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TIBETAN Bulletin THE OFFICIAL JO URNAL O F T HE CEN T RAL TIBE T AN ADMINISTRATION Volume 16, Issue 4 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2012 FOCUS Resolutions and Statements from Different Countries on Self-immolations in Tibet P-12 DOCUMENTATION Special International Meeting of Tibet Support Groups: P-10 FEATURE Global Solidarity Day for Tibet Observed across the World P-22 WORLD PRESS Tibet Is the Test of China’s Rise P-28 www.tibet.net/en/tibbul TIBE T AN MEDIA Sheja (Official Tibetan monthly) NewsTibet Department of Information & International 241 E. 32nd Street Relations, Dharamshala-176215, HP, India New York, NY 10016 Email: [email protected] Web: www.tibetoffice.org Web: www.bod.asia Tibet Bulletin (Official Chinese bi-monthly) Tibetan Freedom (Official Tibetan weekly) Department of Information & International Department of Information & International Relations, Dharamshala-176 215, HP, India Relations, Dharamshala-176215, HP, India Email: [email protected] TIBETAN Email: [email protected] Web: www.xizang-zhiye.org Web: www.bod.asia www.tibetonline.tv BULLETIN Contacts for the Central Tibetan Administration NEEDS YOU INDIA kaya - 14 Moscow 127015, Russia Department of Information & International Tel: +7-495-786-4362 Fax: +7-495-685-11-32 Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Email: [email protected] Web: www.savetibet.ru Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala - 176 215 H.P., India Tel: +91-1892-222510/222457 SWITZERLAND AN APPEAL Fax: +91-1892-224957 Email: [email protected] The Tibet Bureau, Place de la Navigation 10 1201 Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41-22-7387-940 Fax: +41-22-7387-941 Email: [email protected] Bureau of H.H. the Dalai Lama, 10-B Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi 110 024, India Tibetan Bulletin promotes awareness and Tel:+91-11-26474798, Fax:+91-11-2646-1914 UNITED KINGDOM provides facts of the situation in Tibet and Email: [email protected] The Office of Tibet, 1 Culworth Street, London, Tibetans in exile. 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TPiE’s Statement on 23rd Anniversary of Conferment of Nobel Tibetan Bulletin is an official bi-monthly Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama journal of the Central Tibetan Admin- 10. Special International Meeting of Tibet Support Groups: istration. Concluding statement Focus 12. Resolutions and Statements from Different Countries on Self-immolations in Tibet Signed articles or quotations do not nec- essarily reflect the views of the Central Fact Sheet Tibetan Administration. Contributions are welcome and may be addressed to 16. Fact Sheet on Self-Immolation Incidents in Tibet the editor, Tibetan Bulletin. However the (27 February 2009 - 31 December 2012) publisher regrets its inability to return unused articles unless they are accom- panied by a self-addressed envelope with Feature adequate postage. Tibetan Bulletin is distributed free of 22. Global Solidarity Day for Tibet Observed across the World charge.To subscribe please email the cir- 24. The Truth Will Set Us Free 26. An Appeal to President Xi Jinping from the International culation manager or see page 2. Tibetan Studies Community 27. Monk’s testimony gives insight into causes behind self- Editor immolations in Tibet Tenzin Jamchhen Email: [email protected] Layout & Design World Press Dorjee Tsering Circulation Manager 28. Tibet Is the Test of China’s Rise Dawa Norbu --by Dr. Lobsang Sangay Email: [email protected] 29. Tibet Is Burning Tibetan Bulletin is published by: --by Xu Zhiyong Department of Information and 30. Many Chinese Intellectuals Are Silent Amid a Wave of Tibetan International Relations, Self-Immolations Central Tibetan Administration, --by Andrew Jacobs Dharamshala- 176 215 H.P. India Tel: +91-1892-222510 / 222457 Vol. 16, Issue 4 REGULARS November - December 2012 CO N T AC T ADDRESS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 NEWSBRIEF _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _4 LIS T O F B oo KS F O R SALE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _32 NEWSBRIEF His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches staged hunger strike on 26 November to Chabcha (Ch: Gonghe) in Tsolho, north- at three monastic seats show solidarity with all their brethren eastern Tibet, thousands of students of who self-immolated for the cause of Ti- Sorig Lobling medical school, took to bet, and those who are facing unbearable the streets and raised slogans demanding suffering under the Chinese repression. equality, freedom and leadership change. The hunger strike began from Tibet’s In an ensuing crackdown by armed po- capital Lhasa to Drakgo, Jomda, Dzach- lice and security forces, many Tibetan ukha, Tridu, Serthar, Siling, Karze and students were reportedly severely in- Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province. jured and taken to the local hospital. Tibetans from all walks of life, including Eight students, all below the age of 23, teachers, government officials, writers, were reportedly sentenced to five years monks and businessmen took part in the in prison. hunger strike. China Sentences Nun to 3 Years in For more details on self-immolation, Jail, Arrests 7 Monks in Crackdown please check the Fact-sheet over Self-immolations H.H the Dalai Lama being presented with traditional offerings at the main prayer hall of Massive Students' Protests and Ar- Drepung monastery Photo OHHDL rests in Tibet At the request of H.E Ling Choktrul Rinpoche and Gaden Shartse monastery, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave four- teen days of teaching on the 18 Great stages of the Path (Tib: Lam Rim) Com- mentaries including Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment (Tib: Jangchup Lamdron), Tsong Khapa’s Great, Middle and Concise Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib: Lamrim Chenmo, Lamrim Dringpo and Lamrim Dudon), and 14 other classic texts at the Gaden and Drepung monastery in Mund- Schoolchildren during peaceful protest in Re- The Chinese government has sentenced god Tibetan settlement, Karnataka, from bgong in Amdo on 9 November 2012 Photo- a Tibetan nun, Chemey, to 3 years in 30 November – 13 December 2012. His TCHRD prison in Karze for her alleged role in Holiness will continue these teachings at Following a death of a Tibetan youth af- political activities. Sera monastery in Bylakuppe in 2013. ter self-immolation protest in Rebgong Chemey, fom the Lamdrag nunnery, was Self-immolation Continues in Tibet on 8 November 2012, around 5,000 Ti- among many Tibetans who was arrested betan students from across Malho prefec- during the Chinese government’s crack- The fiery protest of self-immolation con- ture, studying in four different schools in down on Tibetans regardless of whether tinues in Tibet as 33 Tibetans set them- Rebgong (Ch: Tongren) in north-eastern or not they had any role in 2010 protest selves on fire in November and Decem- Tibet held a peaceful demonstration on at Karze, eastern Tibet.
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    STORM IN THE GRASSLANDS Self-immolations in Tibet and Chinese policy A report by the International Campaign for Tibet Washington, DC l Amsterdam l Berlin l London l Brussels www.savetibet.org STORM IN THE GRASSLANDS Self-immolations in Tibet and Chinese policy A report by the International Campaign for Tibet Washington, DC l Amsterdam l Berlin l London l Brussels www.savetibet.org Mourning A poem by Tibetan blogger, Sengdor, published online in October, 2011 The sadness of living is more painful than death/[…] Look at the smoke rising from the monastery’s golden roof Look at the doors of each monk’s cell In every moment After a storm bursts on one grassland Another storm bursts on the other grassland Following the direction of the wind Dark shadows move accordingly “To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance.” Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, in a letter to Dr Martin Luther King, 1965 Cover details ‘Self-immolation’ – a painting by Tashi Norbu, Tibetan artist based in Amsterdam, by kind permission of the artist. The work expresses the dual hope that the self-immolators’ sacrifice will lead to their religious realization of ultimate reality, through burning away ignorance, and also ‘burn away’ the conventional reality of oppression. A Tibetan pilgrim with flowers. Troops are visible as Tibetan pilgrims gather at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa in September, 2012. At the Jokhang temple, one of Tibet’s holiest sites, Tibetan pilgrims face intense security, with a constant presence of troops and airport-style scanners now in operation.
  • Delivering Service and Support

    Delivering Service and Support

    THE TIBET FUND YEARS SPECIAL REPORT HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA 1 SIKYONG Dr. LOBSANG SANGAY Senator Dianne Feinstein 2 3 Program (KAP) was initiated to address and nunneries as well as cultural None of our work would have been the unmet medical, educational, and institutions such as the Tibetan possible without the support of our economic needs of Tibetans in Tibet. Institute for Performing Arts, Library partners, individual donors, grants PRESIDENT With funding from private donors, TTF for Tibetan Works and Archives, and from foundations, and major funding RINCHEN DHARLO built Chushul Orphanage and funded Nepal Lhamo Association. from the US Department of State’s two other children’s homes. TTF also Bureau of Population, Refugees and funded the construction of Lhasa Eye In 1997, we initiated the Blue Book Migration and Bureau of Education Center and sponsored several surgical Project, which is seen as an effective and Cultural Affairs, The Office of eyes camps restoring more than 2,000 way for individuals to support the Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of sights. KAP at that time has won the Tibetan people. From 1997 to 2015, Educational and Cultural Affairs, support and confidence of Tibetan TTF has raised a total of over $310,000 and the USAID. We would like to authorities at the highest levels both in from individual donors and transferred express our deepest gratitude to the perSOnal Tibet and in exile and has successfully that fund to the Central Tibetan US Congress and Administration, reflections provided resources and training for Administration. Establishment of the whose continued support and belief education and health projects in Tibet Tibetan Sponsorship Program in 1999 in our mission has provided critical as well as in mainland China and study has also been very satisfying.