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BAREFOOT EXPERTS – Jamyang Norbu

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)

Democracy thwarted

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

FINDING THE LOST HORIZON: Update from the March to Tibet

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

KARMAPA AND THE CRANES – Jamyang Norbu

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,

THINKING OF BURMA – Jamyang Norbu

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

Tibet as talking point

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

FREE NEPAL

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

REMEMBERING THUPTEN NGODUP – Jamyang Norbu

On April 27th, 1998, the patriot Thupten Ngodup set himself on fire in Delhi, and died for the cause of Tibetan

Olympic torch ignites dialogue over Tibet

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

NEGOTIATION NIGHTMARE – Jamyang Norbu

This time the chief Tibetan negotiator, (Lodi Gyari,) might have landed on his head when Beijing pulled away the football since the statement he gave to the press in Hong Kong didn’t make sense

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