Boycotting French and German products is silly. If Americans really want to make a political statement at the mall, try avoiding Chinese goods. A lot of Americans are calling for a boycott of French and German products as
Zhu Rongji, who retired as China's premier on Tuesday, is usually a very frank man. A few years ago he admitted the Chinese system was flawed by two plagues: incorrect figures sent by regional leaders about the development in their respective
There aren't many places where you can rack up so much good karma in so little time. Walking the one-mile-plus clockwise loop around the Labrang Monastery complex in north-central China, you can spin 1,174 brightly painted Tibetan prayer wheels
Mount Kailas, a white pyramidal mountain in western Tibet, is a mystical locus of four religious groups of Asia: Buddhists, Jains, Hindus and Bonpos, who practice the shamanistic, pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet.
For centuries, Tibet has occupied a unique place in the Western imagination: romantic, mysterious, a remote mountain kingdom of incarnate lamas and nomadic herdsmen, of gold-roofed monasteries and hidden valleys.
A few days before China executed Lobsang Dhondup, South Africa and China signed an "Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Last year, the exiled Dalai Lama of Tibet, in his annual speech to commemorate Tibet Uprising Day on 10 March
In the fall of 1950 the Chinese People's Liberation Army began its invasion and conquest of the Tibet Plateau. Since that time, outside attention has quite properly focused on the suffering of the Tibetan people.
Nathan Gardner, front, and others of the Seattle Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Group, meditate at the Shambhala Center on Capitol Hill. On the surface, a Zen Buddhist looks and behaves quite differently from a Buddhist practicing in the Tibetan or Sri Lankan tradition
