Opinions
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Karmapa Talks On Buddhism And Eating Meat
On the 6th day of the Spring teachings of Gyalwang Karmapa in Sarnath, he discussed about the core issue of whether a buddhist practitioner eat meat. He also clarified the incorrect meaning of his suggestion for people to stop eating meat that he made few years ago at a Kagyu Monlam.
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Tibet’s Political Status Led To Tibetology Shut Down?
Last week, the Tibetology or Tibet Studies Department of the University of Copenhagen was shut down leaving the associate professor Jan-Ulrich Sobisch jobless and 12 students associated with the department deprived of the opportunity. According to the university post, when the department was defunded by the Danish government, the university decided to dismiss the department.…
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Tibetan Girl Writes Heart Touching Thank You India Letter
Dear India, I am a child of this land, yet I don’t belong here. I am sorry I feel this way but that is the truth. Long ago, my grandparents left Tibet and came to India. As refugees, they lived in poverty at a road construction site in Manali and as they built new roads,…
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Om Mani Padme Hung Explanation By His Holiness
Buddhism is a religion that is based mainly on the use of Human intelligence in reasoning the whole system of the religion and implementing it. Buddhism is not about just the complete faith and believing in the god blindly. This is the sort of explanation I perceived from the introductory note given by His Holiness…
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Tsai Ing-wen Swept Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) swept Taiwan in both 2016 presidential and parliamentary election with 56.12 percent of the votes. Eric Chu of ruling Kuomintang candidate conceded his party’s defeat and wished Ms. Tsai good luck. President Tsai’s election indicates the growing feeling among people in Taiwan on their identity as Taiwanese…
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India Could Have Prevented China From Taking Over Tibet
India was in a very strong position during start of the invasion to defend the interest of Tibet and India’s security just for the sake of pleasing the Chinese leadership. It explains “It is not widely known that in 1950, China could have been prevented from taking over Tibet.
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Why Chinese Can Never Fully Populate Tibet
The Tibetans have higher birth weights because the babies are growing more normally in utero,” Moore explained. “We think that’s a result of having greater blood flow to the uterine circulation. And babies who are more normal-sized at birth have a greater chance of survival postnatally.
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The Imploding Youth of Tibet
We Tibetans sometimes tend to lose our minds of the fact that we are at a critical juncture which does not allow any experimentations. As soon as a Tibetan youth is ready for practical field, they should engage into anything but Tibetan cause and there is no better source of experience for Tibetans than this.…
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Portrait of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Ama Dolma la(name changed) is in her 70s, but she had been standing continuously for an hour, by holding a half burnt candle tightly in her hand, though the flame on that doesn’t seem to be so strong as the one inside her. However she was standing still among the dozens of Tibetan youth who…
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Five Facts that shame the Tragic Nepal Earthquake
25th April, 2015 was the day that shook the tranquility of normal livelihood of the Himalayan nations with an inevitable 7.9 pitcher scale magnitude earth quake. The whole affected region lying along the ranges of the Himalayas having based on feeble infrastructures was an easy target for the aggressive vibrations of the earth. The death…