London: China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Dalai Lama was in London to receive the $1.7 million Templeton prize for his work affirming the spiritual dimension of life. Speaking to reporters before the award ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, he said millions of...
01:00 AM, May 15, 2012
Beijing: Dismissing the Dalai Lama's allegations of China training women agents to kill him, Chinese state-run media on Monday accused him of playing an "insidious trick" and plotting "more separatist acts" ahead of this year's Communist Party meeting to elect new leadership. "If the central government wanted to eliminate the Dalai Lama, why has it waited for such a long time? Isn't it foolish to take action against Dalai at...
03:34 PM, May 14, 2012
London: Chinese agents have trained Tibetan women to poison the Dalai Lama while posing as a devotee, the Tibetan spiritual leader has said. The Nobel Laureate told Sunday Telegraph that he had received reports from inside Tibet warning about some Chinese agents training Tibetan women for a mission to poison him. "We received some sort of information from Tibet," he was quoted as saying. "Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans,...
11:16 AM, May 13, 2012
Toronto: The Tibetans are not seeking outright independence from China but "enough autonomy" for the survival of their culture, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said. "Tibetans are seeking enough autonomy for Tibet to allow its culture to survive, rather than outright independence," the Dalai Lama said at a news conference in Ottawa that followed his public talk attended by over 7000 people on Saturday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual...
08:50 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Tibet: Tibet's Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama has won the 2012 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for his work affirming the spiritual dimension of life, the US-based John Templeton Foundation said on Thursday. The spiritual leader "vigorously focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines might offer the world", the foundation said in a statement....
02:32 AM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: China on Thursday blamed the Dalai Lama for stoking extremist views and thanked India for taking "effective and concrete" steps to curb protests by Tibetans during President Hu Jintao's visit. Luo Zhaohui, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs, regretted the loss of innocent lives in and around Tibet but said Beijing opposed "pro-independence Tibetan activists". Answering a query about the death of a young Tibetan protester in...
09:52 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama spiritual won the 2012 Templeton Prize on Thursday. For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, 76, the 14th Dalai Lama - a lineage believed by followers to be the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist leader who epitomized compassion " has vigorously focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines...
05:44 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: On the first day of the BRICS Summit, China regretted that Tibetans have created trouble for India and also confirmed that the border dispute will be discussed by the Chinese President Hu Jintao with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. China was also appreciative of the effective concrete measures taken by the Indian government to avoid disturbances. Meanwhile, China also preached spirituality to the Dalai Lama. "Dalai Lama is...
05:04 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The trade ministers of BRICS countries are meeting in Delhi on Wednesday to discuss ways to strengthen economic ties. Chinese President Hu Jintao landed in New Delhi on Wednesday amidst high security even as Delhi Police took scores of Tibetans into preventive custody after a youth who immolated himself in protest against his Jintao's visit died in hospital. The Brazilian, Russian and South African leaders had arrived earlier....
04:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: China has blamed the self immolation attempt by a Tibetan protestor on Delhi on people close to the Dalai Lama. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said, "All of their deeds show that a group of Dalai followers are responsible for planning the self immolation. Maiming and destroying human life in order to reach the separatist political goal of Tibetan independence will never succeed." This came ahead of...
08:54 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Chinese website has accused Dalai Lama of policies that are Nazi-like. It also accused Lama of deaths of 30 Tibetans who set themselves on fire protesting against the Chinese government. The commentary on China Tibet Online, also carried on Saturday by the official Xinhua News Agency, is one of the strongest reactions from Beijing to a string of protests in ethnic Tibetan areas of China. About 30...
07:01 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Beijing, Describing the situation in Tibet as "grave", China has ordered authorities there to prepare themselves for "a war against secessionist sabotage" by the Dalai Lama amid reports that security forces shot dead two Tibetans protesters. Officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognise the "grave situation" in maintaining stability and to ready themselves for "a war against secessionist sabotage", Chen Quanguo, regional Communist Party chief of...
02:48 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Beijing: China on Saturday refuted Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticism over deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet, amid tense stand off in the region over a spate of suicides by Buddhist monks and anti-regime protests. The People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), denied HRW criticism that "police dominate criminal justice system, which relies disproportionately on defendants' confessions." "Weak courts and tight limits on the...
07:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Dharamsala: The Tibetan government-in-exile on Tuesday condemned the incident in which a Tibetan was allegedly killed and several others injured in clashes with police in China's southwest Sichuan province. "The Tibetan parliament is deeply aggrieved by the incident and condemn the Chinese authorities for resorting to such drastic act of force and repression," a spokesperson of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala said in a statement on Tuesday. "We call on...
04:55 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The fresh round of India-China Special Representative talks, which were postponed in November after the Chinese protested the Dalai Lama's scheduled participation in a programme in New Delhi, will now be held on January 16-17 in the capital. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs said the Indian delegation to the talks will be led by National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon while the Chinese...
12:16 PM, Jan 14, 2012
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