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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates remember Nelson Mandela Vol. 03, Issue 101, Print Issue 25, 31 December 2013 Heavy security deployment in Capital Lhasa

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One day the sun will rise again over Tibet, says His Holiness By Jane Cook: 27 December 2013

Heavy Chinese security forces and police deployed in Lhasa City, Tibet, on 26 Dcember 2013. Photo: TPI

By Jane Cook: 26 December 2013

Dharamshala: - The Chinese authorities have stepped up security in Lhasa, the capital of tibet during an annual Buddhist festival on Thursday and Friday. Tibetans commemorate Je Tsogkhapa’s death anniversary on 24th and 25th day of the 10th lunar month. The festival, Butter Lamp Festival, dates back to the 15th century, when residents would light butter lamps in honor of nirvana or the enlightenment day of the Gelukpa school founder of Tibetan Buddhism - Je Tsongkhapa. P- 7......

Special prayer service for Tsultrim Gyatso

Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 26 December 2013: - The issue of Tibet is a struggle between the power of truth and the power of the gun, one day the sun will rise over Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said during his teaching in Bylakuppe, South India on 27 December 2013. “We’ve been in exile for nearly 60 years, and for more than 60 years we’ve faced oppression. Yet the Tibetan spirit is still very strong. We have attracted support from many Chinese writers and intellectuals, who have expressed themselves in 200 articles published in China and 800 published elsewhere,” the spiritual leader of Tibet said. The 78-year-old Nobel Peace laureate said that “they support our Middle Way Approach, which doesn’t seek to give defeat to one side and victory to the other. We’re seeking mutual benefit. The strength and integrity of the Tibetan spirit remains. One day the sun will rise again over Tibet.” His Holiness added: “Tibet has been fragmented since 9th century, but today what unites the country and its people is Buddhism; not a political unity. The scriptures can be reorganized according to Buddhist science, philosophy and religion. While the religious section is really only of interest to Buddhists, Buddhist science and philosophy can be of benefit to the whole world. His Holiness explained that a book of Buddhist science has been compiled that will be published in the new year.” “When 13th Dalai Lama sent some Tibetans to England to be educated, the project was not a success because the abbots were opposed. They said that Westerners were our enemies and yet look where everybody runs to now if they get the chance. We made mistakes,” he added. His Holiness the Dalai Lama began the second day of his Stages of the Path teachings. “The root of enlightenment is compassion,” he continued, “and different traditions emphasise compassion, but here we are talking about great compassion which is combined with insight into emptiness. Because we experience suffering of different degrees of intensity, we need to recognise its causes

His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the second day of his teachings at Sera Jey Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India on December 26, 2013. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL

and see if we can overcome them. This is the context in which we cultivate great compassion with the intention of liberating all sentient beings and relieving them of their suffering.” He advised that we develop understanding through study, reflection and meditation. Bodhisattvas with sharp faculties cultivate the practice of exchanging self and others, about which there is no greater text than Shantideva’s ‘Guide to the

Monk sets himself on fire in Tibet to protest China’s rule: Toll hits 124

Speaker Penpa Tsering with Mr Kevin Lindsay, Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Photo: CTA/DIIR

Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’. Tibetan Buddhists study logic and epistemology and are the only Buddhist tradition to do so. This is particularly true of Sakyas and Gelugpas. They rigorously study the writings of 17 Nalanda masters, which is how they preserve and promote the Nalanda tradition. This is what they have been doing in the Three Seats (Sera, Drepung and Ganden). P- 7......

Tibetans to see first Christmas in Vancouver

G21 from Tenzin Gang heading to Vancouver area at Toronto Pearson Airport being received by Project Tibet Society , Toronto Chapter. Photo: TPI

By Jake Thomas: 13 December 2013.

By Kathryn Middel - Katzenmeye: 16 December 2013

Hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the main temple here Monday, 27 December to offer prayers and solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated to protest against China’s repressive rule in Tibet. The official prayer service, was presided over by Kirti Rinpoche, the head of Kirti Monastery. Senior officials include Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay and P- 7......

Dharamshala: – The first displaced Tibetans to settle in British Columbia under Canada’s Tibetan resettlement program arrived in Vancouver and Victoria on Saturday, 14 December. At both airports, they were greeted by private sponsors and Tibet supporters. P- 7......

Tibet advocates deliver petition to W.H.O. Office

Seventh Tibetan Lawyers Training Begins

Tsultrim Gyatso setting himself ablaze and the last-words left carefully before his self-immolation protest. Photo: TPI

By Yeshe Choesang: 19 December 2013

Photo 1: Chief Justice Commissioner Ngawang Phelgyal Gyechen (C) with Justice Commissioner Tsering Dhondup (R) and Ngawang Choedak(L) at the inaugural of the 7th lawyers training,27 December 2013. Photo 2: Participants and resource persons (seated front) at the inaugural ceremony of the 10-day training. Photo: CTA/DIIR

By Jane Cook: 27 December 2013.

Dharamshala: - A ten-day Tibetan lawyers training organised by the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration began today at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarha, near Dharamshala. According to a CAT report, over 35 Tibetan teachers from branch schools of Tibetan Children’s Village, Sambhota Tibetan schools, Tibetan Homes Foundation as well as schools from Nepal are attending the training. P- 7......

Dharamshala: - Emerging reports coming out of Tibet say a Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in an apparent protest against Chinese repressive policies in Tibet on December 19, has passed away. “The latest report coming out of the north-eastern region of Tibet confirm that Tsultrim Gyatso, aged a r o u n d 4 1 s e t h i m s e l f i n A m c h o k t o w n s h i p , Ts o e C o u n t y, ( C h i n e s e : G a n n a n Ti b e t a n A u t o n o m o u s Prefectures, southwest of Gansu Province) Amdho region of eastern Tibet, on Thursday evening, (2.45pm local time), 19 December, 2013. “He died in his fiery protest. Local Tibetans took his body inside his room in the monastery soon after the incident. Local Tibetans, including over 400 monks were gathered at the monastery to offer traditional prayer services,” report to TPI news said, citing sources in the region. In a note he wrote the words: ‘Where do I express the “Sufferings” of the six million Tibetans?’

‘Can you see it? Can you hear me? China took away our every treasures,’when I think these “Sorrows,” my tears fall.’ In the note, he also called for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and for the release of 11th Panchen Lama. “For the end of sufferings of the six million Tibetan people, I set my body on fire as an offering of light.” The burning protest by Tseten brought to 124, the verified number of self-immolations since the wave of burnings began in 2009 in protest against Chinese repressive rule and of them 106 were reportedly passed-away from their severe burn injuries. The Tibetan self-immolators called for freedom for Tibetan people and the return of the spiritual leader of Tibet His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet. The Central Tibetan Administration based in India has consistently appealed to and discouraged Tibetans from drastic action, including self-immolation, as a form of protest. The blame as well as the solution for the selfimmolations lies with the Chinese government.

Tibet activist Jigme Ugen paying surprise visit to W.H.O., Washington, Monday, December 30, 2013. Photo: TPI By Choneyi Sangpo: 31 December 2013

Washington DC – Tibetan activists submitted a petition with over 1,600 signatures to the World Health Organization’s offices in Washington, DC, demanding the global health group approve a Tibetan refugee hospital’s selection as a recipient of a public health award. The Delek Hospital, a leading medical institution in India that treats thousands of TB patients, was to be awarded the $65,000 Kochon Prize by the Stop-TB Partnership for its outstanding work. The award only needed the approval of WHO as a formality. However, days before the award was to be presented to Dr. Tseten Sadutsang, Chinese diplomats had stormed into the offices of Stop-TB Partnership and objected to the award. Then for the first time since the founding of P- 7...... the award, the WHO refused to give its approval.


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