"The legacy of the Dalai Lama “will live forever” and nobody will give Chinese President Xi Jinping any credit." --US politican, Nancy Pelosi at a US congress delegation meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama (June 2024) "Over the last few decades in exile, there has been a conscious and continuing project to conflate “Tibetan Buddhism”… Continue reading THE MONGOLIAN-GELUG SHADOW OVER TIBET: Six decades of failed US-Gelug policy
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THE STRUGGLE FOR A MODERN TIBET: Anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day (Mangtso Duchen) and the ideals of a liberal, ‘free speech’, secular democracy
Today, the 2nd September is the 63rd anniversary of the officially declared day, widely known within the Tibetan exile community as Tibetan Democracy Day, Mangsto Duchen (‘Mangsto’: democracy; ‘Duchen’: occasion). It marks the founding of Tibetan democracy by the Central Tibetan government in exile (CTA), based in Dharamsala, India, which governs over 1 million Tibetan… Continue reading THE STRUGGLE FOR A MODERN TIBET: Anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day (Mangtso Duchen) and the ideals of a liberal, ‘free speech’, secular democracy