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BEIJING WELCOMES THE WORLD, SORT OF…

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As Beijing gears up for the world’s premiere sports and entertainment extravaganza, the Summer Olympic Games, lavish pageants
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BAREFOOT EXPERTS – Jamyang Norbu

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Among the many half-cocked (and often disastrous) schemes dreamed up during the Cultural Revolution, the institution of “barefoot doctors” (Chin:chijiao yisheng; Tib: amchi kangjema)
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Democracy thwarted

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The External Affairs Minister of the largest democracy in the world will arrive in Beijing on June 4 for a four-day visit to China on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre
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FINDING THE LOST HORIZON: Update from the March to Tibet

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He dipped his face in the river at Baanspatan, and joked that monks don't need to use soap because they have renounced vanity. A couple of hours later, Ven. Woeber was arrested
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KARMAPA AND THE CRANES – Jamyang Norbu

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After his dramatic escape from Tibet in December 1999, the young Gyalwa Karmapa became an immediate celebrity in the exile community – in a reverential Tibetan sort of way,
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THINKING OF BURMA – Jamyang Norbu

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It was somewhere in an article by George Orwell that I came across the phrase “the solipsism of the sick man”, i.e. the inability
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Tibet as talking point

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A Tibetan friend mischievously told me: "The Chinese are lucky, Buddha is more compassionate than Allah". This was not meant as judgment on a particular religion, but rather to illustrate
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FREE NEPAL

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Broken hands, bruised bodies and black eyes are all anticipated when Tibetans go to protest here in Nepal. Still these brave men, women and children continuously put their bodies and lives
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REMEMBERING THUPTEN NGODUP – Jamyang Norbu

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On April 27th, 1998, the patriot Thupten Ngodup set himself on fire in Delhi, and died for the cause of Tibetan
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Olympic torch ignites dialogue over Tibet

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Notwithstanding what you might have heard on the street, the Dalai Lama doesn't play hardball. The 72-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader, portrayed by the government of China as a stealthy
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