Please join Solidarity with Tibet

Please join us as we stand in Solidarity with Tibet on the occasion of Human Rights Day, on 10 December 2012. Everyone around the world can attend this virtual event, so invite your friends. https://www.facebook.com/events/539586492737526/

The situation in Tibet is worsening daily under the oppressive grip of the government of the People’s Republic of China. It is time to stand in solidarity with

 Tibetans and their struggle for human rights. www.solidaritywithtibet.org

How to attend the virtual event on 10 December 2012:

(1) Update your profile picture on Facebook to the "Solidarity with Tibet 10 DEC 2012" image, which you can find below.

(2) Post a status on Facebook containing the words “Solidarity with Tibet” and set the location of your status to Lhasa, Tibet: Potala Palace, Lhasa.

(3) Join our Thunderclap! We have partnered with Thunderclap, so that our message will be heard loud and clear around the world on 10 December 2012 (Human Rights Day). Please support our Thunderclap with your Facebook and/or Twitter account(s), and we will all share a synchronized message of #SolidarityWithTibet on 10 Dec. Help us reach our goal of 500 supporters by signing up now at https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/758-stand-in-solidarity-with-tibet.

Two new self-immolations in Tibet today, December 8, 2012

Two new self-immolations in Tibet today, December 8, 2012 : First, in Luchu, Gansu province in Amdo, his name is Pedma Dorje, and he is 23 years old.

སྤྱི་ལོ༢༠༡༢ལོའི་ཧོར་ཟླ༡༠པའི་ཚེས༢༥ཉིན་ལ ཀན་ལྷོ་ཀླུ་ཆུའི་ཤིས་ཚང་ཚོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཁོངས་གཏོགས་ཆོས་འཁོར་སྡེ་བའི་རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་པདྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད༤:༣༥ཡས་མས་སུ་མདོ་སྨད་ཆོས་སྡེ་ཆེན་མོ་ཤིས་ཚང་དགོན་པའི་འདུ་ཁང་སྒོ་ནས་རང་ལུས་མེ་མཆོད་འབུལ་བས་སྐུ་གྲོངས་འདུག དགུང་ལོ་ཉེར་གསུམ་རེད་ཟེར

Tibet Self-Immolations Move to Lhasa

Tobgye Tseten, who died from self-immolation in Lhasa this week, was from Xiahe County, or Labrang in Tibetan, the seat of the famous Labrang Monastery. It is one of my favorite places in the world. When I talked with Tibetans in Labrang in 1996 there was obvious discontent over Chinese rule and the situation only has gotten worse. I don't have my photos of Labrang with me in Kuwait but found this wonderful photo on China Mike's website, he seems like a great guy:  http://www.china-mike.com/

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Bodh Gaya during the Kalachakra Teachings 2012

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The detainees are being interrogated and ordered to denounce the Dalai Lama, according to groups who have conducted interviews with family members.

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