Just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives, the Chinese embassy is embroiled in a political row amid claims it is trying to gag MPs wishing to speak out over the sensitive Tibetan issue.
A new tool of fighting repression and hunger, according to Students for a Free Tibet, is the repression of hunger. On Wednesday, SFT concluded a 14-day fast with a Day of Action in protest of the imprisonment of two Tibetan nuns.
A group of federal MPs is planning to protest against China's treatment of neighbouring Tibet when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Canberra next Friday.
The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, looks skyward as he adjusts his garment before a news conference at a Paris hotel, October 13, 2003. (REUTERS/John Schults)
Last month I attended a talk given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader in exile, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and in my opinion one of the finest (and wisest) human beings on the planet.
This last week I was privileged to travel to New York and assist with the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This “simple Tibetan monk” is the spiritual leader of the Buddhist faith; a Noble Prize winner; and, the exiled leader of the Tibetan people.
It is just after dawn in the Lhasa valley and tens of thousands of Tibetan pilgrims are streaming up a mountainside. Many have walked for days, even weeks to be here.
