DHARAMSHALA, November 30: In a statement at the Tibet Intergroup Conference on Genuine Autonomy hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels, envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyaltsen categorically said that China lacks “political will” in resolving the Tibet issue through negotiations on the proposed Middle Way Approach.
“Since the start of this dialogue in 2002, the Chinese side has been adopting a position of no recognition, no reciprocity, no commitment, no concession and no compromise,” Envoy Gyaltsen said in his statement titled, “The Sino-Tibetan Dialogue: State of Play and Perpectives”.
Calling China’s outright rejection of the “Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People” presented during the 8th round of discussions in November 2008 as “unfortunate”, Envoy Gyaltsen remarked that the Chinese side went as far as stating that “even the title of your memorandum is unacceptable”.
“How many times do we need to say,” Envoy Gyaltsen quoted the Chinese side as saying “that the Dalai Lama has no right to speak about the situation in Tibet or in the name of the Tibetan people?”
Terming the Tibetan decision to seek genuine autonomy as “courageous”, Envoy Gyaltsen specified that the single agenda since direct contact with the Chinese leadership was re-established in 2002 had been to seek genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people “under a single self-governing organ” within the Constitution of the PRC.
“Right from the first round of discussions in 2002, we proposed that both sides initiate measures that help building trust and confidence in our relationship,” Envoy Gyaltsen said.
The Europe based Envoy of the Dalai Lama recollected some of the confidence building measures that the Tibetan side suggested to the PRC, including requests for a stop to the denunciation and lifting the ban on the photographs of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, proposal to expand contact by allowing visits between Tibetans living in exile and in Tibet, and to arrange exchange visits by scholars and experts.
“Moreover, right at the beginning of our contact we had written to President Jiang Zemin, explaining, that our mission was to bring about a face-to-face meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership,” Envoy Gyaltsen said.
“To our deep disappointment, none of our suggestions and proposals were taken up or accepted by the Chinese side.”
Reflecting on the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet and the “free reign with impunity” that the Chinese security and military authorities exercise over Tibet, Envoy Gyaltsen revealed that “as recently as two weeks ago” the Tibetan envoys had urged Beijing to meet at the earliest in order to explore ways to diffuse and calm down the situation in Tibet.
“We are, however, still waiting for a positive reply from Beijing,” Envoy Gyaltsen lamented.
Highlighting the important role that countries and independent bodies such as the EU play in today’s “heavily interdependent world”, Envoy Gyaltsen asserted that the issue of Tibet needed a “strong and unified message” by members of the international community.
“The Chinese leadership must be made to realise that the issue of Tibet cannot be suppressed and silenced unless it is properly addressed and resolved.”
Since direct contacts with the PRC were re-established in 2002, Special Envoy Gyari Lodi and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen have had nine formal rounds of discussion and one informal meeting with Chinese representatives.
The last round of meeting was held in January 2010 in Beijing
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
བསྔགས་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་འོས་བབ
པད་བཀོད་ཚེ་དབང་རྡོ་རྗེས།
ལོ་གྲངས་༦༠ རེ་གྲངས་ནང་ལས་ཞོར་སྶོབ་གྲྭ་མང་དག་ཅིག་བོད་མིའི་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཁག་ནང་གསར་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད། འོན་ཀྱང་ཕྱི་སུ་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་སྒོ་བརྒྱབ་དགོས་བྱུང་སྟེ ། ད་བར་གཞིས་ཆགས་ནང་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཐུབ་མེད་ལ། མེ་འོ་ཆོས་འཕེལ་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཏུ་གཞོན་སྐྱེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལས་ཞོར་སློབ་གྲ་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པ་དེ་ཆེསབསྔགས་བརྗོད་འོས་པ་ཞིག་རེད །
ལོ་གྲངས་༦༠ རེ་གྲངས་ནང་ལས་ཞོར་སྶོབ་གྲྭ་མང་དག་ཅིག་བོད་མིའི་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཁག་ནང་གསར་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད། འོན་ཀྱང་ཕྱི་སུ་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་སྒོ་བརྒྱབ་དགོས་བྱུང་སྟེ ། ད་བར་གཞིས་ཆགས་ནང་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཐུབ་མེད་ལ། མེ་འོ་ཆོས་འཕེལ་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཏུ་གཞོན་སྐྱེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལས་ཞོར་སློབ་གྲ་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པ་དེ་ཆེསབསྔགས་བརྗོད་འོས་པ་ཞིག་རེད །
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Jadrel Rinpoche dead is suspicious
DHARAMSHALA, November 24: Jadrel Jampa Trinley Rinpoche, the former Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo monastery and the leader of the search party for the 11th Panchen Lama is feared dead.
The Dharamshala based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has cited a “close associate” of Jadrel Rinpoche (also written as Chadrel Rinpoche) in Tibet as source of the report.
The CTA has quoted an audio message by the unnamed Tibetan official at the Bhoejong Nangten Thuntsok (Tibetan Buddhism Association) as saying that “Jadrel Rinpoche is dead”.
“Some say that Jadrel Rinpoche was poisoned to death,” the report further quoted the audio message as saying.
Jadrel Rinpoche was appointed head of the Search Party Committee to identify the XIth Panchen Lama by Beijing but was later arrested on May 17, 1995 after Chinese officials discovered that he had communicated his finding to the Dalai Lama and sought his advice.
Days before Jadrel Rinpoche’s arrest, on May 14, 1995, His Holiness the Dalai Lama had announced Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the XIth Panchen Lama.
Jadrel Rinpoche was sentenced on April 21, 1997 by the Intermediate Court of Shigatse Prefecture to six years’ imprisonment and three years’ deprivation of political rights on charges of “colluding with separatist forces abroad” during his search for the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama and “revealing state secrets”.
Although Jadrel Rinpoche’s six year prison term expired on May 16, 2001 he was held under house arrest in Shigatse in an extended form of detention.
Another member of the search party, Jampa Chungla, who was arrested along with Jadrel Rinpoche had passed away in November 2010.
In 1996, a Chinese court in Shigatse sentenced Jampa Chungla to five years in jail with forced deprivation of political rights on alleged charges of leaking state secrets. Following his prison term, Jampa Chungla was held under heightened restriction at a military base in Lhasa.
Jampa Chungla succumbed to his illness on November 13, 2010, after being repeatedly denied medical assistance during his long period of incarceration and house arrest.
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The Dharamshala based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has cited a “close associate” of Jadrel Rinpoche (also written as Chadrel Rinpoche) in Tibet as source of the report.
The CTA has quoted an audio message by the unnamed Tibetan official at the Bhoejong Nangten Thuntsok (Tibetan Buddhism Association) as saying that “Jadrel Rinpoche is dead”.
“Some say that Jadrel Rinpoche was poisoned to death,” the report further quoted the audio message as saying.
Jadrel Rinpoche was appointed head of the Search Party Committee to identify the XIth Panchen Lama by Beijing but was later arrested on May 17, 1995 after Chinese officials discovered that he had communicated his finding to the Dalai Lama and sought his advice.
Days before Jadrel Rinpoche’s arrest, on May 14, 1995, His Holiness the Dalai Lama had announced Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the XIth Panchen Lama.
Jadrel Rinpoche was sentenced on April 21, 1997 by the Intermediate Court of Shigatse Prefecture to six years’ imprisonment and three years’ deprivation of political rights on charges of “colluding with separatist forces abroad” during his search for the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama and “revealing state secrets”.
Although Jadrel Rinpoche’s six year prison term expired on May 16, 2001 he was held under house arrest in Shigatse in an extended form of detention.
Another member of the search party, Jampa Chungla, who was arrested along with Jadrel Rinpoche had passed away in November 2010.
In 1996, a Chinese court in Shigatse sentenced Jampa Chungla to five years in jail with forced deprivation of political rights on alleged charges of leaking state secrets. Following his prison term, Jampa Chungla was held under heightened restriction at a military base in Lhasa.
Jampa Chungla succumbed to his illness on November 13, 2010, after being repeatedly denied medical assistance during his long period of incarceration and house arrest.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
German Parliamentarians meet with Tibet’s new political leader in Berlin
BERLIN: Mr Hans-Ulrich Klose, the Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Parliament, expressed his great pleasure in welcoming the new political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay, at the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee conference room.
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay said 8 August 2011 was a historic occasion. His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended the Kalon Tripa’s inauguration ceremony in Dharamsala. In his address, His Holiness the Dalai Lama had said that when he was young, Tibet’s Regent Taktra Rinpoche handed over Tibet’s political authority to His Holiness and today he was handing over his political authority to the democratically elected leader, the young Lobsang Sangay.
Tibet’s new political leader Dr Lobsang Sangay said, the statement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama makes it clear the continuity of the same leadership that started in 1642 by the 5th Dalai Lama.
Speaking on the present situation in Tibet, Kalon Tripa said, “I have nothing but sad report. We have had 12 cases of self-immolations. I feel it is almost becoming just a number. But 12 individual human beings and Tibetans have self-immolated due to the very desperate situation in Tibet.
He expressed his appreciation to the German Foreign Ministry and the Human Rights Commissioner and the Parliament members for the recent statements on the tragic situation in Tibet.
Kalon Tripa said any statements of solidarity will be heard inside Tibet. It will send a message of hope in this very desperate situation. He said that he wants to send the message to Tibet that there is hope.
In response to a questions on the Middle Way Approach, he said, “We are seeking genuine autonomy in Tibet. That is the policy of my administration.”
About 15 members of Tibet Discussion Group and Foreign Affairs Committee members attended the briefing by Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay, which was simultaneously translated into German.
Dr Lobsang Sangay concluded his address by appealing to the international community to support the Tibetan cause.
Dr Sangay arrived in Berlin this morning from Zurich. His first meeting in the German Parliament was with Mr Harald Leibrecht MP, a senior member of the German Parliament and a prominent supporter of the Tibetan issue.
In the evening, Mrs Claudia Roth MP, the Chairwoman of the Green Party welcomed Kalon Tripa at their party head office in Berlin.
“I welcome you to the official meeting in our Party’s Headquarter in Berlin,” said Mrs Claudia Roth. “I feel honoured and emotionally touched that we meet. We hope for a green future for the Tibetan people.”
Dr Lobsang Sangay thanked the Green Party for their support for so many years to the Tibetan people.
The Green Party’s Foreign Affairs spokeswoman and the head of press office also attend the meeting along with other party senor officials.
The last programme of the day was meeting with the Tibetan community in Berlin. Members had travelled from Hamburg and other parts of Germany.
The meeting starting with the singing of the Tibetan national anthem and one minute silence in memory of the Tibetans in Tibet.
“Thank you for coming to meet me and expressing your confidence and support,” said Kalon Tripa in his opening remark to the community members.
He talked about the recent political changes in the Tibetan administration and the very grave situation in Tibet today.
Kalon Tripa called on the Tibetans to stand united and remember fellow Tibetans in Tibet and fulfill the wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Tibetan Student Wins Coveted Rhodes Scholarship
DHARAMSHALA: Ms Tenzin Seldon, a senior at Stanford University majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, has become the first Tibetan student to win the Rhodes Scholarship, which is widely considered the world's most prestigious scholarship.
Tenzin has been elected among thirty-two young American Rhodes scholars to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She plans to do the M.Sc. in refugee and forced migration studies and the M.Sc. in modern Chinese studies at Oxford.
Tenzin, who earlier this year was awarded the Truman Scholarship, after hearing the news attributed the honour to the “unconditional love, faith, and support” from her mentors, friends, and family members, Phayul.com reported.
"It serves as a reminder of how far Tibetans in the United States have progressed in just one generation. I will leverage this amazing opportunity to create a significant impact for the cause of Tibet and human rights around the globe," Tenzin said.
As a fellow at the Stanford School of Medicine's Center for Compassion, Tenzin hosted a dialogue with the Dalai Lama and Chinese students in 2010 and created a critical thinking program for Tibetan refugee children. She is involved in interfaith dialogue and is a student coordinator for President Obama’s Interfaith Challenge.
The Rhodes scholarship, established in 1902 to honour the will and bequest of Cecil J. Rhodes, provides full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Announcing the election of the 2102 Rhodes Scholars on 19 November, Mr Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said: "Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead."
The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, provides a stipend to cover necessary expenses while in residence in Oxford as well as during vacations, and transportation to and from England. Mr Gerson estimates that the total value of the Scholarship averages approximately US$50,000 per year, and up to as much as US$200,000 for Scholars who remain at Oxford for four years in certain departments.
Notable alumni of Rhodes Scholarship include Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin; former US president Bill Clinton; Montek Singh Ahluwalia, India's incumbent deputy planning commissioner, Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times reporter and columnist, and 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner among a galaxy of eminent world's politicians, academicians and sports personalities
Tenzin has been elected among thirty-two young American Rhodes scholars to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She plans to do the M.Sc. in refugee and forced migration studies and the M.Sc. in modern Chinese studies at Oxford.
Tenzin, who earlier this year was awarded the Truman Scholarship, after hearing the news attributed the honour to the “unconditional love, faith, and support” from her mentors, friends, and family members, Phayul.com reported.
"It serves as a reminder of how far Tibetans in the United States have progressed in just one generation. I will leverage this amazing opportunity to create a significant impact for the cause of Tibet and human rights around the globe," Tenzin said.
As a fellow at the Stanford School of Medicine's Center for Compassion, Tenzin hosted a dialogue with the Dalai Lama and Chinese students in 2010 and created a critical thinking program for Tibetan refugee children. She is involved in interfaith dialogue and is a student coordinator for President Obama’s Interfaith Challenge.
The Rhodes scholarship, established in 1902 to honour the will and bequest of Cecil J. Rhodes, provides full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Announcing the election of the 2102 Rhodes Scholars on 19 November, Mr Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said: "Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead."
The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, provides a stipend to cover necessary expenses while in residence in Oxford as well as during vacations, and transportation to and from England. Mr Gerson estimates that the total value of the Scholarship averages approximately US$50,000 per year, and up to as much as US$200,000 for Scholars who remain at Oxford for four years in certain departments.
Notable alumni of Rhodes Scholarship include Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin; former US president Bill Clinton; Montek Singh Ahluwalia, India's incumbent deputy planning commissioner, Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times reporter and columnist, and 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner among a galaxy of eminent world's politicians, academicians and sports personalities
གནའ་དེང་བོད་མིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པའི་ས་རྩོམ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་འཆར་སྣང་།།
ལི་ཕྲུག་ཉི་མ།
ས་བདག་མེས་དབོན་གོང་མའི་སྟོབས་ཤུཊ་ཀྱིས།།
ས་ལ་ཆོས་སྲིད་ནོར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་བསྐྲུན།།
ས་ལའི་སྨན་ལྗོངས་ཁ་བའི་འཇིཊ་རྟེན་ཞེས།།
ས་སྟེང་སྐྱེས་བུའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་བཞིན།།
ས་ཁྱོན་སུམ་གཉིས་འཁོར་ལོ་དབང་དུ་བསྒྱུར།།
ས་སྟེང་འབངས་མི་ཞི་བདེ་བྱམས་ཀྱིས་བསྐྱངས།།
ས་མཚམས་རྡོ་རིང་གནམ་གྱི་ཀ་བ་བཙུགས།།
ས་ལ་དཔེ་ཟླ་མེདཔའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྤེལ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་མའི་སེམས་ཁ་བདུད་ཀྱིས་དཀྲུཊ།།
ས་སྟོང་ཞིག་ན་ས་བདག་མགོ་བོ་ཕབས།།
ས་གནས་སེམས་པའི་སྐུ་སྲོག་ཁྲག་ལ་བསྒྱུར།།
ས་ལ་རྫོགས་རྒྱུ་མེད་པའི་ཆག་སྒོ་བཟོས།།
ས་མཐོ་གངས་ལྗོངས་ལོ་ངོ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་རིང་།།
ས་བདག་མེད་པའི་གཞན་གྱི་འཐབ་རར་གྱུར།།
ས་ལ་འདོད་རྔམ་ཆེ་བའི་ཤར་ནུབ་པའི།།
ས་འདི་ཁོ་བོའི་ཡིན་ཞེས་སྡིག་ར་བསྐུལ།།
ས་འཛིན་ཧོར་རྒྱལ་སེར་ཆེན་ཧན་སོགས་ཀྱིས།།
ས་པ྇྇྇ཎ་གོང་མ་གཙུག་གི་དབུས་ན་བཀུར།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་འདི་སྡེ་ཚན་གསུམ་བྱས་ནས།།
ས་སྐྱོང་འཕཌ་པའི་ཕྱག་གིས་ཐེངས་གཅིག་བཞེས།།
ས་ཁམས་གནས་ལུཊ་མི་ཤེས་ས་བདག་ཚོས།།
ས་རྡོའི་ཁྲི་ལ་ཆགས་ནས་ནང་འཁྲུག་རྩོམ།།
ས་ཕྱོགས་བྱང་གི་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཉི་མ་དེ།།
ས་འོག་མུན་པའི་གླིང་ན་སླར་ཡང་ནུབ།།
ས་བཅུ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་ལྔ་བ་པས།།
ས་འདིའི་ཆགས་འཇིཊ་ཐུཊ་ཀྱིས་མ་བཟོད་ནས།།
ས་མཐོ་བོད་མིའི་ཆབ་དཔལ་རིག་གསུམ་དེ།།
ས་འོག་ཀླུ་ཡི་དབང་དང་མཉམ་པར་བྱས།།
ས་ལ་སེམས་འཁུར་མེད་པའི་སྐུ་ངོ་ཚོས།།
ས་རྩོད་སྣང་མེད་ཐུཊ་སྤྲོའི་གར་ལ་གཡེང།།
ས་གནས་བཙན་འཕྲོག་འདོད་པའི་བཙན་རྒྱལ་གྱིས།།
ས་མཚམས་དཔང་རྟཊ་ནང་ནས་ནང་དུ་བཅུག།
ས་ཁམས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དཀྲུག་བའི་རྒྱ་དཔོན་གྱིས།།
ས་མཐའི་དམག་འཁྲུག་མདོ་ཁམས་སྨད་ནས་བརྩམས།།
ས་གནམ་མེ་ལྕེ་འབར་བའི་དུས་སྐབས་སུ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་སྐུ་ངོ་གཉིད་ཀྱི་ཞིང་ཁམས་གཉེར།།
ས་ལའི་སྨན་ལྗོངས་གཞན་གྱི་དབང་དུ་ཚུད།།
ས་ཐོབ་སེམས་པ་ས་གནས་གཞན་དུ་ཕེབས།།
ས་སྲུང་དམག་མིའི་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་ས་ལ་འཐིམས།།
ས་སྟེང་བོད་མིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་རེ་ཞིག་རྫོགས།།
ས་ལ་སེམས་འཁུར་ཆེ་བའི་ཕྱི་རབས་པའི།།
ས་འདིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་མོ་བློ་ཡིས་དཔྱད།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་མས་བཟོས་པའི་ཆག་སྒོ་དེ།།
ས་སྟེང་འདི་ན་ནག་ཉེས་ཆེན་པོ་མཐོང་།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གླང་དར་བཀྲོངས་བའི་ལྷ་རྡོར་དང་།།
ས་བདག་གྲི་གུམ་བཀྲོངས་བའི་ལོང་ངམ་གཉིས།།
ས་སྟེང་སྐད་གྲགས་ཁྱབ་པ་མཚུངས་ན་ཡང་།།
ས་ལ་ནག་ཉེས་འཇོག་མིན་ཁྱད་པར་ཆེ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གླང་དར་བདེ་འཇགས་ཆེད་དུ་བཀྲོངས།།
ས་བདག་གྲི་གུམ་གོ་གནས་ཆེད་དུ་བཀྲོངས།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་དམིཊ་ཡུལ་མི་འདྲ་པས།།
ས་ལ་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་འཕོས་ལ་ཁྱད་པ་ཆེ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་པའི་བོན་ཆོས་གཙུག་ན་བཀུར།།
ས་བདག་ཁྲི་རལ་ནང་ཆོས་མཆོག་དུ་འཛིན།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱིས།།
ས་ཁམས་འཁྲུག་པའི་གོ་ཆག་འདི་བྱུང་ངོ།།
ས་འདིའི་འབྱུང་རིམ་རྟོག་བཏགས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིག།
ས་གནམ་གོ་འབྱེད་ཡིན་ཞེས་མི་བུས་བཤད།།
ས་ན་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མེད་པའི་ལྷ་སྒྲུང་ཞིག།
ས་ཁོངས་གང་ནས་རྙེད་སོང་མི་བུས་སོམས།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་བདེན་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དེ།།
ས་སྟེང་རང་ཉིད་གྲཊ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་བཤད་བྱས།།
ས་ཁམས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མེད་པའི་གངས་ཕྲུག་ཚོས།།
ས་ན་རྔ་མ་གཡུགས་བཞིན་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲངས།།
ས་སྟེང་དབང་དུ་བསྡུས་པའི་དགེ་སློང་ཞིག།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་མགོན་དུ་ཕེབས་ཡོད་པས།།
ས་ན་དེ་ལས་ལྷག་པའི་འཇོན་པོ་ཞིག།
ས་ཡ་དྲུག་གི་ནང་ལ་སུ་ཡོད་ལགས།།
ས་བདག་མེས་དབོན་གོང་མའི་སྟོབས་ཤུཊ་ཀྱིས།།
ས་ལ་ཆོས་སྲིད་ནོར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་བསྐྲུན།།
ས་ལའི་སྨན་ལྗོངས་ཁ་བའི་འཇིཊ་རྟེན་ཞེས།།
ས་སྟེང་སྐྱེས་བུའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་བཞིན།།
ས་ཁྱོན་སུམ་གཉིས་འཁོར་ལོ་དབང་དུ་བསྒྱུར།།
ས་སྟེང་འབངས་མི་ཞི་བདེ་བྱམས་ཀྱིས་བསྐྱངས།།
ས་མཚམས་རྡོ་རིང་གནམ་གྱི་ཀ་བ་བཙུགས།།
ས་ལ་དཔེ་ཟླ་མེདཔའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྤེལ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་མའི་སེམས་ཁ་བདུད་ཀྱིས་དཀྲུཊ།།
ས་སྟོང་ཞིག་ན་ས་བདག་མགོ་བོ་ཕབས།།
ས་གནས་སེམས་པའི་སྐུ་སྲོག་ཁྲག་ལ་བསྒྱུར།།
ས་ལ་རྫོགས་རྒྱུ་མེད་པའི་ཆག་སྒོ་བཟོས།།
ས་མཐོ་གངས་ལྗོངས་ལོ་ངོ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་རིང་།།
ས་བདག་མེད་པའི་གཞན་གྱི་འཐབ་རར་གྱུར།།
ས་ལ་འདོད་རྔམ་ཆེ་བའི་ཤར་ནུབ་པའི།།
ས་འདི་ཁོ་བོའི་ཡིན་ཞེས་སྡིག་ར་བསྐུལ།།
ས་འཛིན་ཧོར་རྒྱལ་སེར་ཆེན་ཧན་སོགས་ཀྱིས།།
ས་པ྇྇྇ཎ་གོང་མ་གཙུག་གི་དབུས་ན་བཀུར།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་འདི་སྡེ་ཚན་གསུམ་བྱས་ནས།།
ས་སྐྱོང་འཕཌ་པའི་ཕྱག་གིས་ཐེངས་གཅིག་བཞེས།།
ས་ཁམས་གནས་ལུཊ་མི་ཤེས་ས་བདག་ཚོས།།
ས་རྡོའི་ཁྲི་ལ་ཆགས་ནས་ནང་འཁྲུག་རྩོམ།།
ས་ཕྱོགས་བྱང་གི་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཉི་མ་དེ།།
ས་འོག་མུན་པའི་གླིང་ན་སླར་ཡང་ནུབ།།
ས་བཅུ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་ལྔ་བ་པས།།
ས་འདིའི་ཆགས་འཇིཊ་ཐུཊ་ཀྱིས་མ་བཟོད་ནས།།
ས་མཐོ་བོད་མིའི་ཆབ་དཔལ་རིག་གསུམ་དེ།།
ས་འོག་ཀླུ་ཡི་དབང་དང་མཉམ་པར་བྱས།།
ས་ལ་སེམས་འཁུར་མེད་པའི་སྐུ་ངོ་ཚོས།།
ས་རྩོད་སྣང་མེད་ཐུཊ་སྤྲོའི་གར་ལ་གཡེང།།
ས་གནས་བཙན་འཕྲོག་འདོད་པའི་བཙན་རྒྱལ་གྱིས།།
ས་མཚམས་དཔང་རྟཊ་ནང་ནས་ནང་དུ་བཅུག།
ས་ཁམས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དཀྲུག་བའི་རྒྱ་དཔོན་གྱིས།།
ས་མཐའི་དམག་འཁྲུག་མདོ་ཁམས་སྨད་ནས་བརྩམས།།
ས་གནམ་མེ་ལྕེ་འབར་བའི་དུས་སྐབས་སུ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་སྐུ་ངོ་གཉིད་ཀྱི་ཞིང་ཁམས་གཉེར།།
ས་ལའི་སྨན་ལྗོངས་གཞན་གྱི་དབང་དུ་ཚུད།།
ས་ཐོབ་སེམས་པ་ས་གནས་གཞན་དུ་ཕེབས།།
ས་སྲུང་དམག་མིའི་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་ས་ལ་འཐིམས།།
ས་སྟེང་བོད་མིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་རེ་ཞིག་རྫོགས།།
ས་ལ་སེམས་འཁུར་ཆེ་བའི་ཕྱི་རབས་པའི།།
ས་འདིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་མོ་བློ་ཡིས་དཔྱད།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་མས་བཟོས་པའི་ཆག་སྒོ་དེ།།
ས་སྟེང་འདི་ན་ནག་ཉེས་ཆེན་པོ་མཐོང་།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གླང་དར་བཀྲོངས་བའི་ལྷ་རྡོར་དང་།།
ས་བདག་གྲི་གུམ་བཀྲོངས་བའི་ལོང་ངམ་གཉིས།།
ས་སྟེང་སྐད་གྲགས་ཁྱབ་པ་མཚུངས་ན་ཡང་།།
ས་ལ་ནག་ཉེས་འཇོག་མིན་ཁྱད་པར་ཆེ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གླང་དར་བདེ་འཇགས་ཆེད་དུ་བཀྲོངས།།
ས་བདག་གྲི་གུམ་གོ་གནས་ཆེད་དུ་བཀྲོངས།།
ས་སྐྱོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་དམིཊ་ཡུལ་མི་འདྲ་པས།།
ས་ལ་ཟུངས་ཁྲག་འཕོས་ལ་ཁྱད་པ་ཆེ།།
ས་སྐྱོང་དར་པའི་བོན་ཆོས་གཙུག་ན་བཀུར།།
ས་བདག་ཁྲི་རལ་ནང་ཆོས་མཆོག་དུ་འཛིན།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱིས།།
ས་ཁམས་འཁྲུག་པའི་གོ་ཆག་འདི་བྱུང་ངོ།།
ས་འདིའི་འབྱུང་རིམ་རྟོག་བཏགས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིག།
ས་གནམ་གོ་འབྱེད་ཡིན་ཞེས་མི་བུས་བཤད།།
ས་ན་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མེད་པའི་ལྷ་སྒྲུང་ཞིག།
ས་ཁོངས་གང་ནས་རྙེད་སོང་མི་བུས་སོམས།།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་བདེན་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དེ།།
ས་སྟེང་རང་ཉིད་གྲཊ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་བཤད་བྱས།།
ས་ཁམས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མེད་པའི་གངས་ཕྲུག་ཚོས།།
ས་ན་རྔ་མ་གཡུགས་བཞིན་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲངས།།
ས་སྟེང་དབང་དུ་བསྡུས་པའི་དགེ་སློང་ཞིག།
ས་ལའི་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་མགོན་དུ་ཕེབས་ཡོད་པས།།
ས་ན་དེ་ལས་ལྷག་པའི་འཇོན་པོ་ཞིག།
ས་ཡ་དྲུག་གི་ནང་ལ་སུ་ཡོད་ལགས།།
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Mao Tse Tung
Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
23. Investigation and Study
Everyone engaged in practical work must investigate conditions at the lower levels. Such investigation is especially necessary for those who know theory but do not know the actual conditions, for otherwise they will not be able to link theory with practice. Although my assertion, "No investigation no right to speak", has been ridiculed as "narrow empiricism", to this day I do not regret having made it; far from regretting it, I still insist that without investigation there cannot possibly be any right to speak. There are many people who "the moment they alight from the official carriage" make a hullabaloo, spout opinions, criticize this and condemn that; but, in fact, ten out of ten of them will meet with failure. For such views or criticisms, which are not based on thorough investigation, are nothing but ignorant twaddle. Countless times our Party suffered at the hands of these "imperial envoys", who rushed here, there and everywhere. Stalin rightly says "theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice". And he rightly adds that "practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory". Nobody should be labeled a "narrow empiricist" except the "practical man" who gropes in the dark and lacks perspective and foresight.
"Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 13. *
To take such an attitude is to seek truth from facts. "Facts" are all the things that exist objectively, "truth" means their internal relations, that is, the laws governing them, and "to seek," means to study. We should proceed from the actual conditions inside and outside the country, the province, county or district, and derive from them, as our guide to action, laws that are inherent in them and not imaginary, that is, we should find the internal relations of the events occurring around us. And in order to do that we must rely not on subjective imagination, not on momentary enthusiasm, not on lifeless books, but on facts that exist objectively; we must appropriate the material in detail and, guided by the general principles of Marxism-Leninism, draw correct conclusions from it.
"Reform Our Study" (May 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 22-23.
To behave like "a blindfolded man catching sparrows", or "a blind man groping for fish", to be crude and careless, to indulge in verbiage, to rest content with a smattering of knowledge - such is the extremely bad style of work that still exists among many comrades in our Party, a style utterly opposed to the fundamental spirit of Marxism-Leninism. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin have taught us that it is necessary to study conditions conscientiously and to proceed from objective reality and not from subjective wishes; however, many of our comrades act in direct violation of this truth.
Ibid. p. 18.
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and its past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. Conclusions invariably come after investigation, and not before. Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to "find a solution" or "evolve an idea" without making any investigation. It must be stressed that this cannot possibly lead to any effective solution or any good idea.
Oppose Book Worship (May 1930), 1st pocket ed., and p. 2.
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Ibid. p. 3.
[With the Marxist-Leninist attitude,] a person applies the theory and method of Marxism-Leninism to the systematic and thorough investigation and study of the environment. He does not work by enthusiasm alone but, as Stalin says, combines revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
"Reform Our Study" (May 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 22.
The only way to know conditions is to make social investigations, to investigate the conditions of each social class in real life. For those charged with directing work, the basic method for knowing conditions is to concentrate on a few cities and villages according to a plan and, using the fundamental viewpoint of Marxism, i.e., the method of class analysis, make a number of thorough investigations.
"Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 11. *
A fact-finding meeting need not be large; from three to five or seven or eight people are enough. Ample time must be allowed and an outline for the investigation must be prepared; furthermore, one must personally ask questions, take notes and have discussions with those at the meeting. Therefore one certainly cannot make an investigation, or do it well, without zeal, a determination to direct one's eyes downward and a thirst for knowledge, and without shedding the ugly mantle of pretentiousness and becoming a willing pupil.
Ibid. p. 12.
A commander's correct dispositions stem from his correct decisions, his correct decisions stem from his correct judgements, and his correct judgements stem from a thorough and necessary reconnaissance and from pondering on and piecing together the data of various kinds gathered through reconnaissance. He applies all possible and necessary methods of reconnaissance, and ponders on the information gathered about the enemy's situation, discarding the dross and selecting the essential, eliminating the false and retaining the true, proceeding from the one to the other and from the outside to the inside; then, he takes the conditions on his own side into account, and makes a study of both sides and their interrelations, thereby forming his judgements, making up his mind and working out his plans. Such is the complete process of knowing a situation that a military man goes through before he formulates a strategic plan, a campaign plan or a battle plan.
"Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Selected Works, Vol. I. p. 188.
Chapter 24: Correcting Mistaken Ideas
Table of Contents: Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
23. Investigation and Study
Everyone engaged in practical work must investigate conditions at the lower levels. Such investigation is especially necessary for those who know theory but do not know the actual conditions, for otherwise they will not be able to link theory with practice. Although my assertion, "No investigation no right to speak", has been ridiculed as "narrow empiricism", to this day I do not regret having made it; far from regretting it, I still insist that without investigation there cannot possibly be any right to speak. There are many people who "the moment they alight from the official carriage" make a hullabaloo, spout opinions, criticize this and condemn that; but, in fact, ten out of ten of them will meet with failure. For such views or criticisms, which are not based on thorough investigation, are nothing but ignorant twaddle. Countless times our Party suffered at the hands of these "imperial envoys", who rushed here, there and everywhere. Stalin rightly says "theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice". And he rightly adds that "practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory". Nobody should be labeled a "narrow empiricist" except the "practical man" who gropes in the dark and lacks perspective and foresight.
"Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 13. *
To take such an attitude is to seek truth from facts. "Facts" are all the things that exist objectively, "truth" means their internal relations, that is, the laws governing them, and "to seek," means to study. We should proceed from the actual conditions inside and outside the country, the province, county or district, and derive from them, as our guide to action, laws that are inherent in them and not imaginary, that is, we should find the internal relations of the events occurring around us. And in order to do that we must rely not on subjective imagination, not on momentary enthusiasm, not on lifeless books, but on facts that exist objectively; we must appropriate the material in detail and, guided by the general principles of Marxism-Leninism, draw correct conclusions from it.
"Reform Our Study" (May 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 22-23.
To behave like "a blindfolded man catching sparrows", or "a blind man groping for fish", to be crude and careless, to indulge in verbiage, to rest content with a smattering of knowledge - such is the extremely bad style of work that still exists among many comrades in our Party, a style utterly opposed to the fundamental spirit of Marxism-Leninism. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin have taught us that it is necessary to study conditions conscientiously and to proceed from objective reality and not from subjective wishes; however, many of our comrades act in direct violation of this truth.
Ibid. p. 18.
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and its past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. Conclusions invariably come after investigation, and not before. Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to "find a solution" or "evolve an idea" without making any investigation. It must be stressed that this cannot possibly lead to any effective solution or any good idea.
Oppose Book Worship (May 1930), 1st pocket ed., and p. 2.
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Ibid. p. 3.
[With the Marxist-Leninist attitude,] a person applies the theory and method of Marxism-Leninism to the systematic and thorough investigation and study of the environment. He does not work by enthusiasm alone but, as Stalin says, combines revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
"Reform Our Study" (May 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 22.
The only way to know conditions is to make social investigations, to investigate the conditions of each social class in real life. For those charged with directing work, the basic method for knowing conditions is to concentrate on a few cities and villages according to a plan and, using the fundamental viewpoint of Marxism, i.e., the method of class analysis, make a number of thorough investigations.
"Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 11. *
A fact-finding meeting need not be large; from three to five or seven or eight people are enough. Ample time must be allowed and an outline for the investigation must be prepared; furthermore, one must personally ask questions, take notes and have discussions with those at the meeting. Therefore one certainly cannot make an investigation, or do it well, without zeal, a determination to direct one's eyes downward and a thirst for knowledge, and without shedding the ugly mantle of pretentiousness and becoming a willing pupil.
Ibid. p. 12.
A commander's correct dispositions stem from his correct decisions, his correct decisions stem from his correct judgements, and his correct judgements stem from a thorough and necessary reconnaissance and from pondering on and piecing together the data of various kinds gathered through reconnaissance. He applies all possible and necessary methods of reconnaissance, and ponders on the information gathered about the enemy's situation, discarding the dross and selecting the essential, eliminating the false and retaining the true, proceeding from the one to the other and from the outside to the inside; then, he takes the conditions on his own side into account, and makes a study of both sides and their interrelations, thereby forming his judgements, making up his mind and working out his plans. Such is the complete process of knowing a situation that a military man goes through before he formulates a strategic plan, a campaign plan or a battle plan.
"Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Selected Works, Vol. I. p. 188.
Chapter 24: Correcting Mistaken Ideas
Table of Contents: Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
སློབ་ཁྲིད་གསལ་བསྒྲགས།
འདོན་སྤེལ། ༢༠༡༡/༡༡/༢༠
སེར་བྱེས་མཁས་སྙན་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༠ལོ་ནས་བཟུང་ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ལོ་རེའི་གུང་སེང་དང་སྟབས་བསྟུན། བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་མི་ཉམས་གོང་འཕེལ་ཆེད། སུམ་རྟགས་དག་གསུམ་གྱིས་གཙོས་རིག་གནས་འཆད་ཁྲིད་དང་། ནང་ཆོས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཀྱི་སློབ་ཚན་སློབ་ཁྲིད་དང་འབྲེལ། སློབ་ཚན་ཐོན་མཚམས་སུ་ཕྱག་ཁྱེར་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འབུལ་རྒྱུའི་ལས་གཞི་ཞིག་སྔར་ལོ་ནས་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་མུས་ལྟར། འདི་ལོ་ཡང་ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ཕྱི་ཟླ་༡ ཚེས་༢༠ནས་བཟུང་འཛིན་གྲྭ་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་སྐལ་བཟང་ཨེ་ལགས་མཆོག་ནས་འཛིན་གྲྭ་དྲུག་པ་ཡན་ཆད་ལ་སུམ་རྟགས་དག་གསུམ་དང་། དྲུག་པ་མན་ཆད་ལ་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཀྱིས་གཙོས་རང་བློ་དང་འཚམས་པའི་སློབ་ཚན་སློབ་ཁྲིད་དང་། རྒན་བྱམས་པ་ཆོས་གྲུབ་ལགས་ནས་ནང་ཆོས་དང་། རིགས་ལམ་བཅས་འཆད་ཁྲིད་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་།ལས་རིམ་གོ་སྒྲིག་དང་། སྤྱི་ཡོངས་བལྟ་རྟོགས་འགན་འཛིན་པ་རྒན་ཚེ་དབང་ལགས་ནས་གནང་གཏན་འཁེལ་བས། ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དབུས། ས་གནས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག གཞན་ཡང་རིག་གནས་ལ་དོན་བརྩོན་ཅན་གྱི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་སྐྱ་སེར་ཕོ་མོ་སུ་ཞིག་ནས་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་བྱེད་འདོད་ཡོད་ཚེ་ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ ཟླ་བ་ ༡ ཚེས་༡༨ ནང་ཚུན་སེར་བྱེས་ཕྱག་མཛོད་ཁང་དུ་ཐོ་འགོད་གནང་ཟིན་པ་དགོས་རྒྱུ་མ་ཟད། སློབ་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་སློབ་ཚན་ཡོད་སྐབས་མ་གཏོགས། འདི་ག་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནས་བདག་སྐྱོང་དང་འགན་ལེན་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་མིན་པ་བཅས་ཀྱི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སུ།
སེར་བྱེས་མཁས་སྙན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཕྱག་མཛོད་ཁང་ནས་༢༠༡༡ ཟླ་ ༡༡ ཚེས་༡༧ ལ།
སེར་བྱེས་མཁས་སྙན་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༠ལོ་ནས་བཟུང་ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ལོ་རེའི་གུང་སེང་དང་སྟབས་བསྟུན། བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་མི་ཉམས་གོང་འཕེལ་ཆེད། སུམ་རྟགས་དག་གསུམ་གྱིས་གཙོས་རིག་གནས་འཆད་ཁྲིད་དང་། ནང་ཆོས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཀྱི་སློབ་ཚན་སློབ་ཁྲིད་དང་འབྲེལ། སློབ་ཚན་ཐོན་མཚམས་སུ་ཕྱག་ཁྱེར་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འབུལ་རྒྱུའི་ལས་གཞི་ཞིག་སྔར་ལོ་ནས་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་མུས་ལྟར། འདི་ལོ་ཡང་ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ཕྱི་ཟླ་༡ ཚེས་༢༠ནས་བཟུང་འཛིན་གྲྭ་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་སྐལ་བཟང་ཨེ་ལགས་མཆོག་ནས་འཛིན་གྲྭ་དྲུག་པ་ཡན་ཆད་ལ་སུམ་རྟགས་དག་གསུམ་དང་། དྲུག་པ་མན་ཆད་ལ་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཀྱིས་གཙོས་རང་བློ་དང་འཚམས་པའི་སློབ་ཚན་སློབ་ཁྲིད་དང་། རྒན་བྱམས་པ་ཆོས་གྲུབ་ལགས་ནས་ནང་ཆོས་དང་། རིགས་ལམ་བཅས་འཆད་ཁྲིད་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་།ལས་རིམ་གོ་སྒྲིག་དང་། སྤྱི་ཡོངས་བལྟ་རྟོགས་འགན་འཛིན་པ་རྒན་ཚེ་དབང་ལགས་ནས་གནང་གཏན་འཁེལ་བས། ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དབུས། ས་གནས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག གཞན་ཡང་རིག་གནས་ལ་དོན་བརྩོན་ཅན་གྱི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་སྐྱ་སེར་ཕོ་མོ་སུ་ཞིག་ནས་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་བྱེད་འདོད་ཡོད་ཚེ་ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ ཟླ་བ་ ༡ ཚེས་༡༨ ནང་ཚུན་སེར་བྱེས་ཕྱག་མཛོད་ཁང་དུ་ཐོ་འགོད་གནང་ཟིན་པ་དགོས་རྒྱུ་མ་ཟད། སློབ་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་སློབ་ཚན་ཡོད་སྐབས་མ་གཏོགས། འདི་ག་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནས་བདག་སྐྱོང་དང་འགན་ལེན་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་མིན་པ་བཅས་ཀྱི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སུ།
སེར་བྱེས་མཁས་སྙན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཕྱག་མཛོད་ཁང་ནས་༢༠༡༡ ཟླ་ ༡༡ ཚེས་༡༧ ལ།
Topic: Tshangla Lo and Tshangla
It is very unfortunate that we are minority and so is our Tshangla Lo [language]and Tshangla [people]. Our own Tshangla people further divide it by calling themselves by diffrent names. We called ourselves Sharchokpa and Sharchokpa Lo in Bhutan, Pemakoi in Pemakoipa in Southwest Tibet and Monpa in Dirang and Kalaktang in Northeast India. The people who speak Tsangla is called Tshangla and the language they [we] speak is called Tshangla Lo. The Tshangla is known to be the descendent of Lha Tshangpajajin [Lord Brahma]. Therefore, instead of calling us in different nomenclature; we the Tshangla people should henceforth be universally known only and only by Tshangla.
by Pekoe Norbu Tsering Sat Jul 30 13:20:53 UTC 2011
It is not true. We Tshangla people of Pemakoe came originally from Eastern Bhutan. Our aim and objectives of migration to Pemakoe is that the Pemakoe is believed to be a holiest place of Buddhist religion. Most of the holiest place of the Buddhist is situated in Nyechen Pemakoe. Among them one of the holiest places is called Nyechen Dewakota which is presently in Singa Circle, Upper Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is believed that it is the Gate Way to Heaven. On discovery of this holiest place [ter jeyden gai], it was isolated place or no man land. So, the discoverer decided to settle some people here in Nyechen Dewakota. So, he went to Bhutan and started hypnotize the youth of that area by singing a song which goes something like this - Nyechen Pemakoe ga lai ma awa zale nyongcha, Fai bangnyi lai ale cha, Solo sing ga rengan khem nyi solo futpe ga cha....On hearing this song, the youth fully hypnotized and decided to migrate to the Holiest place of Nyechen Pemakoe. It is known as Nyechen Dewakota in Mankota village in Singa circle. You may also find this place mentioned in the Nye Yigi which is readily available with the Lamas, Rinpoches etc. It is also said that the Great Gorge and Great Curve of Tsangpo River played very important role during migration. It is said that on reaching the Pemakoe, two groups decided to settle in two different places. One group decided to settle in upstream of the Tsangpo River and another group decided to settle down in the downstream of the river Tsangpo. But because of the Great Curve of the Tsangpo River, later they found settle vice versa as they decided earlier. That is, the group who decided to settle up stream was settled in the downstream and the group who decided to settle down in the downstream was later found settled in upstream of the river Tsangpo. So, I think, there is some communication gap regarding the historical background of our Tsangla people in southwest Tibet. By the way I am also hailing from this place. So, let’s take a oath and make our own identity rather division on the basis of region etc. After all we are Tsangla people and this word Tshangla only can unite us in this world.
by pekoenorbutsering.blogspot Sun Jul 31 08:30:59 UTC 2011
by Pekoe Norbu Tsering Sat Jul 30 13:20:53 UTC 2011
It is not true. We Tshangla people of Pemakoe came originally from Eastern Bhutan. Our aim and objectives of migration to Pemakoe is that the Pemakoe is believed to be a holiest place of Buddhist religion. Most of the holiest place of the Buddhist is situated in Nyechen Pemakoe. Among them one of the holiest places is called Nyechen Dewakota which is presently in Singa Circle, Upper Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is believed that it is the Gate Way to Heaven. On discovery of this holiest place [ter jeyden gai], it was isolated place or no man land. So, the discoverer decided to settle some people here in Nyechen Dewakota. So, he went to Bhutan and started hypnotize the youth of that area by singing a song which goes something like this - Nyechen Pemakoe ga lai ma awa zale nyongcha, Fai bangnyi lai ale cha, Solo sing ga rengan khem nyi solo futpe ga cha....On hearing this song, the youth fully hypnotized and decided to migrate to the Holiest place of Nyechen Pemakoe. It is known as Nyechen Dewakota in Mankota village in Singa circle. You may also find this place mentioned in the Nye Yigi which is readily available with the Lamas, Rinpoches etc. It is also said that the Great Gorge and Great Curve of Tsangpo River played very important role during migration. It is said that on reaching the Pemakoe, two groups decided to settle in two different places. One group decided to settle in upstream of the Tsangpo River and another group decided to settle down in the downstream of the river Tsangpo. But because of the Great Curve of the Tsangpo River, later they found settle vice versa as they decided earlier. That is, the group who decided to settle up stream was settled in the downstream and the group who decided to settle down in the downstream was later found settled in upstream of the river Tsangpo. So, I think, there is some communication gap regarding the historical background of our Tsangla people in southwest Tibet. By the way I am also hailing from this place. So, let’s take a oath and make our own identity rather division on the basis of region etc. After all we are Tsangla people and this word Tshangla only can unite us in this world.
by pekoenorbutsering.blogspot Sun Jul 31 08:30:59 UTC 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Tibetans Participate in Int'l Organic Expo in Bangalore
Tibetans at the BioFach International Organic Trade Fair in Bangalore
Bangalore: BioFach India together with India Organic was organised for the third time from 10-12 November 2011. International players in the organic sector gather for the first time in Bangalore, the green Garden City and world renowned IT metropolis in the south of India.
Soon after the conclusion of the eighth Tibetan Agriculture Meeting held for three days at Organic Research & Training Centre, Bylakuppe, which was organised by the Central Tibetan Administration's home department, 31 Tibetan participants, representing eight Tibetan agriculture based settlements, including settlement officers, AEO's and progressive farmers from Mundgod and Mr Chhimey Rinzin, head of agriculture division (DoH) and Mr Dawa Tsultrim among others, attended this event in BioFach India 2011 – International trade fair.
Under joint initiatives by Department of Home and Federation of Tibetan Cooperatives in India, exhibition on organic produce by Tibetan organic farmers in India went off successfully. Over 120 producers, including Germany pavilions, Austria and Netherlands pavilions attended the event, showed the visitors what the local and international organic market has to offer in 2011. All those that participated in the event had a rewarding experience.
Biofach trade fairs are regarded as premier events the world over, for promotion of organic products and services. Biofach India, in its 3rd edition, is being held at Bangalore, and bringing in focus on the India organic market. The agriculture in India which is at crossroads is timely poised for the advent of organic products and services. The rapid rise in organic cultivators and consumers in India is a manifestation of the change for the better they are seeking. Considering India as the potential consumers, it provides the perfect platform for promoting such an event.
The three-day organic trade fair and seminar programme, organised by ICCOA (International Competence Center for Organic Agriculture), will have a total of ten sessions in two seminar hall covering various areas viz Policy for organic Sector Development, Govt Support and Private Entrepreneurship, Organic farming technologies research Development and case study presentations, Marketing and its linkages for farmers, Certification, Post harvest techniques and Supply Chain Management. More than 50 renowned International and national speakers like scientist, professor, researcher, entrepreneur have spoken in the session.
Kalon Gyari Dolma (C) with Secretary of Home, Ngodup Dorjee along with
the participants of the 8th Tibetan Agricultural settlement meeting at Bylakuppe
The trade fair was inaugurated by Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda along with Agriculture Minister Umesh V Katti and Horticulture Minister S A Ravindranath.
Speaking on the occasion, the CM said “Organic farming is the only alternative to maintaining sustainability. We have to take steps to prevent further damage to the ecosystem and increase our productivity.”
“The government has allotted Rs 200 crore for organic farming sector. Karnataka today has about 76,000 hectares of certified organic farming land,” he added. “We are showcasing our new products. This is a very good venue to showcase our products to farmers,” said Balasubramanian,CEO, Sresta Natural Bio products. The first day saw many farmers thronging the venue to gather information about organic farming. Many visitors wanted to find out details about some specific products.
Both state institutions and private initiatives in India are endeavoring to meet the rising worldwide demand for organic raw materials at B2B level and at the same time satisfy the consumers’ growing desire for organic food in the local shops. The government has ambitious plans. For example, the growing area is to be expanded to 5million ha in the coming years, and 2million ha are already envisaged by 2012. Experts from the Indian Morarka Foundation estimate the current domestic market at a respectable 543 million US dollars.
All the participants from Tibetan are inspired and motivated from this International organic Trade fair and seminar. More importantly, from over 165 stall booths with organic exhibitors from 22 Indian States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and from other parts of the world, our Tibetan organic stalls were selected as the second best and conferred mementos price by Karnataka Agriculture Minister during valedictory function and 1st position in individual stall booth was given to Morarka, a private organic company dealing with organic foods, vegetables and textile. The reason for getting this award to Tibetan organic stall booths is due to the ambience and interior décor which created a feeling of Tibetaness to the juries from BioFach India Organic. The recognition received is a great boost to our morale. We are sure that with such impetus, Tibetan organic movement and adoption of organic farming policy will go a long way.
The growing number of states in India declaring their intention to go 100% organic and earmarking huge amount of money for organic bears testimony to the fact that organic is receiving due recognition and importance in India. (We also came to know that 10 Indian States namely, Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, kerala, Maharastra, Andra Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh have drafted and defined organic agriculture policies, first four states in the list have also declared their intention to go 100% organic. Government of Sikkim has already earmarked the year 2015 as the year for achieving conversion of more than 50000 ha area to organic , accounting for nearly two third of the total cultivable area of the State. Government of Karnataka has also launched an Organic Farming Mission to address the requirement of organic farming promotion under Mission mode. Recently Government of Bihar has earmarked Rs. 255 crore and launched specific strategies for the development of organic agriculture sector in Bihar over a period of four year.)
Tibetan agriculture settlement based at Karnataka State can avail benefit from Karnataka State Government Organic Farming Mission scheme, provided CTA and respective settlements jointly approach the State Government.
Bangalore: BioFach India together with India Organic was organised for the third time from 10-12 November 2011. International players in the organic sector gather for the first time in Bangalore, the green Garden City and world renowned IT metropolis in the south of India.
Soon after the conclusion of the eighth Tibetan Agriculture Meeting held for three days at Organic Research & Training Centre, Bylakuppe, which was organised by the Central Tibetan Administration's home department, 31 Tibetan participants, representing eight Tibetan agriculture based settlements, including settlement officers, AEO's and progressive farmers from Mundgod and Mr Chhimey Rinzin, head of agriculture division (DoH) and Mr Dawa Tsultrim among others, attended this event in BioFach India 2011 – International trade fair.
Under joint initiatives by Department of Home and Federation of Tibetan Cooperatives in India, exhibition on organic produce by Tibetan organic farmers in India went off successfully. Over 120 producers, including Germany pavilions, Austria and Netherlands pavilions attended the event, showed the visitors what the local and international organic market has to offer in 2011. All those that participated in the event had a rewarding experience.
Biofach trade fairs are regarded as premier events the world over, for promotion of organic products and services. Biofach India, in its 3rd edition, is being held at Bangalore, and bringing in focus on the India organic market. The agriculture in India which is at crossroads is timely poised for the advent of organic products and services. The rapid rise in organic cultivators and consumers in India is a manifestation of the change for the better they are seeking. Considering India as the potential consumers, it provides the perfect platform for promoting such an event.
The three-day organic trade fair and seminar programme, organised by ICCOA (International Competence Center for Organic Agriculture), will have a total of ten sessions in two seminar hall covering various areas viz Policy for organic Sector Development, Govt Support and Private Entrepreneurship, Organic farming technologies research Development and case study presentations, Marketing and its linkages for farmers, Certification, Post harvest techniques and Supply Chain Management. More than 50 renowned International and national speakers like scientist, professor, researcher, entrepreneur have spoken in the session.
Kalon Gyari Dolma (C) with Secretary of Home, Ngodup Dorjee along with
the participants of the 8th Tibetan Agricultural settlement meeting at Bylakuppe
The trade fair was inaugurated by Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda along with Agriculture Minister Umesh V Katti and Horticulture Minister S A Ravindranath.
Speaking on the occasion, the CM said “Organic farming is the only alternative to maintaining sustainability. We have to take steps to prevent further damage to the ecosystem and increase our productivity.”
“The government has allotted Rs 200 crore for organic farming sector. Karnataka today has about 76,000 hectares of certified organic farming land,” he added. “We are showcasing our new products. This is a very good venue to showcase our products to farmers,” said Balasubramanian,CEO, Sresta Natural Bio products. The first day saw many farmers thronging the venue to gather information about organic farming. Many visitors wanted to find out details about some specific products.
Both state institutions and private initiatives in India are endeavoring to meet the rising worldwide demand for organic raw materials at B2B level and at the same time satisfy the consumers’ growing desire for organic food in the local shops. The government has ambitious plans. For example, the growing area is to be expanded to 5million ha in the coming years, and 2million ha are already envisaged by 2012. Experts from the Indian Morarka Foundation estimate the current domestic market at a respectable 543 million US dollars.
All the participants from Tibetan are inspired and motivated from this International organic Trade fair and seminar. More importantly, from over 165 stall booths with organic exhibitors from 22 Indian States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and from other parts of the world, our Tibetan organic stalls were selected as the second best and conferred mementos price by Karnataka Agriculture Minister during valedictory function and 1st position in individual stall booth was given to Morarka, a private organic company dealing with organic foods, vegetables and textile. The reason for getting this award to Tibetan organic stall booths is due to the ambience and interior décor which created a feeling of Tibetaness to the juries from BioFach India Organic. The recognition received is a great boost to our morale. We are sure that with such impetus, Tibetan organic movement and adoption of organic farming policy will go a long way.
The growing number of states in India declaring their intention to go 100% organic and earmarking huge amount of money for organic bears testimony to the fact that organic is receiving due recognition and importance in India. (We also came to know that 10 Indian States namely, Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, kerala, Maharastra, Andra Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh have drafted and defined organic agriculture policies, first four states in the list have also declared their intention to go 100% organic. Government of Sikkim has already earmarked the year 2015 as the year for achieving conversion of more than 50000 ha area to organic , accounting for nearly two third of the total cultivable area of the State. Government of Karnataka has also launched an Organic Farming Mission to address the requirement of organic farming promotion under Mission mode. Recently Government of Bihar has earmarked Rs. 255 crore and launched specific strategies for the development of organic agriculture sector in Bihar over a period of four year.)
Tibetan agriculture settlement based at Karnataka State can avail benefit from Karnataka State Government Organic Farming Mission scheme, provided CTA and respective settlements jointly approach the State Government.
བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་འདུ།
བོད་ཀྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་དང་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཉམས་ཞིབ་ཁང་གི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག ཆོལ་ཁ་རེ་ནས་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྔ་རེ་དང་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་རེ་ནས་སྤྱི་འཐུས་རེ་བཅས། ཁྱོན་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཉི་ཤུ་ཙམ་ལྷན་འཛོམས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གར་ཧ་རི་ཡ་ན་མངའ་སྡེ་གཞུང་གི་མགྲོན་ཁང་ར་ཇི་ཧང་ནང་། འབྱུང་འགྱུར་བོད་དོན་གྱི་ལས་དོན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱོགས་སྐོར་ལ་བགྲོ་གླེང་འཚོགས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ཉིན་ས་གནས་ནས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཀྱིས་གནས་ཚུལ་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་བྱས་པ་ལྟར་ན། ཉིན་གྲངས་གསུམ་རིང་གི་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གོང་ཚེས་ཉིན་དབུ་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཉིན་དང་པོར་༢༠༠༩ ལོའི་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་སྐབས་སུ་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པའི་ལས་དོན་འཆར་འགོད་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་སྦྲགས་ནས། བོད་ནང་དུ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཕྱོགས་དང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་སྟེང་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འཚོལ་ཐབས། རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡེ་ཁག་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་མི་མང་ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཐད་ལ་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ཆ་བགོས་ཀྱིས་བཀའ་གྲོས་སོགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཉིན་རྒྱབ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་བ་སྐུ་ཞབས་པི་ཌི་ཨི་མཆོག་གིས། བོད་མི་ཚོས་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པར་འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་དང་། འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་པའི་སྐབས་གནད་དོན་ཁག་རྣམས་ལག་ལེན་བསྟར་ཕྱོགས་ཐད་ལ་བཀའ་མོལ་ལྷུག་པོ་གནང་ནས་དྲི་བ་ཁག་ལའང་ལན་འདེབས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
དེ་བཞིན་ཉིན་གཉིས་པའི་སྔ་དྲོར་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་ཞབས་ས་ཝ་རན་སི་མཆོག་གིས། རྒྱ་དཀར་ནག་གཉིས་དབར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་འཛུགས་བཞིན་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་འདིའི་འོག་ནས། རྒྱ་གར་གྱིས་བོད་ཐོག་འཛིན་པའི་སྲིད་བྱུས་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཕྱི་དྲོར་མཁས་དབང་སུ་བྷ་ཤ་ཀཱ་ཤབ་མཆོག་གིས། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་ཆབ་སྲིད་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་འགན་དབང་མི་མང་གིས་འདེམས་ཐོན་བྱུང་བའི་ལས་ཀྱི་སྣེ་མོ་བ་ཚོར་གསོལ་བསྩལ་གནང་རྗེས་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ནས་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་བསྐྱར་བཅོས་གནང་བ། དེར་འབྲེལ་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་དང་བརྟན་ལྷིང་གནས་ཐབས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་དང་དོགས་འདྲི་གནང་རྒྱུ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ཁག་གི་གྲོས་དོན་དང་བགྲོ་གླེང་སོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་བསྡུས་ཏེ། དུས་ནམ་ཞིག་ཚུལ་ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་གང་གིས་ལག་བསྟར་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་འདུག
ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༢༢ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་དབུས་གྲོས་ཚོགས་དང་དབུས་བོད་སློབ་འཛིན་ཚོགས་ལས་ཁུངས་སུ་གཟིགས་སྐོར་ཕེབས་རྒྱུ་དང་། རྒྱ་གར་གྲོས་ཚོགས་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་མི་ལྷན་དུ་འདུ་འཛོམས་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ཚེས་༢༣ ཉིན་ལྡི་ལི་ཁུལ་དུ་གནས་སྡོད་བྱེད་མཁན་བོད་མི་ཚོས་ཅ་ན་པུ་རིར་ལྷག་དཀར་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འཆར་ཡོད་པ་དེའི་ཐོག སྤྱི་འཐུས་རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་ཀྱང་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་བསྐྱེད་མཚོད་ཆེད་དུ་ལས་འགུལ་ནང་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད
ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ཉིན་ས་གནས་ནས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཀྱིས་གནས་ཚུལ་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་བྱས་པ་ལྟར་ན། ཉིན་གྲངས་གསུམ་རིང་གི་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གོང་ཚེས་ཉིན་དབུ་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཉིན་དང་པོར་༢༠༠༩ ལོའི་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་སྐབས་སུ་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པའི་ལས་དོན་འཆར་འགོད་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་སྦྲགས་ནས། བོད་ནང་དུ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཕྱོགས་དང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་སྟེང་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འཚོལ་ཐབས། རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡེ་ཁག་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་མི་མང་ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཐད་ལ་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ཆ་བགོས་ཀྱིས་བཀའ་གྲོས་སོགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཉིན་རྒྱབ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་བ་སྐུ་ཞབས་པི་ཌི་ཨི་མཆོག་གིས། བོད་མི་ཚོས་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པར་འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་དང་། འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་པའི་སྐབས་གནད་དོན་ཁག་རྣམས་ལག་ལེན་བསྟར་ཕྱོགས་ཐད་ལ་བཀའ་མོལ་ལྷུག་པོ་གནང་ནས་དྲི་བ་ཁག་ལའང་ལན་འདེབས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
དེ་བཞིན་ཉིན་གཉིས་པའི་སྔ་དྲོར་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་ཞབས་ས་ཝ་རན་སི་མཆོག་གིས། རྒྱ་དཀར་ནག་གཉིས་དབར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་འཛུགས་བཞིན་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་འདིའི་འོག་ནས། རྒྱ་གར་གྱིས་བོད་ཐོག་འཛིན་པའི་སྲིད་བྱུས་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཕྱི་དྲོར་མཁས་དབང་སུ་བྷ་ཤ་ཀཱ་ཤབ་མཆོག་གིས། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་ཆབ་སྲིད་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་འགན་དབང་མི་མང་གིས་འདེམས་ཐོན་བྱུང་བའི་ལས་ཀྱི་སྣེ་མོ་བ་ཚོར་གསོལ་བསྩལ་གནང་རྗེས་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ནས་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་བསྐྱར་བཅོས་གནང་བ། དེར་འབྲེལ་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་དང་བརྟན་ལྷིང་གནས་ཐབས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་དང་དོགས་འདྲི་གནང་རྒྱུ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ཁག་གི་གྲོས་དོན་དང་བགྲོ་གླེང་སོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་བསྡུས་ཏེ། དུས་ནམ་ཞིག་ཚུལ་ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་གང་གིས་ལག་བསྟར་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་འདུག
ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༢༢ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་དབུས་གྲོས་ཚོགས་དང་དབུས་བོད་སློབ་འཛིན་ཚོགས་ལས་ཁུངས་སུ་གཟིགས་སྐོར་ཕེབས་རྒྱུ་དང་། རྒྱ་གར་གྲོས་ཚོགས་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་མི་ལྷན་དུ་འདུ་འཛོམས་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། ཚེས་༢༣ ཉིན་ལྡི་ལི་ཁུལ་དུ་གནས་སྡོད་བྱེད་མཁན་བོད་མི་ཚོས་ཅ་ན་པུ་རིར་ལྷག་དཀར་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འཆར་ཡོད་པ་དེའི་ཐོག སྤྱི་འཐུས་རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་ཀྱང་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་བསྐྱེད་མཚོད་ཆེད་དུ་ལས་འགུལ་ནང་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Letter to Kalon Tripa
Dear Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangye la
Tibetan people in Arunachal Pradesh have high expectation from you and your administration. I am not sure if Dharamsala know the difficulty people are facinghttp in settlement- due to number of factors: local and international political problem, lack of able settlement officer and secretary, lack of qualified school teacher, lack of medical services. Sometime Dharamsala have step motherly attitude toward Tibetan Settlement situated in Arunachal Pradesh. Bhabus of Dharamsala dont have real knowledge of the settlement. We request Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangye La - please dont let down like other have done before . thank you- Palden Dugd
Tibetan people in Arunachal Pradesh have high expectation from you and your administration. I am not sure if Dharamsala know the difficulty people are facinghttp in settlement- due to number of factors: local and international political problem, lack of able settlement officer and secretary, lack of qualified school teacher, lack of medical services. Sometime Dharamsala have step motherly attitude toward Tibetan Settlement situated in Arunachal Pradesh. Bhabus of Dharamsala dont have real knowledge of the settlement. We request Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangye La - please dont let down like other have done before . thank you- Palden Dugd
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
His Holiness Sends Message on 'Oneness of Humanity' to Global Africa Conference
[Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 10:22 a.m.]
PRETORIA: In his message to participants at the Global Africa uBuntu conference held in Johannesburg from 9 – 11 November, His Holiness the Dalai Lama underlined that “many of the world's problems, conflicts and fears arise due to lack our ability to accept the oneness of humanity”.
“Today's world requires us to accept the oneness of humanity. Many of the world's problems, conflicts and fears arise because we have lost sight of the common experience that binds us all together as a human family,” His Holiness said in the message, which was read out by his representative to South Africa, Mr Sonam Tenzing.
“We tend to forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. In the past, particular communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally separate. Some could even exist in total isolation,” he said.
“But nowadays, whatever happens on one region eventually affects many other areas. Within the context of our new interdependence, self-interest clearly lies in considering the interest of others," he added.
A short video message of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was shown to the conference participants, while representatives from various faith groups read their messages on the importance of oneness.
More than 800 participants from different parts of the world attended the three-day conference, which was organised by Oneness Africa organisation based in Johannesburg.
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PRETORIA: In his message to participants at the Global Africa uBuntu conference held in Johannesburg from 9 – 11 November, His Holiness the Dalai Lama underlined that “many of the world's problems, conflicts and fears arise due to lack our ability to accept the oneness of humanity”.
“Today's world requires us to accept the oneness of humanity. Many of the world's problems, conflicts and fears arise because we have lost sight of the common experience that binds us all together as a human family,” His Holiness said in the message, which was read out by his representative to South Africa, Mr Sonam Tenzing.
“We tend to forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. In the past, particular communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally separate. Some could even exist in total isolation,” he said.
“But nowadays, whatever happens on one region eventually affects many other areas. Within the context of our new interdependence, self-interest clearly lies in considering the interest of others," he added.
A short video message of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was shown to the conference participants, while representatives from various faith groups read their messages on the importance of oneness.
More than 800 participants from different parts of the world attended the three-day conference, which was organised by Oneness Africa organisation based in Johannesburg.
Behave like 'grown up' economy: Obama to China
HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama served notice on Sunday that the United States was fed up with China's trade and currency practices as he turned up the heat on America's biggest economic rival.
"Enough's enough," Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone and promote green technologies.
Using some of his toughest language yet against China, Obama, a day after face-to-face talks with President Hu Jintao, demanded that China stop "gaming" the international system and create a level playing field for U.S. and other foreign businesses.
"We're going to continue to be firm that China operate by the same rules as everyone else," Obama told reporters after hosting the 21-nation APEC summit in his native Honolulu. "We don't want them taking advantage of the United States."
China shot back that it refused to abide by international economic rules that it had no part in writing.
"First we have to know whose rules we are talking about," Pang Sen, a deputy director-general at China's Foreign Ministry said.
"If the rules are made collectively through agreement and China is a part of it, then China will abide by them. If rules are decided by one or even several countries, China does not have the obligation to abide by that."
Even as Obama issued the veiled threat of further punitive action against China, it was unclear how much of his tough rhetoric was, at least in part, political posturing aimed at economically weary U.S. voters who will decide next November whether to give him a second term.
Obama insisted that China allow its currency to rise faster in value, saying it was being kept artificially low and was
hurting American companies and jobs. He said China, which often presents itself as a developing country, is now "grown up" and should act that way in global economic affairs.
The sharp words between the U.S. and China contrasted with the unified front that Asia-Pacific leaders sought to present with a pledge to bolster their economies and lower trade barriers in an effort to shield against the fallout from Europe's debt crisis.
The members of APEC, which accounts for more than half of the world's economic output, said they had agreed on ways to counter "significant downside risks" to the world economy.
That followed an appeal by Obama, seeking to reassert U.S. leadership to counter China's growing influence around the Pacific Rim, for a commitment to expand trade opportunities as an antidote to Europe's fiscal woes.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, in Honolulu to consult with APEC leaders, said the euro zone upheaval risked sweeping the world economy into a "downward spiral" that all countries had a stake in resolving the crisis.
TRADE LIBERALIZATION PROMISED
APEC said in a final communique: "We recognize that further trade liberalization is essential to achieving a sustainable global recovery in the aftermath of the global recession of 2008-2009."
The communique also expressed a firm resolve "to support the strong, sustained and balanced growth of the regional and global economy" -- a clear reference to U.S. concerns about a huge trade deficit with China's export-driven economy, fiscal problems in developed nations and the low savings rate in the United States.
In another bow to U.S. pressure, APEC committed to reducing tariffs on environmental goods and services to 5 percent as a way to promote green technology trade, overcoming China's resistance to the idea.
Differences persist among APEC members -- a point hammered home by U.S.-China tensions -- and the question remains how far leaders will be able to go in turning promises into action. Many, Obama included, will face resistance to opening markets further to foreign competition.
Obama's public denunciation of China's policies came as he faces pressure at home, from Republican presidential contenders as well as fellow Democrats, for a tougher line on Beijing. But U.S. leverage is limited, not least because Beijing is America's largest foreign creditor.
Though Obama acknowledged a "slight improvement" in the value of China's yuan, he insisted it was not enough.
The United States has long complained that China keeps its currency artificially weak to give its exporters an advantage. China counters that the yuan should rise only gradually to avoid harming the economy and driving up unemployment, which would hurt global growth.
Hu was quoted by Chinanews.com in Beijing on Sunday as saying a big appreciation in the yuan against the dollar would not help U.S. trade and unemployment problems.
The yuan inched up against the dollar. Dealers said Hu's comments in Honolulu indicated that China had no intention of letting the currency rise faster in the near term.
U.S. ENGAGEMENT
Obama declared U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific region as "absolutely critical" to America's prosperity. By harnessing the potential for expanded trade with the world's fastest-growing region, Obama hopes he can create U.S. jobs to help him through a tough reelection fight in 2012.
Obama's drive toward a pan-Pacific free trade zone -- the signature U.S. achievement of the summit -- got a boost when Canada, Mexico and Japan said they were interested in joining talks now under way among nine countries, and they agreed to complete the detailed framework in 2012.
The Philippines was discussing the matter, U.S. officials said.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership adds momentum to Obama's pledge to double U.S. exports, made more urgent by the virtual collapse of the Doha round of trade talks. A free trade zone in the region would outstrip the market size of the European Union. But for Japan, such a deal faces major political obstacles at home.
Yet there was little promise of immediate economic dividends as such trade deals often take years to take effect.
Obama is seeking to assure allies of a U.S. "pivot" as China flexes its economic and military muscles in Asia and beyond. But leaders may doubt whether Washington can avoid being distracted by economic woes at home and foreign policy priorities like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
(Reporting by Reuters APEC team; Writing by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Stella Dawson)
"Enough's enough," Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone and promote green technologies.
Using some of his toughest language yet against China, Obama, a day after face-to-face talks with President Hu Jintao, demanded that China stop "gaming" the international system and create a level playing field for U.S. and other foreign businesses.
"We're going to continue to be firm that China operate by the same rules as everyone else," Obama told reporters after hosting the 21-nation APEC summit in his native Honolulu. "We don't want them taking advantage of the United States."
China shot back that it refused to abide by international economic rules that it had no part in writing.
"First we have to know whose rules we are talking about," Pang Sen, a deputy director-general at China's Foreign Ministry said.
"If the rules are made collectively through agreement and China is a part of it, then China will abide by them. If rules are decided by one or even several countries, China does not have the obligation to abide by that."
Even as Obama issued the veiled threat of further punitive action against China, it was unclear how much of his tough rhetoric was, at least in part, political posturing aimed at economically weary U.S. voters who will decide next November whether to give him a second term.
Obama insisted that China allow its currency to rise faster in value, saying it was being kept artificially low and was
hurting American companies and jobs. He said China, which often presents itself as a developing country, is now "grown up" and should act that way in global economic affairs.
The sharp words between the U.S. and China contrasted with the unified front that Asia-Pacific leaders sought to present with a pledge to bolster their economies and lower trade barriers in an effort to shield against the fallout from Europe's debt crisis.
The members of APEC, which accounts for more than half of the world's economic output, said they had agreed on ways to counter "significant downside risks" to the world economy.
That followed an appeal by Obama, seeking to reassert U.S. leadership to counter China's growing influence around the Pacific Rim, for a commitment to expand trade opportunities as an antidote to Europe's fiscal woes.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, in Honolulu to consult with APEC leaders, said the euro zone upheaval risked sweeping the world economy into a "downward spiral" that all countries had a stake in resolving the crisis.
TRADE LIBERALIZATION PROMISED
APEC said in a final communique: "We recognize that further trade liberalization is essential to achieving a sustainable global recovery in the aftermath of the global recession of 2008-2009."
The communique also expressed a firm resolve "to support the strong, sustained and balanced growth of the regional and global economy" -- a clear reference to U.S. concerns about a huge trade deficit with China's export-driven economy, fiscal problems in developed nations and the low savings rate in the United States.
In another bow to U.S. pressure, APEC committed to reducing tariffs on environmental goods and services to 5 percent as a way to promote green technology trade, overcoming China's resistance to the idea.
Differences persist among APEC members -- a point hammered home by U.S.-China tensions -- and the question remains how far leaders will be able to go in turning promises into action. Many, Obama included, will face resistance to opening markets further to foreign competition.
Obama's public denunciation of China's policies came as he faces pressure at home, from Republican presidential contenders as well as fellow Democrats, for a tougher line on Beijing. But U.S. leverage is limited, not least because Beijing is America's largest foreign creditor.
Though Obama acknowledged a "slight improvement" in the value of China's yuan, he insisted it was not enough.
The United States has long complained that China keeps its currency artificially weak to give its exporters an advantage. China counters that the yuan should rise only gradually to avoid harming the economy and driving up unemployment, which would hurt global growth.
Hu was quoted by Chinanews.com in Beijing on Sunday as saying a big appreciation in the yuan against the dollar would not help U.S. trade and unemployment problems.
The yuan inched up against the dollar. Dealers said Hu's comments in Honolulu indicated that China had no intention of letting the currency rise faster in the near term.
U.S. ENGAGEMENT
Obama declared U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific region as "absolutely critical" to America's prosperity. By harnessing the potential for expanded trade with the world's fastest-growing region, Obama hopes he can create U.S. jobs to help him through a tough reelection fight in 2012.
Obama's drive toward a pan-Pacific free trade zone -- the signature U.S. achievement of the summit -- got a boost when Canada, Mexico and Japan said they were interested in joining talks now under way among nine countries, and they agreed to complete the detailed framework in 2012.
The Philippines was discussing the matter, U.S. officials said.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership adds momentum to Obama's pledge to double U.S. exports, made more urgent by the virtual collapse of the Doha round of trade talks. A free trade zone in the region would outstrip the market size of the European Union. But for Japan, such a deal faces major political obstacles at home.
Yet there was little promise of immediate economic dividends as such trade deals often take years to take effect.
Obama is seeking to assure allies of a U.S. "pivot" as China flexes its economic and military muscles in Asia and beyond. But leaders may doubt whether Washington can avoid being distracted by economic woes at home and foreign policy priorities like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
(Reporting by Reuters APEC team; Writing by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Stella Dawson)
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Workshop on Tibet awareness to Himalayan and North East Indian Students
Dharamshala: A workshop on Tibet awareness program has commenced at the upper TCV school this morning. The workshop is organised by the India-Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) based in New Delhi for the students of Himalayan and north east regions of India.
Mr Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha, Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), inaugurated the workshop and stated in his opening remarks that he is happy to inaugurate the first ever workshop for the students of Himalayan and north eastern regions and added that it is encouraging to see so many young faces eager to learn about Tibet and its struggle for a homeland.
Mr Atisha gave a detailed account of the important events that have taken place in Tibet's history since 1947 and also narrated personal anecdotes from his visit to north eastern Tibet in 1985 as a member of the fourth fact-finding delegation.
In the afternoon session, Mr Thubten Samphel, Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), gave an introduction on the “Organisational Structure of the Central Tibetan Administration".
At the end of the day's session, Salim, a participant from Ladakh, stated that he learned so much about Tibet and its political situation and hopes to learn more in the next two days while Jigme Dorjee, another participant from Sikkim, stated that the mainstream media should focus more on the Tibetan people's non-violent movement for freedom rather than just covering the agitations.
The workshop also include talks by Mr Tenzin Norbu on Tibet's fragile ecosystem and Miss Dukhten Kyi on the human rights situation inside Tibet.
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay will also grace the workshop on it's last day and will address the participants.
Around 20 students from Burma, Bhutan and Nepal as well as regions like Ladakh, Lahaul, Sikkim and Nagaland participated in the workshop. The workshop will continue till 12 November and the participants will depart to New Delhi on 13 November.
Mr Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha, Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), inaugurated the workshop and stated in his opening remarks that he is happy to inaugurate the first ever workshop for the students of Himalayan and north eastern regions and added that it is encouraging to see so many young faces eager to learn about Tibet and its struggle for a homeland.
Mr Atisha gave a detailed account of the important events that have taken place in Tibet's history since 1947 and also narrated personal anecdotes from his visit to north eastern Tibet in 1985 as a member of the fourth fact-finding delegation.
In the afternoon session, Mr Thubten Samphel, Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), gave an introduction on the “Organisational Structure of the Central Tibetan Administration".
At the end of the day's session, Salim, a participant from Ladakh, stated that he learned so much about Tibet and its political situation and hopes to learn more in the next two days while Jigme Dorjee, another participant from Sikkim, stated that the mainstream media should focus more on the Tibetan people's non-violent movement for freedom rather than just covering the agitations.
The workshop also include talks by Mr Tenzin Norbu on Tibet's fragile ecosystem and Miss Dukhten Kyi on the human rights situation inside Tibet.
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay will also grace the workshop on it's last day and will address the participants.
Around 20 students from Burma, Bhutan and Nepal as well as regions like Ladakh, Lahaul, Sikkim and Nagaland participated in the workshop. The workshop will continue till 12 November and the participants will depart to New Delhi on 13 November.
Dr. Sangay On The Self-Immolations: "Sacred Duty to Show Support
Dharamshala: - The political leader of (Kalon Tripa) of the Tibetan Government in Exile (Central Tibetan Administration) spoke to the press Friday, 11th November about his views on the self-immolations, a brave yet worrisome brand of protest that has gained popularity amongst Tibetans struggling against Chinese rule.
Tibet's new, Harvard-educated political leader said that although he was not encouraging Tibetans to burn themselves to death, it was his sacred duty to show support for the men and women who have chosen to take drastic steps.
The 11 instances of self-immolation all took place in the Sichuan province of Tibet, an area rife with prominent Tibetan monasteries that have been smothered by what the Dalai Lama calls "cultural genocide". Around 2000 Chinese officials have taken seige of Kirti monastery, the scene of a large number of the self-immolations. Heavy-handed security measures and interference in the monasteries has prevented monks from freely practicing their religion, subsquently leading them commit the desperate act of self-immolation.
The information blockade imposed by the Chinese within Eastern Tibet has isolated it from the outside world. Sangay said an increased Chinese military presence around monasteries was ‘undeclared martial law'.
"Once a protest takes place it becomes our sacred duty to show solidarity and support, support for the voice that they raise, so the life that they sacrifice or the torture that they endure do not go in vain," Sangay told the international media. "My duty as a political leader is to echo or if possible magnify these voices, with sadness and pain obviously".
China still claims that Tibetans in the Sichuan province are free to practice their religion. They have publicly accused Tibet's spiritual leader of abetting the self-immolations, deeming them acts of "terrorism in disguise". But the truth of the matter is that the Tibetans are harming no one but themselves.
On Wednesday, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Lama in Exile, one of the senior-most monks of the Tibetan Buddhist heirarchy, appealed to Tibetans to preserve their lives and stop resorting to the act of self-immolation. Sangay echoed his sentiment, saying "We want Tibetan people to live, we want Tibetan people to lead, definitely. But... the motivation is for Tibet and for Tibetan people and their intention is also very clear, not to harm anyone," he said.
Dr. Sangay is the first democratically elected leader of the Tibetan people after His Holiness the Dalai Lama retired his role as political head of Tibet. Dr. Sangay reiterated that he and His Holiness the Dalai Lama are not seeking Tibet's independence from China, only meaningful autonomy for their homeland. He said China's increasingly heavy-handed rule after six decades of occupation was to blame for the monk suicides.
Tibet's new, Harvard-educated political leader said that although he was not encouraging Tibetans to burn themselves to death, it was his sacred duty to show support for the men and women who have chosen to take drastic steps.
The 11 instances of self-immolation all took place in the Sichuan province of Tibet, an area rife with prominent Tibetan monasteries that have been smothered by what the Dalai Lama calls "cultural genocide". Around 2000 Chinese officials have taken seige of Kirti monastery, the scene of a large number of the self-immolations. Heavy-handed security measures and interference in the monasteries has prevented monks from freely practicing their religion, subsquently leading them commit the desperate act of self-immolation.
The information blockade imposed by the Chinese within Eastern Tibet has isolated it from the outside world. Sangay said an increased Chinese military presence around monasteries was ‘undeclared martial law'.
"Once a protest takes place it becomes our sacred duty to show solidarity and support, support for the voice that they raise, so the life that they sacrifice or the torture that they endure do not go in vain," Sangay told the international media. "My duty as a political leader is to echo or if possible magnify these voices, with sadness and pain obviously".
China still claims that Tibetans in the Sichuan province are free to practice their religion. They have publicly accused Tibet's spiritual leader of abetting the self-immolations, deeming them acts of "terrorism in disguise". But the truth of the matter is that the Tibetans are harming no one but themselves.
On Wednesday, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Lama in Exile, one of the senior-most monks of the Tibetan Buddhist heirarchy, appealed to Tibetans to preserve their lives and stop resorting to the act of self-immolation. Sangay echoed his sentiment, saying "We want Tibetan people to live, we want Tibetan people to lead, definitely. But... the motivation is for Tibet and for Tibetan people and their intention is also very clear, not to harm anyone," he said.
Dr. Sangay is the first democratically elected leader of the Tibetan people after His Holiness the Dalai Lama retired his role as political head of Tibet. Dr. Sangay reiterated that he and His Holiness the Dalai Lama are not seeking Tibet's independence from China, only meaningful autonomy for their homeland. He said China's increasingly heavy-handed rule after six decades of occupation was to blame for the monk suicides.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
" On Fire In Tibet "
By Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay
The Washington Post
November 4, 2011
Eleven Tibetans have set fire to themselves in eastern Tibet since March. Six have died. The Chinese government describes them as "terrorists in disguise."
The reality is that their desperate acts were a scathing indictment of the People's Republic of China's rule in occupied Tibet. They highlight the dramatic struggle for survival as a people with a unique culture and identity.
Tibetans in exile have reacted to the pain and suffering inside Tibet, particularly in the Ngaba and Karze areas, where most of these self-immolations have occurred, with horror and anxiety. The monks and nuns who immolated themselves were sacrificing their bodies to draw the world's attention to Chinese repression in Tibet.
The immolators acted on behalf of Tibet and the Tibetan people, and their intention was to harm no one else. This painful and sad action emerges from their anguish; they live in a climate of fear and have no other means of expressing themselves.
The Tibetan leadership in exile does not encourage self-immolation or protests inside Tibet because China only responds with more repression. It also heaps blame on the protesters. Instead of dousing the fire, Chinese authorities beat the first immolator, who died partly because of those injuries.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has consistently appealed to Tibetans not to resort to such desperate acts. In 2008, for example, His Holiness the Dalai Lama asked Tibetans to cease the hunger strikes they were staging in response to China's repressive policies.
As Tibet's political leader, I also have appealed to exiled Tibetans to end their unto-death hunger strikes because we need them to protect and preserve our cultural and national identity,and to ensure the strength of our movement worldwide.
We urge Tibetans in and outside our homeland to focus on secular and monastic education. Highly educated professionals and learned monks will provide the human resources and the capability to strengthen and sustain our movement.
We must focus on the cause of the recent tragedies: the continuing occupation of Tibet and the Chinese policies of political repression, cultural assimilation, economic marginalization, and environmental destruction.
China risks further escalation by tightening the measures that led to the protests. During and after the uprising of 2008, the Chinese government imposed undeclared martial law in Tibet and carried out harsh actions, particularly in monasteries. Following the death of 20-year Kirti monk Lobsang Phuntsog in March of this year, the
authorities cracked down even more tightly in Ngaba, virtually occupying the monastery, banning religious ceremonies, and imprisoning and torturing an unknown number of monks. They even forbade possession of a photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In exile, we support those in Tibet who are on the front lines of protecting their religious and cultural integrity; we try to ensure that their voices are heard by the world community. On Oct. 19, we organized a day-long prayer and fast, in accordance with our Buddhist traditions, in solidarity with those who self-immolated.
It is our responsibility make sure that that the calls those Tibetans for restoration of freedom are heard, and their sacrifices are not in vain.
It is clear that the root of the self-immolations is the continuing occupation of Tibet. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan administration are not the problem but the solution.
We urge the United Nations and the international community to send fact-finding delegations to Tibet and view the situation firsthand. Independent media and liberal Chinese intellectuals should also be allowed access. The international community must press the government of the People's Republic of China to restore freedom and resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue for the mutual benefit of the Tibetan and Chinese people
By Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay
The Washington Post
November 4, 2011
Eleven Tibetans have set fire to themselves in eastern Tibet since March. Six have died. The Chinese government describes them as "terrorists in disguise."
The reality is that their desperate acts were a scathing indictment of the People's Republic of China's rule in occupied Tibet. They highlight the dramatic struggle for survival as a people with a unique culture and identity.
Tibetans in exile have reacted to the pain and suffering inside Tibet, particularly in the Ngaba and Karze areas, where most of these self-immolations have occurred, with horror and anxiety. The monks and nuns who immolated themselves were sacrificing their bodies to draw the world's attention to Chinese repression in Tibet.
The immolators acted on behalf of Tibet and the Tibetan people, and their intention was to harm no one else. This painful and sad action emerges from their anguish; they live in a climate of fear and have no other means of expressing themselves.
The Tibetan leadership in exile does not encourage self-immolation or protests inside Tibet because China only responds with more repression. It also heaps blame on the protesters. Instead of dousing the fire, Chinese authorities beat the first immolator, who died partly because of those injuries.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has consistently appealed to Tibetans not to resort to such desperate acts. In 2008, for example, His Holiness the Dalai Lama asked Tibetans to cease the hunger strikes they were staging in response to China's repressive policies.
As Tibet's political leader, I also have appealed to exiled Tibetans to end their unto-death hunger strikes because we need them to protect and preserve our cultural and national identity,and to ensure the strength of our movement worldwide.
We urge Tibetans in and outside our homeland to focus on secular and monastic education. Highly educated professionals and learned monks will provide the human resources and the capability to strengthen and sustain our movement.
We must focus on the cause of the recent tragedies: the continuing occupation of Tibet and the Chinese policies of political repression, cultural assimilation, economic marginalization, and environmental destruction.
China risks further escalation by tightening the measures that led to the protests. During and after the uprising of 2008, the Chinese government imposed undeclared martial law in Tibet and carried out harsh actions, particularly in monasteries. Following the death of 20-year Kirti monk Lobsang Phuntsog in March of this year, the
authorities cracked down even more tightly in Ngaba, virtually occupying the monastery, banning religious ceremonies, and imprisoning and torturing an unknown number of monks. They even forbade possession of a photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In exile, we support those in Tibet who are on the front lines of protecting their religious and cultural integrity; we try to ensure that their voices are heard by the world community. On Oct. 19, we organized a day-long prayer and fast, in accordance with our Buddhist traditions, in solidarity with those who self-immolated.
It is our responsibility make sure that that the calls those Tibetans for restoration of freedom are heard, and their sacrifices are not in vain.
It is clear that the root of the self-immolations is the continuing occupation of Tibet. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan administration are not the problem but the solution.
We urge the United Nations and the international community to send fact-finding delegations to Tibet and view the situation firsthand. Independent media and liberal Chinese intellectuals should also be allowed access. The international community must press the government of the People's Republic of China to restore freedom and resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue for the mutual benefit of the Tibetan and Chinese people
Tibet resettlement project
The CTC has incorporated Project Tibet Society to oversee the implementation of the Canadian government's incredible gesture to resettle 1,000 displaced Tibetans to Canada over the next five years.
In June, Project Tibet Society signed a memorandum of understanding with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to oversee the program's implementation.
One thousand displaced Tibetans are now counting on us to establish their new lives in Canada. They need your help and the CTC can only do this with your help.
We'll need support with everything from acquainting new arrivals to their host city, to securing employment and a place to live. If you haven't already volunteered, it's not too late. If you can lend a hand, please contact us at ctcoffice@tibet.ca
You can learn more about the resettlement project at:
www.tibet.ca/projecttibetsociety
and to stay up-to-date with developments, please Like the project's Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/tibetresettlementproject
Comite Canada Tibet Committee
www.tibet.ca
The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) is an independent non-governmental organisation of Tibetans and non-Tibetans living in Canada, who are concerned about the continuing human rights violations and lack of democratic freedom in
In June, Project Tibet Society signed a memorandum of understanding with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to oversee the program's implementation.
One thousand displaced Tibetans are now counting on us to establish their new lives in Canada. They need your help and the CTC can only do this with your help.
We'll need support with everything from acquainting new arrivals to their host city, to securing employment and a place to live. If you haven't already volunteered, it's not too late. If you can lend a hand, please contact us at ctcoffice@tibet.ca
You can learn more about the resettlement project at:
www.tibet.ca/projecttibetsociety
and to stay up-to-date with developments, please Like the project's Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/tibetresettlementproject
Comite Canada Tibet Committee
www.tibet.ca
The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) is an independent non-governmental organisation of Tibetans and non-Tibetans living in Canada, who are concerned about the continuing human rights violations and lack of democratic freedom in
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