Tibet News (5.1.09)

by Danny Fisher

Here’s the latest Tibet news:

  • Phayul reports that “Chinese authorities in Nagchu County, Nagchu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, have secretly detained three Tibetan Buddhist monks.”
  • The Associated Press reports that His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed “optimism about the Obama Administration and about his own eventual return to his native Tibet after 50 years in exile” while visiting Cambridge, MA.
  • The Religion News Service also reports that, while in Cambridge, His Holiness was present for the opening of MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values.