Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

Month: April, 2009

April 29, 2009

Gyalyum Chemo: The Great Mother Trailer

Via the indubitably redoubtable Andrea Miller over at Shambhala SunSpace:

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April 29, 2009

Tibet News (4.28.09)

“His Holiness the Dalai Lama poses with his FOX News mug after an interview.” Photo by FOX News.
[This post has been updated as of 9:10 p.m. EST on 4.29.09.]

Here’s the latest on Tibet:

  • FOX News reports on their interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
  • The Times Online also interviews His Holiness.
  • The New York Times writes that “China cannot be the aggrieved victim in the morning and the bully in the afternoon.”
  • The Times also profiles Woeser, the outspoken Tibetan poet and blogger who lives in Beijing.
  • The Times further reports that “a Chinese court has indefinitely postponed delivering a verdict in the case of a Tibetan abbot charged with illegal possession of weapons and embezzlement.”
  • The Associated Press reports that China has said that President Barack Obama should not meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his U.S. visit.
  • Reporters without Borders issues a press release about their concern over the plight of Dokru Tsuilrim, the recently-arrested monk who edited the magazine Khawai Tsesok (Soul of the Snow).
  • Reuters reports that “hundreds of Tibetan high schoolers staged an early morning protest in the monastery town of Xiahe, in Gansu province in northwestern China” this past Saturday.
  • Columbia University’s Robbie Barnett writes for the New Strait Times about “a way out of Tibet’s morass for China.”
  • UC-Berkeley reports on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to their campus. (Their report also includes some great photos.)
  • Phayul reports that “Tibet’s Government in exile has strongly condemned the latest harsh sentences being handed down by Chinese court on three young Tibetan girls in Lhasa over anti-China protests in Tibet last year.”

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    April 29, 2009

    Burma News (4.28.09)

    Here’s the latest on Burma:

  • After reviewing the matter, neither the United States nor the European Union will lift their sanctions against Burma’s junta.
  • The Associated Press reports that Malaysia has “vowed to investigate a scathing report by U.S. lawmakers saying thousands of Myanmar refugees were handed over to human traffickers with some ending up working in Thai brothels.”
  • The AP also reports that Burma’s imprisoned activist/comedian “Tweezers” has taken ill.
  • Lastly, the AP reports that members of the National League for Democracy, the party of imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, “will wait to see whether laws governing next year’s elections conform with democratic standards before deciding if they will contest the polls.”

    • April 28, 2009

    My First Day in the Office

    The author in his new office at University of the West in Rosemead, CA. Photo by Miroj Shakya.

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    April 27, 2009

    Which is Best for Head-Shaving?

    Two Korean Buddhist nuns mulling over razors at an Albertson’s in San Gabriel, CA. Photo by the author.

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