China implemented "highly repressive policies" in 2002, using the global war on terror and a pivotal Communist Party Congress as excuses to violate human rights, a U.S.-based rights watchdog said Tuesday.
Promoting a message of independence through non-violence, three Indiana based Tibet support groups are coordinating a "March for Tibet's Independence" from Bloomington to Indianapolis.
A chance meeting will result in a series of weekend "chants" meetings. Last summer, Coralee Whitsett, who raises yaks and is promoting a Tibetan Conservancy for Nomadic Culture & Yak, was displaying her animals at a Tibetan festival.
As an indication of increasing Chinese interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Hong Kong University is organizing a lecture series entitled "Inside Tibetan Buddhism" that will last from February 15 until June 7, 2003.
In the wake of recent media reports about a proposed visit of Tibetan delegation to Tibet in March this year, speculations are rife in Dharamsala, the exile Tibetan headquarters since the brutal suppression of Tibet by the PLA troops.
Relations with Tibet took a healthy step forward recently with the Jan. 20 launch of the Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation, a nongovernmental agency charged with handling relations with the Tibetan government-in-exile.
For those who wonder if there is more to life, Sogyal Rinpoche may just have the answer. Anna King Murdoch reports. The one thing that is instantly noticeable about the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche is that he looks a really happy man.
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America. Over the last 15 years, the number of Buddhist centers in the United States has more than doubled
