Tibet
China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity Toughened
hrw.org

Scrap Limits on Former Officials’ Freedom of Religion.  A Chinese Communist Party notice banning retired Tibetan government employees from taking part in religious activities violates China’s commitment to religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today. The notice obtained by Human Rights Watch is undated but appears to have been issued in early August 2019. The notice requires all Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) government and party offices in charge of retired government employees – regardless of whether those retirees are party members – to submit a list by August 18 of any “retired personnel performing the kora,” the Tibetan practice of (...)

India
Dalai Lama: Vorrei tornare in Tibet prima di morire
AsiaNews

Il capo spirituale del buddismo tibetano è fuggito da Lhasa durante la rivolta del 1959. Pechino lo considera un “lupo travestito da agnello”. Donald Trump “è uguale a Xi Jinping: non ha mai chiesto d’incontrarmi”. -- Il popolo tibetano “ha fiducia in me e mi chiede di tornare in Tibet”. Lo afferma il Dalai Lama, capo spirituale del buddismo tibetano, in un’intervista diffusa oggi dalla Bbc. (...)

Nepal
As Everest Melts, Bodies Are Emerging From the Ice

The New York Times

(Bhadra Sharma and Kai Schultz) A few years ago, Kami Rita Sherpa, a veteran climber and guide, met with a gruesome sight at Mount Everest Base Camp. Human bones poked from the ground, smooth and ice-crusted. It was not a fluke. Subsequent seasons yielded more remains — a skull, fingers, parts of legs. Guides increasingly believe that their findings fit into a broader development on the world’s highest mountain: A hotter climate has been unearthing climbers who never made it home. “Snow is melting and bodies are surfacing,” said Mr. Sherpa, who has summited Everest 24 times, a world record. “Finding bones has become the new normal for us.” In the last few seasons, climbers say they have seen more bodies lying on the icy slopes of Everest (...)

A medida que el Everest se derrite, los cuerpos resurgen del hielo

India
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama hospitalized with chest infection
CNN

(James Griffiths and Sugam Pokharel) The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized with a chest infection, but is in a stable condition, his aides said Tuesday. The 83-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk had returned to his home of Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas, from a meeting with youth leaders in New Delhi when he felt "some discomfort," his private secretary Tenzin Taklha told CNN. (...) 

(it) Delhi, il Dalai Lama ricoverato in ospedale per un’infezione polmonare (AsiaNews)  

Tibet
El dalái lama, sesenta años fuera del Tíbet

The New York Times

(Agus Morales) Este 10 de marzo se cumplen sesenta años de las revueltas que cambiaron la historia del Tíbet para siempre y convirtieron al actual dalái lama en uno de los refugiados más ilustres del mundo. ¿Qué futuro le espera a su causa?  Hace seis décadas, una compañía de danza china cambió la historia del Tíbet para siempre. El Gobierno de Mao Zedong invitó a Tenzin Gyatso, que por aquel entonces tenía 23 años, a una obra de baile tradicional que debía celebrarse el 10 de marzo de 1959 en el cuartel del Ejército chino en Lhasa. El Tíbet ya llevaba ocho años bajo control chino: durante aquellos años, Tenzin Gyatso —así se llama el XIV dalái lama, el actual— había intentado negociar la autonomía de la región con Mao, pero la vía del diálogo no estaba funcionando. En Lhasa se corrió la voz de que aquella obra aparentemente inocente era una trampa de China para secuestrar al líder espiritual tibetano. (...)

Cina
Chinese official insists no love for Dalai Lama in Tibet
AP - Miami Herald

China's Communist Party chief in Tibet insisted Wednesday that the Tibetan people feel more affection toward the government than to the region's traditional Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled following an abortive uprising against Chinese rule nearly 60 years ago. (...) 

(fr) Le Dalaï-Lama n'a rien fait pour son peuple, selon le Parti communiste chinois (AFP - La Presse) 

Cina

Crisis of faith - Tibetan Catholics face modernity in China village
Reuters

(Joyce Zhou and Christian Shepherd) Ruanna, a 77-year-old Tibetan woman living in a remote Chinese village overlooking the Mekong river, says her Catholic faith has never been in doubt. "Since birth, I have attended church and read holy scriptures in Tibetan," Ruanna said in her home of Cizhong, where Christmas celebrations are on par with Lunar New Year festivities. Despite the devotion of older Catholics, church leaders and some parents say it is less so among younger villagers. (...)

India
Muslim nations must learn about religion from India: Dalai Lama

timesofindia

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday said Muslim countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Syria should learn about religion from India so that there is peace in the world."There are various religions and traditions in India having population of over 125 crore. Muslim countries should learn from India. so that there is peace. There is coordination among all the religions here and due to non-violence principle, modern India is developing," the Dalai Lama told reporters during a brief interaction here. (...)

Tibet
Il Tibet piange Palden Gyatso, difensore della libertà
AsiaNews

Il monaco ha passato 33 anni nelle prigioni cinesi. Non ha mai voluto rinnegare la fedeltà al Dalai Lama. Ha trascorso l’esilio a denunciare le torture compiute dal dominio cinese. -- Il popolo del Tibet piange il lama Palden Gyatso, scomparso ieri all’età di 85 anni in un ospedale di Dharamsala (India). Il monaco era sopravvissuto a 33 anni di torture nelle carceri cinesi per non aver mai voluto rinnegare il Dalai Lama. (...)

Tibet
Tibet, se le immolazioni non fanno più notizia
Mondo e Missione

(Stefano Vecchia) Il Tibet è una realtà di cui il mondo va dimenticandosi, nonostante la diaspora di centinaia di migliaia di tibetani in molti Paesi e l’instancabile ruolo di testimone dell’ottantatreenne XIV Dalai Lama -- Qualche giorno fa con il suicidio di un ventitreenne nella prefettura autonoma di Qian e Ngaka sono saliti a 153 (...)

Tibet
Buddhist monks to consider whether Dalai Lama should reincarnate
RNS

(Meagan Clark and Vishal Arora)  Tibetan Buddhist monks from around the world are gearing up to discuss whether the aging Dalai Lama should reincarnate — and, if he does, then how to prevent Beijing from claiming that Tibet’s next spiritual leader will reincarnate in China. The monks had been scheduled to congregate in the Himalayas of northern India this week to deliberate on the issue at the 13th Religious Conference on Tibetan Buddhism beginning Thursday (...)

Stati Uniti
In a troubling time for Catholics, Thomas Keating was an inspiration

The Boston Globe

(Margery Eagan) Late last month Thomas Keating, a Catholic spiritual giant, died at age 95. Most Catholics have no idea who he was, which is our loss. Catholics need some spiritual uplift about now. The sex abuse cover-up rages on. Catholic culture wars divide us as surely as Donald Trump divides America: conservatives cling to rules; liberals want none. We’d all like more inspiration and Masses where the music won’t make you cringe. But Thomas Keating was about something else entirely: deepening faith, a joyful faith. That was central to his teaching, his many books, and to Contemplative Outreach, the organization he founded in the 1980s which now claims tens of thousands of adherents in 39 countries. (...)

Rev. Thomas Keating, Pioneer in Contemplative Movement, Dies at 95 (Katharine Q. Seelye, Oct. 28, 2018, The New York Times)

Tibet
Dalai Lama: Successor could be chosen via method similar to selection of pope

The Mainichi

The Dalai Lama, the exiled supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said Nov. 5 that the selection of his successor could be done in a way the pope is selected by the Catholic Church in an election by cardinals. "The kind of pope system is ... possible to choose among the high lama, or high scholars," the 83-year-old Dalai Lama said in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun and other media outlets. He said naming his successor by himself is "also possible," explaining that there were some precedents of past leaders making selections while they were still alive.  (...)

Tibet
A Tibetan view of the Vatican's agreement with China
UCA News

(Sang Jieja) After years of negotiations, the Vatican and China finally announced in late September that a consensus had been reached on the appointment of Chinese bishops and the two sides signed a provisional agreement. As a Tibetan bystander, I wasn't optimistic about the agreement. I have been subjected to violations by the Chinese government for more than 60 years. (...)

Paesi Bassi
Aware about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since 1990s: Dalai Lama
Deccan Chronicle - AFP

The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he has known about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since the 1990s and that such allegations are "nothing new". The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, made the admission during a four-day visit to the Netherlands, where he met on Friday with victims of sexual abuse allegedly committed by Buddhist teachers. (...) 

(fr) Le Dalaï Lama était au courant d'agressions sexuelles commises par des enseignants boudhistes  (AFP - La Presse)

Tibet
China bans minors in Tibet from religious events

UcaNews

(Song Jieja) Beijing tightens screws to keep young generations de-rooted from traditional culture while flooding province with Han Chinese. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted various means to instill the idea in native Tibetans that their traditional culture and religion are backwards, barbaric and based on superstitious beliefs. In its latest attempt to keep a new generation of Tibetans estranged from their culture, the CCP (...)

Tibet
Tibet: incendio in monastero buddista, ignote le cause
Ansa

Un incendio è scoppiato nel più importante santuario del buddismo tibetano, il monastero Jokhang nella città di Lhasa, patrimonio dell'Unesco. Lo riferisce la Bbc online. Le immagini trasmesse da varie tv mostrano l'edificio avvolto dalle fiamme e quella che appare come una pagoda sventrata. Non si segnalano vittime.  (...) 

(en) Sacred Tibetan monastery catches fire, no reports of casualties (Reuters)

Cina
Meeting Dalai Lama major offence, China warns world leaders
PTI - The Hindu

China today warned that it would consider as a “major offence” if any country or foreign leader hosts or meets the Dalai Lama as it deems the Tibetan spiritual leader a “separatist” trying to split Tibet from it. China routinely protests world leaders meeting the Dalai Lama. It also makes it mandatory for all the foreign governments to recognise Tibet as part of China to have diplomatic relations with Beijing.(...)

Italia
Il Dalai Lama: "L'uso sbagliato della religione è distruttivo. Un vero musulmano non uccide mai"
HuffPost

Il messaggio è stato lanciato a Palermo durante la Conferenza sull'educazione alla gioia. "Trump si interessi del riscaldamento globale" -- "Anche l'uso sbagliato della religione può essere distruttivo. Denominare un certo tipo di religione come terrorismo è sbagliato. Il terrorismo è qualcosa che fa male agli altri e se fa male agli altri, non non sei più buddista, non sei più musulmano. Un vero musulmano mai uccide, un vero buddista mai uccide. (...)

Tibet
Il Dalai Lama difende i Rohingya: «Buddha li avrebbe aiutati»
Corriere della Sera

(Monica Ricci Sargentini) «Buddha avrebbe sicuramente aiutato i rohingya». Il Dalai Lama interviene sulla tragedia in corso nello Stato di Rakhine, in Birmania dove centinaia di migliaia di musulmani fuggono verso il Bangladesh. La guida spirituale dei tibetani in esilio era ieri a Londonderry, in Irlanda del Nord, per le celebrazioni del 20/o anniversario della organizzazione umanitaria Children in Crossfire ha voluto parlare in favore del milione di persone di origine bengalese da anni senza cittadinanza, per lo più confinate in campi-ghetto, senza accesso a lavoro, scuola e sanità, nella regione più povera della Birmania, il Rakhine. (...)