WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA?

The present (11th) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is a matter of controversy: the People's Republic of China asserts it is Gyancain Norbu, while the 14th Dalai Lama asserted it was Gedhun Choekyi Nyima on May 14, 1995. The latter vanished from public eye shortly after being named, aged six. Chinese authorities stated that Gedhun had been taken into protective custody from those that would spirit him into exile. However, most believe he is now held in captivity against the wishes of the Tibetan people. Tibetans and human rights groups continue to campaign for his release. 

Today:

The Panchen Lamas 24th birthday.

WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA?

What you can do today:

1, share this post
2. use the picture as profile pic

3. CALL THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN YOUR COUNTRY

yes, a bit of an effort, finding phone numbers, but please MAKE that effort..we need to speak up for what we believe in, not just *like* pictures and photos..

Please
take action today.

Even one call.....

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

Breaking: Burning Tibetan calls for independence, Two self-immolations in a day...

Two new self-immolations today, December 8, 2012 :
The second is a monk Kunchok Phelgye, who self-immolated in Ngaba at arrond 3-4 PM local time asking to allow

 the retourn of HH Dalai Lama to Tibet.
གཞན་དེ་རིང་བོད་ནང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་༤ཡས་མུས་སུ་རྔ་བ་རྐིརཏི་དགོན་པའི་གྲྭ་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་ལགས་ཡང་རང་མེར་མཆོད་ཀྱི་གནས་བྱུང་འདུག

Breaking: Burning Tibetan calls for independence, Two self-immolations in a day...

Kunchok Phelgye, a 24-year-old-monk from the Sumdo Monastery in Dzoege region of eastern Tibet passed away in his self-immolation protest today. The exile base 

of the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, in a release, said that Kunchok Phelgye set himself on fire in front of the main assembly hall of the Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery at around 5:20 pm (local time). “Kunchok Phelgye was enveloped in flames and his hands were joined in prayers as he raised slogans for the long life and return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kyabje Kirti Rinpoche, the exiled head of Kirti Monastery,” the release said citing sources in the region. “He also raised slogans calling for the return and reunification of Tibetans.” Kunchok Phelgye succumbed to his injuries at the site of his protest. Monks of the Monastery surrounded Kunchok Phelgye’s burning body and began to recite the prayer, “Losang Gyalwa Kungi Nyingje Ter…” (usually recited in Kirti Rinpoche’s honour). Later, Kunchok Phelgye’s body was carried to his quarters in the Monastery where hundreds of monks and local Tibetans continue to visit to offer their last respects and prayers.

85th self-immolation protest in Tibet - WORLD WAKE UP!

Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ 

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ

BREAKING: Kelsang Kyab set himself on fire today, November 27, 2012 at 7 PM in Kyangtsa township, Amdo Dzoge, Ngaba district.
་ཕྱི་ཚེས་༢༧་ད་ལྟ་རང་མདོ་སྨད་མཛོད་དགེ་ནས་བོད་་་་་་་མི་ཞིག་གིས་རང:་་་་་་་་་བསྲེཊ་བྱས་འདུག་ཟེར་བའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཁག་ནས་ངེས་བར་དུ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་རོགས།

Four Tibetans self-immolate as protest breaks out at school ...

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by Malcolm Moore - in 1,008 Google+ circles 8 hours ago – Tuesday 27 November 2012 ... China Congress: teenageTibetan monks self-immolate ... Seven Tibetan self-immolations hit China in a week ...

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   By Associated Press on November 27, 2012 ... Four more ethnicTibetans have self-immolated to protest Chinese rule and at least 20 were hospitalised after ...

Tibetan deaths continue under China's policies...

Tibetans’ are forced to bow down as they are taken away by Chinese security forces. (From a Chinese military forum)

For my Chinese friends who insist that China's Tibetan policy is strictly humanitarian and as some put it, "China does not want anything from Tibet except to help a 'backwards' and 'less advanced' people":

China: Protester Killed as Police Fire on Demonstration

By ANDREW JACOBS (NYT)

As many as 1,000 people demonstrated against mining operations in an environmentally fragile part of Tibet on Wednesday, Radio Free Asia reported. 

Self-Immolations Continue in China

By EDWARD WONG (NYT)

Two young Tibetan men set themselves on fire on Monday in a Tibetan region of western China to protest Chinese rule.

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/

Tibet Self-Immolations Moves to Lhasa

By EDWARD WONG (NYT)

The self-immolations were the most significant act of protest to take place in heavily patrolled city of Lhasa since the uprising in 2008.

More Tibetans Set Themselves on Fire

A woman throws a white scarf over Tibetan Buddhist nun Palden Choetso as she burns on the street in Daofu, or Tawu in Tibetan, in this still image taken from video / Reuters

China: Tibetans Set Themselves on Fire

By EDWARD WONG (NYT)

Two Tibetan men on Thursday set themselves on fire in the town of Barma in the mountainous area called Ngaba by Tibetans and Aba in Chinese, according to Tibet advocacy groups.

China Said to Detain Returning Tibetan Pilgrims

Bodh Gaya during the Kalachakra Teachings 2012

China Said to Detain Returning Tibetan Pilgrims

By EDWARD WONG (NYT)

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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Tibet self immolation protests going largely unnoticed in the wider world...

This image from video, released Friday, March 23, 2012 by London-based activist group Free Tibet, reportedly shows the cremation of Sonam Thargyal, a 44-year-old farmer who doused himself with kerosene before setting himself on fire earlier this month.

Tibet Self Immolation Wave Among History's Biggest

www.huffingtonpost.com

BEIJING -- Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history.  But the stunning protests are going largely unnoticed in the wider world...

If tiny Norway can stand up to the Beijing's bullying, why can't the USA?

If tiny Norway can stand up to the Beijing's bullying, why can't the USA?

Limits to Beijing's bullying by Fareed Zakaria, CNN

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Limits to Beijing's bullying By Fareed Zakaria, CNN March 30th, 2012 In the playground of foreign affairs, you would think that size matters. The biggest bul...

Tibetan woman, student set selves on fire

This photo taken in 2011 shows the entrance to the Kirti monastary in the town of Aba in China's Sichuan province. A mother of four died after setting herself on fire in a Tibetan-inhabited region of southwest China on Sunday, a rights group said, in the latest self-immolation to hit the country.  http://news.yahoo.com/photos/world-events-slideshow/kirti-monastary-town-aba-photo-200041781.html

Report: Tibetan woman, student set selves on fire

Another Tibetan monk dies in China protest

Tibetan monks at a Buddhist ceremony. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty

China: Another Monk Dies by Fire

By SHARON LaFRANIERE (NYT)

In the latest deadly Tibetan protest against Chinese rule, an 18-year-old Buddhist monk set himself on fire outside his monastery in Sichuan Province, a Tibetan support group said.

Another Tibetan monk dies in anti-Chinese protest, hundreds detained...

Another Tibetan monk, Tamchoe Sangpo, dies in anti-Chinese protest  - Reuters/Carlos Barria

China: A Ranking Monk’s Protest Suicide

By IAN JOHNSON (NYT)

A Tibetan monk died after setting fire to himself Friday, another sign of the trouble in China’s western border region.  

China Detains Tibetans After Trip to India, Rights Group Says

By REUTERS (NYT)

Several hundred Tibetans who had attended teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama were being forced to undergo political re-education, Human Rights Watch said.

18-year-old Tibetan nun set herself on fire – twenty secondth Tibetan since March last year – in desperate protests against China

22nd Tibetan Self Immolates in Anti-China Protest

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A Tibetan nun has set herself on fire – twenty secondth Tibetan since March last year – in desperate protests against China. 

Tenzin Choedron, 18-year-old, nun at Mamae nunnery, Ngaba, Kham, set herself on fire at 6 pm today, February 11.

More Deaths and Anti-Chinese Protests in Tibet

A Tibetan woman outside a monastery in the Sichuan province of China. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/09/another-monk

China: 2 Tibetans Reported Killed in Self-Immolation Protest

By RICK GLADSTONE (NYT)

Chinese security forces shot and killed two Tibetans on Thursday who had been involved in antigovernment protests, the American broadcaster Radio Free Asia reported.

China: Exile Groups Report Another Self-Immolation in Tibet

By IAN JOHNSON (NYT)

The latest report brings the total number of Tibetans who have taken their lives to protest Chinese rule since March 2009 to 20.  

Also see previous posts on Tibet:

William of Arabia: Chinese Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters Again...

Jan 28, 2012

By DAN LEVIN (NYT). Far from the eyes of Beijing technocrats, students learn to write Tibetan and get their first formal introduction to a history, culture and religion that many call embattled. Posted by William Andersen at 3:22 ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: 3 Tibetans Self-Immolate in Anti-Chinese Protest

Feb 06, 2012

Since March 2011, as many as 19 Tibetans have set fire to themselves in Tibet; 7 since 6 January 2012. There was a further self-immolation in 2009. http://standupfortibet.org/ ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Tenth Tibetan Monk Sets Self on Fire!

Oct 26, 2011

By RICK GLADSTONE (NYT). The group Free Tibet said the self-immolation happened outside a monastery in Garze, and that the monk's identity, condition and whereabouts were not known. For more on Tibet in this blog see ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: China 'disappeared' Tibet's Panchen Lama

Apr 25, 2011

I don't think you will receive this letter. I know that you're being watched, monitored and controlled 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But deep down I have this stubborn hope that maybe you will hear us. Maybe you'll see us ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Two Tibetan Monks Set Themselves on Fire in ...

Sep 26, 2011

Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok of Kirti Monastery are the 3rd and 4th monks to have self-immolated in the last six months, an act that Tibet had never seen before 2009. The two young monks, both aged 18, called for ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Chinese security forces opened fire on Tibetan ...

Jan 24, 2012

Police officers opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China on Monday in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR??? Posted by William Andersen at ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Twelfth Tibetan Self-Immolates in anti-China protest

Dec 03, 2011

A former Tibetan monk set fire to himself on Thursday as an anti-China political protest in Tibet's Chamdo township. Posted by William Andersen at 6:12 PM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Horrifying image of Tibetan nun in flames on street ...

Nov 21, 2011

The image is taken from a video released by protest group Students for a Free Tibet, who smuggled it out of southwest China following the incident. Posted by William Andersen at 7:51 PM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: 11th Tibetan sets self on fire to protest Chinese ...

Nov 04, 2011

Tibetans-in-exile hold placards showing the monks who had set themselves on fire to protest against the Chinese rule in Tibet during a protest march in Dharamshala. (AFP Photo/Lobsang Wangyal) ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Petition to Release Tibetan poet Tashi Rabten

Nov 12, 2011

High Peaks Pure Earth, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Split This Rock, members of the Tibetan community, and human rights/freedom of speech supporters... Posted by William Andersen at 9:09 PM · Email ThisBlogThis!

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William of Arabia: New siege on Tibetan Monastery by Chinese ...

Apr 17, 2011

The current situation prevailing at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba in northeastern Tibet is extremely grim because of the stand-off between the Chinese military forces and the local Tibetans... Posted by William Andersen at 12:19 AM ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

lecture at Milwaukee Art Museum: Emperor Qianlong & Tibetan ...

Aug 02, 2011

Lecture: Palace Tantra: Emperor Qianlong's Fascination with Tibetan Buddhism. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011, 6:15 PM. Lubar Auditorium of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Free with Museum admission (first Thursdays of the ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: Censorship...

Mar 26, 2009

Although many of the students had very little knowledge of Tibet or the heavy-handed censorship of Tibetan culture and religion in China, they were very interested in censorship, especially of the internet. The Kuwaiti ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

William of Arabia: China 22 years later...

Jun 04, 2011

-Tibet Post International. Hong Kong Residents to Hold Vigil Marking Tiananmen...‎ - Bloomberg. Tiananmen Square Anniversary: 22 Years Later - Huffington Post. Tiananmen legacy: Crush any hint of dissent‎ - Vancouver ...

http://williamjandersen.blogspot.com/

3 Tibetans Self-Immolate in Anti-Chinese Protest

Since March 2011, as many as 19 Tibetans have set fire to themselves in Tibet; 7 since 6 January 2012. There was a further self-immolation in 2009.  http://standupfortibet.org/

3 Tibetan Herders Self-Immolate in Anti-Chinese Protest

By SHARON LaFRANIERE (NYT)

The latest cases bring the total self-immolations by ethnic Tibetans over the past year to 19.  

Chinese Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters Again...

These sure look like Stormtroppers or the soldiers-for-hire in Avatar (ironically the highest grossing movie in Chinese movie history). Image from http://www.sftuk.org/join-mass-lobby/  with the caption: Today, Tibet’s streets are filled with troops, maintaining a state of fear.  

Deadly Clashes Spread in Tibetan Areas of China

By KEITH BRADSHER and RICK GLADSTONE (NYT)

Deadly showdowns between Chinese security forces and Tibetans in a restive region of western China spread to a second town on Tuesday, outside advocacy groups reported. 

Chinese Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters Again

By KEITH BRADSHER (NYT)

The latest episode was the third of its kind this week, activist groups say.

Teaching Tibetan Ways, School in China Is Unlikely Wonder

By DAN LEVIN (NYT)

Far from the eyes of Beijing technocrats, students learn to write Tibetan and get their first formal introduction to a history, culture and religion that many call embattled. 

  

Chinese security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters, killing at least one...

Chinese security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters, killing at least one. 

Tibetans Fired Upon in Protest in China

By KEITH BRADSHER (NYT)

Police officers opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China on Monday in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008. 

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR???

Twelfth Tibetan Self-Immolates in anti-China protest

Tibetan monks lie under a banner showing flames. 
Picture: AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia

Twelfth Tibetan Self-Immolates, but Survives

By EDWARD WONG (NYT)

A former Tibetan monk set fire to himself on Thursday as an anti-China political protest in Tibet’s Chamdo township.