A group of Indian Buddhist monks have threatened to immolate themselves at Bodh Gaya in Bihar if the Dalai Lama does not mediate with them on their demands and not to hold his Kalchakra prayer on Sunday.
Bodh Gaya is all set for the opening of the Buddhist Festival of Kalachakra that officially commences on January 12 under the spiritual guidance and presence of the Tibetan leader-in-exile the Dalai Lama.
Buddhist monks seated in the back of the audience gathered to listen to the teachings of the Dalai Lama, pay close attention to the prayers recited through loud speakers in an improvised tent in the town of Bodh Gaya, believed to be the place where Buddha attained enlightenment, during the Kalachakra Buddhist festival in the Indian eastern state of Bihar Thursday Jan. 9, 2003. The Kalachakra is the most important ritual of the Mahayana sect of traditional Buddhists.
Photo by Elizabeth Dalziel
Why is one of the great spiritual leaders of Tibet still imprisoned in India? He is a virtual prisoner in India. But the Karmapa, one of Tibet's spiritual leaders, is working to free his people. Katharine Saunders reports.
Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, the Tibetan Buddhist leader who was sentenced to death in a suspect trial last month in connection with an explosion, has begun a hunger strike in protest of his treatment in detention, which sources say has included torture.
At a press briefing this evening, the DM expressed his displeasure on the news item published by UNI headlined as "Attack on Karmapa aborted", which is completely untrue.
The death sentences passed on two respected Tibetans, Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup on Dec 3, 2002 by a court in western China’s Sichuan province shocked the Tibetans all over and the international community.
