Lhasa

...brains behind the TV show - 'dead good' according to Stephen Fry. Stranger than fiction: a Buddhist monk watches a pilgrimage in Lhasa, the setting for 'Lobsang Rampa's' literary hoaxes. The author had never left England Last laugh:...

In this article: Hans Christian Andersen, QI, Diego Rivera, Frida, Leon Trotsky, John Lloyd, Dog, and William Buckland

...claim to Tibet has always been an underlying issue. Beginning in 1987 the Chinese had a setback. After a brutal crackdown in Lhasa in which the photograph of a dead Tibetan child in his grief-stricken father's arms appeared on the...

In this article: Tibet, Beijing, Chinese Communist Party, Barack Obama, People's Republic of China, Dalai Lama, Ronald Reagan, and Acquiescence

Yak-butter lamps, murmuring monks, prayer wheels, prostrating pilgrims - you don't have to be interested in Buddhism to visit Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, but it helps. Buddhist temples and rituals, monks and...

In this article: Potala Palace, Buddhism, Tibet, Chengdu, Dalai Lama, Jokhang, Pizza, and Tax

...China. Tashi, a woman she met at the post office, brought her home and moved her in with her family. By the time Sam returned to Lhasa in 2007, much had changed. The controversial Sky Train was connecting Tibet to the rest of China. Lhasa...

In this article: Tibet, China, University of Washington Press, Dalai Lama, and New Year's Eve

...have shut it down several times over the past few years. Last year, mass anti-government protests broke out in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and in Tibetan communities in surrounding provinces. The occasionally violent demonstrations were...

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...he prove that he did not support Tibetan independence. Relations have been particularly tense this year after large scale riots in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, in which hundreds of shops were torched and Chinese civilians were attacked.

In this article: Barack Obama, Dalai Lama, Hu Jintao, People's Republic of China, Tibet, Beijing, Washington, United States, Taiwan, and Allegation

...mourn the execution of Tibetans by the Chinese Oct 20. China has reportedly executed four Tibetans for taking part in the unrest in Lhasa last year. The memorial service, which will go on till Nov 2, is being organised by 10 Tibetan...

In this article: Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Tibet, India, China, and Lobsang Gyaltsen

Beijing, Oct. 29 : China has sufficient evidence to prove that last year's Lhasa riots were masterminded and incited by Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a vice minister of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) has claimed. We...

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...according to the International Campaign for Tibet. China has confirmed the executions. The group said the Tibetans were executed in Lhasa but did not say when. Other Tibetan rights groups have said the executions were carried out last...

In this article: International Campaign for Tibet, Lobsang Gyaltsen, Tibet, and China

...link to other main sections from here Tibetan exiles have reported the first executions of those convicted for last year's riot in Lhasa, with at least two people put to death in a rare implementation of capital punishment in the restive...

In this article: Dalai Lama, Lobsang Gyaltsen, Tibet, Beijing, Democracy, Anxiety, and Taleban