Foreign affairs is never entirely offstage in this city — so multicultural, so multilingual, so multinational, indeed so multi-everything, and that includes tasking and tsking. But we seem to be in for an unusually heavy dose of world issues this week.
A day after the 9/11 horrific terrorist attacks, the Dalai Lama had urged President George Bush to ponder whether a violent response was the “the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and people in the long run.”
Tibet's exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, was lionized in the United States but denied a visa to meet Buddhists in Russia. Those different responses reflect China's dilemma on whether to deal or not to deal with the charismatic leader.
The British mission to Lhasa in August 1936 was modest. Headed by Sir Basil Gould, it consisted of eight men (plus attendants). However, it brought with it a huge assortment of technical equipment, drawn by several hundred yaks, much of which was photographic.
The late Panchen Rinpoche's daughter, Rinzin Wangmo la (age-20) is currently on a ten-day visit to Switzerland. Her mother, Mrs. Dechen Wangmo (Li Jie) and a Tibetan Nima Tsewang are accompanying her.
The identity of the next Dalai Lama -- and by extension the legitimacy of Chinese rule over Tibet -- may depend on a 20-year-old Tibetan-Chinese woman. Nothing makes China more internationally unpopular than its occupation of Tibet
The star isn't usually the opening act at a concert, but things work differently with the Dalai Lama, who begins his daily spiritual practices at 3:30 a.m. Since he had to be in bed early
Duke of Gloucester, Duchess of York, Mrs. Mitterand, Peru's first lady, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Pierce Brosnan, Steven Seagal, Goldie Hawn, Harrison Ford, Anil Ambani, Sunil Dutt, Gulshan Grover, Vinod Khanna......can you read all this in one breathe? The answer is flat no.
