i WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (09TH TO 15TH NOVEMBER 2020) | Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Meeting Participants in This Year’s Sho-tön April 22, 2024 Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – This morning His

Teachings for Mongolians — Second Day April 20, 2024 Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Today, the clouds

The Hundred Deities of the Joyous Land April 19, 2024 Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – The sky was

Discussion with Groups from Harvard – Second Day April 9, 2024 Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – His Holiness the

Discussion with Groups from Harvard April 8, 2024 Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Prof Arthur Brooks

WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (09TH TO 15TH NOVEMBER 2020)

BDL MEDIA | November 16, 2020 |

Weekly Tibet News Digest is a collection of different articles, columns and Tibet related news in and outside Tibet published in various websites. The views expressed are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi.


HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

·         Launch of a Book on the Mind

·         Congratulating Nitish Kumar

·         His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s message for the 15th International Buddhist Conference in Seoul, South Korea

·         His Holiness the Dalai Lama warns terrible consequences of climate inaction, appeals world leaders to act now

TIBET TODAY & TIBETANS IN EXILE

·         President Sangay Meets US Amb. Juster

·         Sikyong congratulates Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and NDA party on election victory

·         Speaker Pema Jungney congratulates Bihar CM on the election victory

·         Conference on Tibetology and Buddology at the intersection of science and religion analyses effects of meditation on brain

·         TSGs campaign for boycott of Chinese products

·         Switzerland holds political dialogue with China, raises concerns on treatment of Tibetans in the backdrop of Swiss Ambassador’s visit to Tibet

·         CTA task force warns COVID spike in winter, advises against unnecessary travelling

THIRD GENEVA FORUM 2020

·         The Geneva Forum Declaration 2020

·         Third Geneva Forum 2020 begins deliberation on China’s policy on Freedom of Religion and its global impact– Inaugural Ceremony

·         Lawmakers, experts condemn China’s crackdown on religious freedom as ethnic genocide– Day 1 of Panel Session

·         Geneva Forum panelists analyses systematic religious persecution by Chinese Communist Party– Day 2 of Panel Session

·         Tibetan reincarnation rooted in belief system, Atheist Chinese Communist Party has no say or sway: Buddhist scholars – Day 3 of Panel Session

·         Swiss Foreign Policy Commission recommends Government to submit Report on Implementation of Human Rights Dialogue with China– Closing Note

·         Geneva Forum 2020 concludes: ‘Competition in Business and Confrontation on human rights the only way forward with China’– Concluding Ceremony

FEATURE & ARTICLES

·         The Tibet Factor in India-China Relations by Claude Arpi

·         ‘Buddha would be green’: Dalai Lama calls for urgent climate action by Krishnan Guru-Murthy

·         China begins work on railway up to Arunachal border by Ananth Krishnan

·         Beijing 2022 Olympics: Stop the ‘Genocide Games’ by Dorjee Tseten, Zumretay Arkin, Teng Biao and Frances Hui

·         Could China’s new dam plans unleash more trouble with India? by Kinling Lo and Keegan Elmer