between callous indifference to frantic intensity. Ironically this paradoxical mix of approach persists despite gradual swell in HIV/AIDS infection instances and a decade long awareness campaigns spearheaded by the Department of Health (CTA), CHOICE and other NGOs, community leaders and individual volunteers.
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LHASA, ETERNAL CITY (1) By Jamyang Norbu
 Tsering Woeser-la’s recent clarion call ““Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction! Please, Save Lhasa!”, stirred me to undertake this modest history project. I thought it would be worthwhile to provide, as aide mémoire, brief overviews of the different periods in the destruction of the Holy City, which began when the
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30 May 2013
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WHY ARE OUR WRITERS ALWAYS FIRING AT THE WRONG TARGET???
 Jamyang Norbu la, I have been reading your articles since long time. And in my opinion most of your articles are like a 57mm RCL (World War II U.S. anti tank weapon which can be fired from shoulder) “POINTING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION”
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28 May 2013
18 May 2013
13 May 2013
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Must We love the Party…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).
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09 May 2013
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Did China Cover Up A Mining Disaster?
Nearly three weeks (at the time of this article first published) after the death of 83 workers in a landslide near a village in Tibet, which official Chinese media characterized as a natural disaster, suspicion is rising that it resulted from improper mining activity.
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07 May 2013
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THE STRANGE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT KHAMPAS By Jamyang Norbu
 When Andrug Gompo Tashi set up the Chushigangdruk (Four Rivers Six Ranges) in Lhoka in the summer of ‘58, and commenced resistance operations, Chinese garrisons and outpost in those areas were taken by surprise. Fearing that the local population might join or support Chushigangdruk,
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Congress needs to hold China to account on Tibet by Sikyong Lobsang Sangay
On April 24, 2013, two youths, Lobsang Dawa, 20, and Kunchok Woser, 23, lit themselves on fire near their monastery in eastern Tibet. The toll of Tibetans who have chosen to self-immolate has now reached 117, one of the highest in recent world history. The prime cause of this tragedy is the profound resentment of and resistance to China’s continued occupation and repression in Tibet.
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29 April 2013
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Tibet and the Himalayas: The Gangtok Conference By Thubten Samphel
 Ancient pilgrims and scholars who made the journey to Buddhist India summed up the fruit of their intense collective spiritual endeavour with these words: the waters of the Ganges have made the desert sands of Central Asia bloom. This saying disregards geography.
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27 April 2013
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To Be or Not Be: Should Tibetans in India Assert Indian Citizenship?
 During Hu Jintao’s visit to Delhi in March 2012, about 200 Tibetans found themselves summarily detained for peacefully expressing their views. This includes well-known Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue, who was arrested as he was participating in a seminar, supposedly because of his past
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24 April 2013
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“TIBET’S NEXT INCARNATION?” By Jamyang Norbu
 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 place. Morsi’s opposition will have none of it and claim that he wants to make himself “the new Pharaoh”.
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28 March 2013
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Will the Tibetan Parliament’s March 10 Statement Chill Free Speech?
In its March 10 statement this year, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile made a far-reaching assertion. The Parliament warned the Tibetan people not to “resort to speaking, writing articles, and propagating information through the various communication channels without any sense of responsibility.”
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Reasons He Came to Die in Exile
In a little restaurant near Kathmandu, a young Tibetan man approached a Western woman and told her that Tibet is a beautiful country and that he loved his country very much. What sounded like a casual conversation turned out to be a solemn statement.
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26 March 2013
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A MUSICAL CONFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM AND SUFIZM
On the just past warming up Saturday of April, the Diwan-i-Aam of Delhi's Taj Mahal hotel was witness to a unique event which is bound to go down in the spiritual history of Delhi as one of the most outstanding days of confluence of hearts, souls, music and spirituality.
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