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“The Dalai Clique”, says Chinese Vocabulary
By: Tenzin Sangmo Pontsang

Amid sensitive negotiations on establishing a more permanent dialogue between the Tibetan Government in Exile and the People’s Republic of China, the latter’s verbal attacks on the Dalai Lama has continued unabatedly. The purpose of The Dalai Clique according to Beijing is to arouse divisive conflict between the different sects of Tibetan Buddhism thus sabotaging the unity of Tibet. China claims that Dalai Lama’s position as a vice-chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was preserved until 1964 after he fled abroad, but once surrounded by foreign anti-Chinese sources and Tibetan separatists he renounced patriotism and engaged in numerous activities to split the Motherland. Click here to read more...

Ka, Kha, Ga in the Hill and ABC in the School
By: Buchung D. Sonam

BIt was my grandfather – the abbot of the local monastery in yesterday’s Tibet, and a shepherd in occupied Tibet – who, while looking after the flock of sheep and goats taught me to read Tibetan. Up in the hills and away from the eyes of local communists, he used charcoal on large boulders to write Ka, Kha, Ga …. Those secret lessons under the eternal blue sky were my first introduction into the mesmerizing world of ‘letters.’
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NEVER LOSE HOPE
"China’s Sleeping Beauty, Tibet’s Four Unique and Wonders of Other Devolution Packages"
By Thubten Samphel

Globalization is generating relentless homogenizing forces that make everyone in the world think, eat, buy and live alike, more or less. However, there are people in various parts of the world, who, while embracing the benefits of globalization, have successfully retained their distinct cultural and linguistic identities. They have done this by achieving a variety of autonomous arrangements, which have enabled them to retain and expand upon their distinctive cultures and languages. Click here to read more...

DALAI LAMA'S shattered dream for Tibet
By: B. Gautam

June Issue 2007: Tibet looks like a dream shattered. You feel this when you hear the stories of horror told and retold by Buddhist monks and nuns who have escaped from Tibet and taken refuge in Dharamshala, the center of Tibetan government in exile in India. Click here to read more...

 

Understanding the CHINESE MIND

By Brig (retd) Harwant Singh

July issue 2007: The recent denial of a visa to an Arunachal Pradesh born AIS officer, as part of a 107 – strong team intending to visit China, on the ground that Arunachal was part of China and that being a Chinese citizen he did not need a visa, is the latest attempt by China to reiterate its claim to the territory which we consider ours and is now under our effective political, administration and military control. Click here to read more...