Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
November 21, 2008

Tibet News (11.21.08)

Here are the Tibet-related headlines for today:

  • The Los Angeles Times reports that exile groups have told them that “China has further tightened control in its ethnic Tibetan region in recent weeks…even as it was ostensibly negotiating in good faith with the Dalai Lama’s envoys.”
  • Meanwhile, Reuters reports that the Chinese government has removed Bi Hua from her post as director of the no. 7 bureau of the Party’s United Front Work Department. Her office oversees Tibetan affairs, and she is described as having been “a key policymaker of the Chinese Communist Party on Tibet.”
  • The International Campaign for Tibet reports that His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s elder brother, Gyalo Thondup, has spoken in Dharamsala at the meeting of Tibetan leaders in exile.
  • As that meeting continues, the ICT also offers “perspectives from inside Tibet” on the Sino-Tibetan conflict.

    • November 21, 2008

    The Sacred Caves of Tara Mountain

    Via Molly De Shong at Shambhala Sun Space: Tibetologist Glenn Mullin has posted another video to YouTube, this one of the “Sacred Caves of Tara Mountain” in Tibet. I previously posted about his video of “Shambhala in the Gobi”. To follow his videos, you can subscribe to his YouTube page here.