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Tibetans in Tibet are appealing for help to stop a Chinese company from mining a sacred mountain.
Since May 16th, hundreds of Tibetans have been peacefully blockading the main road leading to Ser Ngul Lo Mountain in Markham County. Tibetans in the region believe mining is poisoning water sources, leading to the deaths of both people and cattle. More than 300 armed security forces have been deployed to the area, and the situation on the ground is reported to be incredibly tense.
Under Chinese occupation, Tibetans are routinely denied the right to determine the use of their own land and resources. Any Tibetan who dares to oppose mining operations is at great risk of arrest, imprisonment, and even torture.
Help protect Tibetans in Markham and their sacred mountain. Let the Chinese government know the world is watching.
1) If you are in the U.S., fax a letter to China's Ambassador to the United States, Zhou Wenzhong http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/stopminingaction
2) If you are living outside of the U.S., fax a letter to China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Zhang Yesui http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/markham
To learn more, go to: http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/stopminingaction/explanation
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::continue reading hereOn April 8th, China sentenced two Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, to death for their alleged involvement in last year's protests in Lhasa. Two others, Phuntsok and Kangtsuk, were also sentenced to death but with a two year reprieve, and Dawa Sangpo was sentenced to life imprisonment.
These harsh sentences signal an alarming escalation in the Chinese government's campaign to punish and intimidate Tibetans who dare to speak out against Chinese rule.
If you agree that such punishments are harsh and unjustified please take action.
- Kalon Tripa says Tibetans ready to talk
- Three foreigners detained in Kathmandu
- Bomb blast in Kardze
- Monks taken for 'study' after peaceful protest
- Karmapa gives rare interview
- Luxury train to Lhasa postponed
- China arrests a Tibetan civil servant
- China approves "modern redesign" of Lhasa
- Nun stages protest march in Kardze
- Fear of more HIV infections
- Youths and monks held for marking uprising anniversary
- Arrests over farming boycott
- Tibetan writer arrested
- Danish PM hopes to meet Dalai Lama in May
- Chinese bank lends to mines in Tibet
- Ragya monastery encircled and under severe restriction
- Tibet re-opens to foreign tourists from April
- Tibetan writer-photographer arrested in Gansu Province
- Nuns arrested in Kardze
- China block footage of Tibet violence on YouTube
- Peace conference "postponed" after Dalai Lama refused visa
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Here's a link to a page of downloadable Amida chants in Chinese, "Namo Amituofo" - "Homage to Amitabha Buddha"
We the undersigned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights leaders and concerned individuals wish to express our concern at the current deterioration of the human rights situation in Tibet, and the apparent breakdown of the talks between the Chinese government and emissaries of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We are dismayed at the lack of any concrete progress toward resolving the conflict over the autonomy and religious freedom of the Tibetan people, and urge all parties involved to redouble their effort to achieve this vital goal.
"To our dear friend His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we say: we stand with you. You define non-violence and compassion and goodness. Clearly China does not know you. It is our sincere hope that they will. We call on China's government to know His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as we and so many others have come to know him during the long decades he has spent in exile.
"We ask the esteemed Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to visit Tibet, and request that she be given access
to assess and report to the international community the current state
of affairs for the Tibetan people.
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There’s a new law in force in China these days that says the Chinese authorities in future would choose reincarnating Tibetan lamas. Partly in anticipation of such a move and mostly to keep pace with the changing times, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said he has been toying with different methods to choose his successor. This standoff between Tibetan Buddhism and the Chinese Communist Party has brought international media spotlight on this unique system of selecting Tibetan spiritual leaders and on one culture’s spiritual beliefs and a state’s political ambitions.
Buddhists
believe that highly realized beings have the capacity to choose where
and when they want to be reborn. It’s a matter of putting the efforts
of a lifetime (or, in most cases, lifetimes) to adjust one’s internal
mechanism to reach the level when one could project one’s spiritual
qualities over time and space. These qualities enable highly realized
beings to manifest themselves simultaneously in several places, as the
historical Buddha did when he was seen teaching at several places at
the same time. Or, over many lifetimes, rebirth after rebirth, and in
different life forms, as the Buddha did and which forms the basis and
the moral of the classic book, the Jataka Tales.
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There’s a new law in force in China these days that says the Chinese authorities in future would choose reincarnating Tibetan lamas. Partly in anticipation of such a move and mostly to keep pace with the changing times, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said he has been toying with different methods to choose his successor. This standoff between Tibetan Buddhism and the Chinese Communist Party has brought international media spotlight on this unique system of selecting Tibetan spiritual leaders and on one culture’s spiritual beliefs and a state’s political ambitions.
Buddhists
believe that highly realized beings have the capacity to choose where
and when they want to be reborn. It’s a matter of putting the efforts
of a lifetime (or, in most cases, lifetimes) to adjust one’s internal
mechanism to reach the level when one could project one’s spiritual
qualities over time and space. These qualities enable highly realized
beings to manifest themselves simultaneously in several places, as the
historical Buddha did when he was seen teaching at several places at
the same time. Or, over many lifetimes, rebirth after rebirth, and in
different life forms, as the Buddha did and which forms the basis and
the moral of the classic book, the Jataka Tales.
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::continue reading + further linksA quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing Boing:
Everyone listed here is still missing.
- James Powderly
- Brian Conley
- Jeffrey Rae
- Jeff Goldin
- Michael Liss
- Tom GrantThey were all working in Beijing in different ways, as citizen journalists and activists. My opinion at this point is they are being held longer than other detained activists because they all had much more gear - macbooks, eee pc's, HD video cameras, digital SLR cams... standard stuff in most places, but I can imagine it raises a lot of eyebrows to the authorities in China, especially when related to protests and Tibet.
1. The telecast of sports events will be live [but] in case of emergencies, no print is allowed to report on it.
2. From August 1, most of the previously accessible overseas websites will be unblocked. No coverage is allowed on this development. There's also no need to use stories published overseas on this matter and [website] operators should not provide any superlinks on their pages.
3. Be careful with religious and ethnic subjects.
4. Don't make fuss about foreign leaders at the opening ceremony, especially in relation to seat arrangements or their private lives......
7. As for the Pro-Tibetan independence and East Turkistan movements, no coverage is allowed. There's also no need to make fuss about our anti-terrorism efforts.
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