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Re-educated, but not suppressed
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In a stone-walled courtyard of Sera monastery, westerners
gather to snap photos of teenaged Tibetan monks debating the finer
points of emptiness. The monks, in plum-coloured robes, hurl their
intellectual challenges with barbed laughter and kung fu lunges,
undistracted by tourists who gape from behind poplar trees.
Not far away, in the 15th-century monastery's assembly hall, and
out of the view of the tourists, a far more sinister test of wills
is beginning. For three months, 70 Chine...
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Dalai Lama says Tibet is better off within China China should keep Tibet to help us, says Dalai Lama.(Foreign News)
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; Byline: Justin Huggler in Delhi TIBET WOULD be better off to remain within China rather than regain its independence, the Dalai Lama has told an interviewer. Tibet is backward, the exiled spiritual leader said. It's a big land, rich in natural resources, but we lack the technology or expertise [to
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Dalai Lama says Tibet is better off within China
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; Tibet would be better off to remain within China rather than regain its independence, the Dalai Lama has told an interviewer. "Tibet is backward," the exiled spiritual leader said. "It's a big land, rich in natural resources, but we lack the technology or expertise [to exploit them]. So, if we
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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DALAI LAMA RELISHES SUPPORT FOR TIBET FROM U.S. MOVIES.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Hollywood's fascination with Tibet has given powerful public support to its cause in the West, the Dalai Lama says, but it may prompt China to tighten its grip on the kingdom. In an interview at a Buddhist monastery in a Tibetan refugee settlement near the north Indian town of Dehra Dun - a world
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Brooking no Dalai; Tibet; China's contacts with the Dalai Lama.(Asia)(some see a partial softening in the Chinese stance against Tibet)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; OUR struggle against the Dalai Lama clique is one between ourselves and the enemy in nature, a life-and-death class struggle. So says China's new Communist Party secretary in Tibet, Guo Jinlong. Yet watchers of Tibet think the appointment of Mr Guo marks an easing of China's treatment of its
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A Lama to The Globe: The Dalai Lama looks beyond Tibet, and meditates on his reincarnation as an ambassador of Buddhism.(International)
Newsweek
; In a small yellow temple off a rutted mountain road in northern India, a simple image of the Buddha gazes north, over the Himalayas, toward Tibet. It is dawn and across the courtyard of what was once a British colonial cantonment, the Dalai Lama is meditating on his eventual death and passage to
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