Four Tibetan community leaders in Kathmandu were detained yesterday (October 17) by Nepalese police following a speech by China’s Ambassador to Nepal Yang Houlan on Sunday (October 16) in which he b »continue
* Paramilitary occupation of Kirti monastery continues
* Monks flee due to climate of fear and rigorous patriotic education campaign
* China claims detained monks undergoing "legal education" following UN complaint»continue
WHEN I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best — and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naïve I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today. »continue