![]() Just days before the Kalachakra, Chinese troops reportedly showed their might at a disputed border between Tibet and Ladakh, repeatedly entering territory both countries claim. Holiness the Dalai Lama turning a charkha, a cotton spinning wheel used by Gandhi and his followers. The Tibetan spiritual leader remains a point of tension between India and China. Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking during an intimate dialogue with the participants of the 33rd World Congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom held in Koch, Kerala, Indian, on September 4th, 2010. ![]() He has since held Kalachakras every few years or so around the world – from India to New York. The Dalai Lama fled China in the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, settling in Dharamshala in northern India, where he set up the Tibetan government in exile. Despite this, several Tibetans told Al Jazeera that they crept over the border at night. The Dalai Lama also reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Muslims, in a speech to tens of thousands of devotees to mark his 79th birthday.Ĭhina reportedly deployed extra troops and cracked down on Tibetans travelling to attend the 12-day gathering that began on July 3. His Holiness the Dalai Lama prepares to address the gathering at an interfaith service at Shizuoka, Japan on November 22, 2013. The massive religious teaching, said to empower tens of thousands of his disciples to attain enlightenment, is a significant event for Buddhists.Ībout 150,000 devotees from around the world are flocking to the northern Ladakh district in India-administered Kashmir, which shares an eastern border with Tibet. Written in English by Richard Finney.Tibetans snuck into India dodging Chinese border guards to see their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, perform the 33rd Kalachakra for world peace in Shey, a tiny town nestled 3,400m-high in the Himalayas. ![]() In Lingkha Shi itself, over 20 Tibetans were detained in 2009 for protesting Chinese mining in the area, with one, Tsultrim Choephel, beaten to death by police, Tibet Express said, citing sources in the region.Īnd on April 19, a monk named Petruk, 23, was detained by police and killed while in custody, Tibet Express said. 4 report by the online Tibet Express noted that though the residents of Lingkha Shi live in Bathang county, they are also close to Kardze town, the site of repeated Tibetan protests challenging Chinese rule. Several thousand Tibetans, many on motorbikes, took part in the ceremony to welcome the young lama, the source said, adding, “Many displayed huge photos of the Dalai Lama on their motorbikes and paraded in the ceremony.”Īmong the photographs taken of the parade and sent to RFA, one picture shows a car carrying the banned Tibetan national flag on its hood.Ī Sept. 1, an enthronement ceremony for the tulku of Dudul Lingpa was organized at Changkar monastery in the Lingkha Shi subdivision of Bathang county in Kardze (in Chinese Ganzi) prefecture,” a Tibetan resident of the area told RFA, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet into exile in 1959 amid a failed national uprising against Chinese rule, is regarded by Chinese authorities as a dangerous separatist, and possession of his pictures often brings harsh punishment to those who display them. In a major show of defiance, Tibetans celebrating the enthronement of a local religious leader at the weekend paraded large photographs of the Dalai Lama in a restive Tibetan county in China’s Sichuan province, Tibetan sources said.
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