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.”
An anonymous writer reports for Radio Free Asia on suspicions that agents of Burma’s junta may have infiltrated the Theravāda sangha in order to find out what kinds of pro-democracy activities the monks and nuns there may be up to.
