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The heavy earthquake in Shinghai province has apparently left many hundreds of Tibetans dead, including monks and nuns, and unknown numbers wounded. It seems that many monasteries were severely damaged.
The Chinese government advertised that Chinese troops 'immediately responded with help'.
Radio Free Asia reported:
Sources in Tibet have told the National Democratic Party of Tibet that the Chinese government’s rescue teams are concentrated in areas dwelled by elites and government officials, and the ordinary Tibetans are being neglected. “The Chinese rescue workers helped mainly at official Chinese buildings that had collapsed. Residents where predominantly Tibetans live did not receive immediate help”.
Estimates by Tibetans of the death toll are considerably higher then the official Chinese numbers.
His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa has asked practitioners to recite OM MANI PADME HUM mantras for the victims.
The International Campaign for Tibet collects donations for the Tibetans in trouble in the area.
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Please don't ask me to explain the logic of this, unless Nepal is already totally under Chinese control.
Phayul[Saturday, February 27, 2010 18:48]
Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav, Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, who is also the deputy prime minister, and Culture Minister Minendra Rijal have received invitations to attend the birth centenary celebrations of the monk at a Tibetan monastery in Kathmandu.
However, the officials have distanced themselves from the Tibetan monastery under pressure from China, IANS reported.
The Tibetan monastery is celebrating the birth centenary celebrations of Dilgo Khyentse. ... This year, Shechen monasteries worldwide are celebrating the birth centenary of the monk.
The Chinese embassy in Kathmandu reportedly conveyed its anger over the invitations to Nepal's foreign ministry, saying any acceptance would be regarded as a gross violation of Nepal's avowed commitment towards China.
So apparently, Nepalese officials are not allowed to visit a religious celebration in a Buddhist monastery in their own country - or is Nepal a Chinese province?
Just imagine that the USA would forbid a Canadese official to visit a church in Canada...
By the way, Nepalese border police also arrested 17 Tibetans who fled China... Why does this remind me of Eastern Germany before the wall fell in 1989?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Phayul [Friday, February 05, 2010 11:24]
The Chinese government has removed the University of Calgary from its list of accredited institutions — a move school officials say is connected to the Dalai Lama's visit last fall.
The university hosted the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate and awarded him an honorary degree when he visited the city in September last year.
In December, officials were made aware the Chinese government had removed the university from a list posted on the Ministry of Education's website.
Now, Chinese students of the university face an uncertain future...
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Phayul[Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:50]
"The president told China leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama, and he intends to do so," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters Tuesday
In the USA, people are used to freedom of speech, the Chinese gov't apparently still aren't aware of that concept...
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Times Online[Tuesday, February 02, 2010 21:37]
Strained ties between the US and China could deteriorate further if President Obama goes ahead with a meeting with the Dalai Lama, Beijing warned today.
How come the Chinese cannot see they make themselves look totally ridiculous this way? A country of over a billion people still afraid of a Buddhist monk?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
On January 22, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy released their annual report for 2009, and as expected, it's not exactly light reading.
The year 2009 was no different when it comes to violation of human rights of the Tibetan people inside Tibet by the Chinese authorities. For Tibetans inside Tibet it’s been yet another year of heightened security, repression, isolation and suppression. The year encapsulated with numbers of highly sensitive anniversaries in Chinese calendar was dealt with an iron fist. The year 2009 marked 50 years of exile for the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people.
... China outshined its notoriety as the world’s leading practitioner of death penalty, carrying out more executions than all the other nations in the world put together.
... there are hundreds of Tibetans who are still held without any charges...
OM MANI PADME HUM
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Phayul [Friday, January 22, 2010 10:40]
Dharamsala, January 22 - China has objected to a pledge by a Costa Rican presidential candidate to name a stadium in the San Jose after Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama saying it "is not in line with the common desires of the two countries", reported the Indo Asian News Service.
What's in a name?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
From Phayul [Tuesday, January 19, 2010 16:40]
Dharamsala, Jan 19: India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan said his office and other government departments, including computers in the Prime Minister's Office, were targeted by hackers believed to be from China, according to a report.
Do you recognize a pattern like I do?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
From Phayul [Tuesday, January 19, 2010]
Dharamsala, January 19: ‘The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom,’ a documentary film by Tibetan and Indian filmmaker couple has been declared 'audience documentary favorite' at the prestigious 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival which concluded in California yesterday.
This comes after the Chinese withdrew their movies from the festival in protest against a documentary about Tibet. Perhaps the western audience is not so easy to manipulate as the home-crowd in China?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
REUTERS/Andrew Biraj/File New Delhi, 14
Activists working for the Tibetan cause in Bangladesh are still being harassed and intimidated after Dhaka police, under pressure from Chinese officials, forcibly closed a Tibet photo exhibition in Dhaka in November last year. China’s imposition of its intolerant system and policies on Bangladesh is depriving the freedom of Bangladeshi citizens.
Does it ever end?
Love & clear light,
Rudy
