Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
April 23, 2009

"A Short Note From Someone Pretending To Do Retreat"

Via Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: Over at Siddhartha’s Intent, the remarkable Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche powerfully eulogizes the late Penor Rinpoche. Take a look.

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April 23, 2009

Tibet News (4.23.09)

In this April 8, 2008 file photo, Jigme Norbu, left, nephew of the Dalai Lama, stands next to Thupten Donyo, right, while holding up a photo of the Dalai Lama, as they rally with Tibetans and supporters at City Hall in San Francisco. Norbu, who just completed a 900 mile walk from Indiana to New York on Friday, April 17, 2009, attended a noon rally in front of the Chinese consulate in New York to protest Chinese suppression of Tibetans, Saturday, April 18, 2009. Photo by Jeff Chiu for the Associated Press.
Here is some of the latest on Tibet:

  • The Associated Press reports that Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, “who headed a nunnery in Ganzi, a predominantly Tibetan prefecture in Sichuan province,” appeared in court this week “on weapons charges related to last year’s protests and faces a lengthy prison term if convicted.”
  • TibetCustom reports that Chinese state media has reported that “one more Tibetan has been given suspended death sentence with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court in Lhasa.”
  • The AP also reports that His Holiness the Dalai Lama “criticized lengthy prison terms given a day earlier by China to three people for arson attacks during rioting last year in the Tibetan capital, calling the rulings politically motivated.”
  • The Agence France-Presse reports that His Holiness also “accused China of ‘acting like a child’ in cracking down on Tibetans and other minorities, saying it lacked the moral authority of a genuine superpower.”
  • Both the AP and the AFP report on Tibet’s recovering tourist industry.
  • Lastly, the AP reports that “the Dalai Lama’s nephew has finished a 900-mile walk across America to protest what he calls Chinese suppression of Tibetans.”

    • April 23, 2009

    Burma News (4.23.09)

    Here’s some of the latest on Burma:

  • Reuters offers a photo essay on Thai-Burma border refugee children.
  • International Rescue Committee reports on medical care for folks in the border area.
  • The Agence France-Presse reports that Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has called on Burma to “release detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a recent meeting with Prime Minister Thein Sein, the foreign department said [last] Friday.”
  • EarthTimes reports that “the European Commission is ready to provide more aid to Myanmar but the hermitic South-East Asian country must open up to dialogue with donors on the needed development assistance.”