Rev. Danny Fisher

Via the Manitoba Buddhist Temple Blog:

Time Magazine lists the uprisings in Tibet and nearby exile communities this past March among the year’s top ten religion stories in their 2008 “Year in Review” issue. They write of the demonstrations’ significance:

In a bloody prelude to China’s August self-celebration as a mature superpower at the Beijing Olympics, its government brutally suppressed a series of street demonstrations by hundreds of Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in March. Chinese troops killed a still-unknown total of monks, and days later ethnic Tibetans rioted in several cities, killing ethnic Chinese before a suspiciously delayed government crackdown. World sympathy swung back to China shortly afterward when it sustained a huge earthquake. But the uprisings and government response further poisoned Chinese-Tibetan relations and may have convinced the Dalai Lama to allow younger activists to more openly voice their argument that negotiating for Tibetan autonomy within China is a fool’s game.

This courtesy of our friend Nick Vail at 2nd Wave American Buddhism: A massive online collection of Tibetan Buddhist teachings on video can now be found and downloaded at Online Dharma Classics. Wow!

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