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His Holiness tells National Nagarjuna Philosophy Seminar to promote Indian culture in universities By Kathryn Middel-Katzenmeyer: 15 January 2014

Senator Max Baucus, nominated as the next US ambassador to China. Photo: Media File

By Yeshe Choesang: 30 January 2014

Dharamshala: - Max Baucus, Nominee as US Envoy to Beijing calls for dialogue between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet or his representatives, without precondition. US senator Max Baucus, nominated as Washington’s next ambassador to China, said he would counsel the Chinese leadership to restart dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama without any preconditions to reduce the growing instability in Tibet. In his testimony before the senate foreign relations committee on 28 January 2014, he said “I will call on Chinese authorities to allow an independent civil society to play a role in resolving societal challenges; take steps to reduce tensions and promote long – term stability in Tibet and Xinjiang; and restart substantive talks with the Dalai Lama or his representatives, P- 7...... without precondition.”

His Holiness leaves for Guwahati and Shillong

Raipur, Chattisgarh, India: - On 14 January, the spiritual leader His Holiness the 114th Dalai Lama of Tibet attended the national seminar on the philosophy of Nagarjuna at the PanditRavishankarShukla University. In his opening remarks, he said “In universities of countries like Japan and China, students have better knowledge of the culture than the monks who keep worshiping. I would like to promote knowledge of Indian culture in the universities here,” His Holiness said. He continued, “Love and compassion are the only things that a human being should develop to become a good individual. The ultimate source of happiness is inner strength and selfconfidence…knowledge in the brain and experience in the heart should come together.” Speaking on the occasion, chief minister Raman Singh said, “Nagarjuna is remembered for the Ayurveda and as a Medicinal Buddha. We are lucky that Chhattisgarh has the remains of Nagarjuna.” Vice-chancellor of Central University for Tibetan studies NgawangSamten and vice-chancellor of Ravishankar Shukla University, SK Pandey, also spoke during the philosophy seminar. Tibetan spiritual leader also visited the ancient Buddhist site of Sirpur and meditated at the historic ‘Chaanda Devi’ caves where Ancient Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna is supposed to have meditated centuries ago. Located at the sprawling Singhadhruva terrain, Chaanda Devi caves is about 25 km away from Sirpur town in Mahasamund district, on the banks of the Mahanadi River. “This place is full of natural beauty. My guru Nagarjuna

His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the National Seminar on the Philosophy of Nagarjuna at Pt. Ravishankar Shulkla University in Raipur, Chattisgarh on January 14, 2014. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

meditated here and I felt his presence here today. It was very peaceful,” his Holiness told reporters in Sirpur. The 78-year-old Nobel Peace laureate climbed about 100

China detains Hundreds of Tibetans in Chamdho County, Eastern Tibet

stairs to enter the cave and meditated for about 20 minutes in remembrance of Nagarjuna - a Buddhist philosopher - whom His Holiness considers as his teacher, or Guru.

Wildfire Threatens Tibetan Town in Nyagchukha

His Holiness the Dalai Lama en route to Gaggal airport from his official residence in Mcleod Ganj, 30 January 2014. Photo: CTA/DIIR By Tibet Net: 30 January 2014

Dharamshala: - His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Dharamsala today for Guwahati and Shillong in India’s north-eastern states of Assam and Meghalaya respectively. His Holiness will be in Guwahati from 1 – 2 February and Shillong from 3 – 5 February. His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith conclave at Rabindra Bhawan organized by the LBS Publications House on 1 February and will deliver the first LBS Founders’ Commemorative Lecture on ‘A Human Approach to Peace and the Individual’ at Nehru Stadium on 2 February. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will also inaugurate the 5-Day Festival of Tibetan Art & Culture at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra in the afternoon of 2 February. In Shillong, His Holiness will address the 6th Convocation of the Martin Luther Christian University on 3 February. His Holiness will give a one-day teaching to the Buddhist community in Shillong including local Tibetans at the Polo Grounds on 4 February. His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith event at the State Central Library on the final day of his visit to Shillong.

Wildefire in Orongshi town, Nyagchukha County. Photo: TPI By Jake Thomas, 28 January 2014

Dharamshala: - A forest fire burning out of control near Ngagchukha County eastern Tibet appears set to spread to a monastery and the main town of a Tibetan-populated county, following the near-total destruction of the center of another Tibetan town in a neighboring P- 7...... province two weeks ago, sources say.

Tibetan held over His Holiness’ photos

China completes nomad project in Tibet By Jake Thomas: 30 January 2014.

Dharamshala, Januanry 26, 2014 – China has moved 2.3 million nomads in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) into fixed urban settlement homes, completing a highly controversial project it launched in 2006. A report by voanews on 24 January said that the government website, while reporting the completion of the TAR project, added that under Qinghai province’s five-year plan, 90 percent of the nomads living there would have been relocated similarly by the end of this year. In their tightly spaced urban settlements, China is encouraging the former nomadic herders to join livestock “cooperatives”, the report added, Jan 24, citing the official Tibet TV website. These cooperatives are said to be run by the government which would not allow Tibetans to use their land for grazing purposes. The report cited Chinese environmental activist and journalist Wang Yongchen as saying her group, Green Earth Volunteers, was going to raise concerns over the forced resettlement of Tibet’s nomads with government officials in Beijing, as well as express its belief that Tibetan nomads’ traditional lifestyle helps preserve the environment. Green Earth Volunteers have been researching environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau and had found that nomadic culture had sustained the area’s environment, not destroyed it as claimed by the Chinese government.

Chamdho: Villages and Monasteries are Covered in Five-Starred Red Flags: Photo” TPI/Woeser By Jake Thomas, 26 January 2014

Dharamshala: - Chinese authorities have cracked down on a grassroots Tibetan unity campaign in Chamdho county of eastern Tibet, arresting hundreds of local Tibetans found wearing special armbands or carrying photos of a senior religious figure backed by exiled spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, sources said. The crackdown further tightens controls over local Tibetans in Chamdho County (Chinese: Changdu prefecture, the Tibet Autonomous Region) where the Chinese authorities have launched what some sources call an intrusive campaign to identify and monitor the political views of villagers. The detentions were triggered when police stopped three Tibetan truck drivers transporting firewood at about 2:00 a.m. on January 2 in Chamdho’s Karma town, a local source told RFA this week. “The three were found to be wearing ‘unity’ armbands and in possession of photos of the Panchen Lama, and were detained,” Tsewang currently living in exile said, citing sources in the region.

Two days later, about 50 Chinese police officers in 13 vehicles arrived in Chamdho’s Dhamthok and Tsala villages, he added. “They searched the local residents and detained about 480 Tibetans who were wearing unity armbands and took them to the Karma town center, where they have been held in extremely harsh conditions.” No further information has been received on the condition of those being held, and it is unclear whether any have yet been released. Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser said that Tibetan Villages and Monasteries in Chamdho County of eastern Tibet are covered in Five-Starred Red Flags. Chinese authorities, who routinely suppress public assertions of Tibetan national or cultural identity, have also now banned the “unity” armband, a second Tibetan source further said. “But the Tibetans argue that expressions of ethnic unity are not a crime and are protected by China’s constitution,” source said, adding: “Authorities in Chamdho’s Pashoe county have forbidden monks at a local monastery from using WeChat, a popular application on mobile phones.”

Chinese security forces in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Photo: Medi File By Jane Cook, 29 January 2014

Dharamshala: - Chinese police have detained a young Tibetan man and tortured him in custody after finding photos and audio recordings of speeches by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his mobile phone, according to sources. Norgyay, a day laborer from Dingri county in the Tibet’s Shigatse was seized in the region’s capital Lhasa on January 14 during a random police check on the stored content of mobile phones carried by Tibetans, RFA reported. “Police found audio teachings and pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his mobile handset, and he was detained,” the source said, adding that “the audio was of teachings given recently by His Holiness in South India.” Norgyay, who had shared his photos and recording with others, then vanished until Jan. 22, when it was learned he was being held at a detention center near Lhasa’s Ramoche neighborhood, where he had been taken into custody, the source said. He was tortured in detention, another source said, also citing local sources. “Chinese police warned him to sever all connections with outside contacts.”


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