With the Dalai Lama set to embark on a high-profile trip to the US this week, the Chinese official media on Monday urged Washington not to damage bilateral ties while asking the exiled Tibetan religious leader to shun his pro-independence
He is the leader of but one movement within a vast world religion that most Americans know little about. He presides over one of many peoples around the globe who seek freedom from an oppressive force.
A planned visit by the Dalai Lama to the United States could damage relations between Washington and Beijing, China's state-controlled media warned Monday, dismissing the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a "political plotter."
Hahn Kwang-ho’s Buddhist thangkas will be shown at the British Museum. It started with a sightseeing trip to Insa-dong. Then it grew into a hobby, visiting art dealers when time permitted.
In a remarkable amendment to the policies of the last decades, a government work report to the People's Congress of the Lhasa prefecture of April 2003, which was recently received by TIN, encourages migration from the rural areas of the prefecture to Lhasa city.
