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Tibet: Monks Against Forced "Re-Education"
World  (tags: tibet, china, monks )

Dagmar
- 595 days ago - buddhistchannel.tv
An unknowns number of Buddhist monks have been arrested in Tibet for having oppose the forced "re-education" campaign launched by the Chinese orientated authorities
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Buddhist Monks Won't Be Punished: Tibet Governor
World  (tags: tibet, monks, governor )

Dagmar
- 616 days ago - buddhistchannel.tv
The Chinese-installed vice-governor of Tibet says the Buddhist monks who disrupted a tour of Lhasa by foreign journalists on Thursday won't be punished.
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Sign Petition: Stop China's Crackdown on Tibet!
World  (tags: tibet, china, Human Rights, crackdown, protests, monks, Dalai Lama, Olympic Games 2008, United Nations )

Rosa
- 627 days ago - go.care2.com
Violence against protesters, monks and civilians in Tibet is quickly escalating as the deadly crackdown continues. Sign this Care2 petition to the Olympic Games Officials and the United Nations to make sure help is on the way for the people of Tibet!
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Show Support for Tibetans Protesting Inside Tibet
World  (tags: tibet, monks, china, dissent, bjork, protest, support )

Ratty
- 631 days ago - studentsforafreetibet.org
Go here and see the many ways you can do something to help these people. Also watch watch the Guardian's video footage of pop star singer Bjork backing Tibet's independence at her concert in Shanghai, China on Sunday and see Olympics protest.
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Tibetan Monks in Critical Condition After Attempted Suicide, as Protests Mount
World  (tags: tibet, tibetan, monks, suicide, protests, china, lhasa, freedoms, human rights, civil liberties )

Vanessa
- 632 days ago - phayul.com
Two Tibetan Buddhist monks are in critical condition after stabbing their wrists and chests amid mounting anti-Chinese protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, according to authoritative sources in the region.
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Monks Arrested as Police Quash Protests in Tibet: Report
World  (tags: human rights, china, tibet, protest, monks, freedom )

Vanessa
- 634 days ago - phayul.com
A Chinese policeman gesture to stop photos being taken of Tibetan monks at the famous Potala Palace in Lhasa
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Tibetans Arrested in Tibet Under Fear of Torture and Inhuman Treatment: TCHRD
World  (tags: human rights, torture, tibet, china, lhasa, monks )

Vanessa
- 634 days ago - phayul.com
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), based in Dharamsala, expressed its "deepest fear that the arrestees from the incidences on 10 March 2008 will be dealt with torture and extreme inhumane treatment in the detention centres."
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Pro-Tibet Protest Results in Arrest of Tibetans in Lhasa: Source
World  (tags: protest, monks, buddhist, tibet, china, lhasa, human rights, freedoms )

Vanessa
- 634 days ago - phayul.com
Several monks from Drepung Monastery had been arrested today when hundreds of monks from the monastery made attempts to go to Lhasa. Armed police forces have been deployed in the monastery.
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Monks in Tibet Go on Hunger Strike as Protests Spread
World  (tags: tibet, china, protest, hunger strike, monks, human rights, freedom of expression, imprisonment, arrest, torture )

Vanessa
- 634 days ago - phayul.com
Tibetan monks have gone on hunger strike to demand the release of protesters detained during the region's biggest demonstrations in almost 20 years, support groups said today.
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Tibetan Monks Warned To Return to Monastery
World  (tags: tbet, monks, china, nepal, kathmandu, maoists )

Dagmar
- 637 days ago - rfa.org
KATHMANDU--Chinese authorities in China's western Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have given protesting monks until March 8 to return to Jesho Baikar monastery or face "serious consequences," Tibetan sources say.
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Monks and Tigers and More - Burning Bright
World  (tags: tigers, monks, buddhism, thailand )

Dagmar
- 649 days ago - buddhistchannel.tv
Either she likes it or I'm dead. I'm crouched next to a magnificent Indo-Chinese tiger at the Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Thailand. Try saying that three times quickly; not surprisingly, it's better known as the "Tiger Temple".
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Japan's Monks Take Buddhism to Bars
World  (tags: beer, buddhism, japan, monks, bars, drink )

Cissy
- 711 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In societies where life is busier than ever, where cities are swelling and families dispersed, the religious rituals of yesterday do not seem so relevant. But in Japan, a group of Buddhist monks are trying to change that.
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The Silence of the Monasteries
World  (tags: Burma/Myanmar, monks, temples, pagodas, HumanRights, asia, freedoms, government, religion, UnitedNations )

Lisa
- 748 days ago - newsweek.com
The junta has stopped the protests. The big question now is where have all the monks gone? In spite of the religious significance of Burma's pagodas, the number of monks at these sites has dropped dramatically since the September crackdown
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Monks March Again Despite Arrests
World  (tags: myanmar, Myanmar-Burma, myanmar junta burma, monks, protest, protests, arrests )

Angel
- 760 days ago - arcamax.com
Monks march again despite arrests YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 5 Myanmar's Buddhist monks continued to defy the military regime by taking to the streets for the second time since a crackdown in late September. Around 100 monks staged a peaceful protest Saturday
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Breaking News: MONKS Return to Streets of BURMA!
World  (tags: monks, burma, returning to Burma, protests, Pakkoku )

Kristmas
- 767 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
More than 100 monks have marched in central Burma, the first time they have returned to the streets since last month's bloody crackdown on protests. The monks chanted and prayed as they marched through Pakkoku...
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