Thursday September 10, 2009, 3:55 am
thanks ben hes a great man and up against so much

Thursday September 10, 2009, 5:53 am
Thannnx Benny

Thursday September 10, 2009, 11:29 am
I love the Dalai Lama, thank you for helping us. Thx Ben

Thursday September 10, 2009, 12:18 pm
Thank you Ben.. Nice

Thursday September 10, 2009, 2:26 pm
A great soul !
Thanks, Bengt for posting.

Saturday September 12, 2009, 7:12 am
India refutes China's opposition to Dalai Lama's Arunachal visit
(Phayul, September 12, 2009)
Dharamsala, – India has played down Chinese opposition to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit in November to Arunachal Pradesh, the north eastern Indian state where Beijing lays claim on about 90,000 square kilometer of it as Chinese territory.
Reacting to Chinese foreign ministry’s "strong concern" that it "further reveals the Dalai clique's anti-China and separatist essence", India played it down saying the 74 year old Tibetan leader is free to travel anywhere within India.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu had said, "We firmly oppose Dalai visiting the so-called 'Arunachal Pradesh'."

The Tibetan leader’s private secretary has said the visit is purely religious. "He is going there for teaching. This has nothing to do with politics, there is nothing political about it," Chime R. Chhoekyapa had said. The Tibetan leader had visited the state several times in the past but China had not opposed.
Incursions into Indian territory were reported recently in Ladakh where boulders were found painted red with Chinese scripts.
In the past, China had even objected the Indian prime minister and president visiting Arunachal Pradesh. China also blocked a $60 million loan that India sought from the Asian Development Bank for development projects in Arunachal Pradesh.

Analysts say the Tibetan leader’s visit will prove a reassertion of Arunachal being an Indian territory and will benefit India.
Arunachal has a substantial Buddhist population. Tawang in Arunachal is believed by the Tibetan Buddhists as the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama Tsayang Gyatso.
The Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Dorjee Khandu, met the Tibetan leader in January this year at a religious congregation in Varanasi.

Saturday September 12, 2009, 7:15 am
China to "Strike Hard" in Tibet ahead of 60th Anniversary. (Phayul)
Dharamsala, September 12
– China will launch a renewed “Strike Hard” campaign in Tibet ahead of the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October, an official report on Xizang Re bao(Tibet Daily) said.
The Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Zhang Qingli, through a videoconference, asked his party members, government officials and security officials to deliver “proper delegation of roles of the concerned officials at all levels to strengthen cooperation, work closely together to maintain stability in the region and to ensure a smooth National Day celebrations.”

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy expressed concerns that the “Strike Hard’ campaign will be used by China to quell any form of dissent through violent means. Though China claims the main objective of the so-called “Strike Hard” campaign is to secure stability the centre says the Chinese authorities will abuse the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people by resorting to arbitrary arrests and detention. The centre also fears authorities will target former Tibetan political prisoners who might be asked to leave Lhasa ahead of the celebrations.
Zhang, who earlier last year called the Dalai Lama a “wolf in monk’s robes”, lauded the Party members and security forces for the success in suppressing ‘riots’ and securing stability post March 14, 2008. He called for more efforts in ‘checking and defeating the ‘Dalai clique’ and ‘separatists’ forces outside’.

"Strike Hard" (Ch: Yanda) campaign was initiated in China in 1983 to reduce crime and fight corruption within China but later evolved into a political tool of oppression, especially in Tibet where political dissent and anti government sentiments are quelled with the "Strike Hard" campaign.
The last “Strike Hard” campaign lasted for 42-days from its day of launch, 18 January 2009, during which a total of 5,766 Tibetans were rounded up for questioning, according to the centre. No official figure, however, was made available of Tibetans released, sentenced or detained.