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What happens when the Dalai Lama dies?

2014-10-24T19:37:00.000-07:00

DHARMSALA, India — The question looms over this raggedy hillside town, a place where ancient mysticism constantly brushes against the realities of modern geopolitics. The monks who fled across the Himalayas ask it quietly, as do the exile politicians. Even the angry young activists are careful how they raise the issue.

But as the man at the center of the Tibetan exile movement approaches his 75th birthday, the question has become impossible to escape: What happens after the Dalai Lama dies?

The issue echoes far from Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's home since he fled Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. It ranges from policy decisions in Beijing to widespread fears inside Tibet and among the 150,000 exiles that their struggle for autonomy may collapse with the death of their icon.

It is something he thinks about all the time.

"When I pass away, when I die, of course (there will be) a setback. Very serious setback," the Dalai Lama said quietly in a recent interview in his private hilltop compound, speaking in his often-tangled English. His words spill out in bursts, and he can veer suddenly between resignation and determination. "But then, this younger generation will carry this on. There is no question."

That younger generation, though, isn't so sure.

"Right now we are under His Holiness' leadership," said Tenzin Norlha, a 29-year-old Tibetan genetics researcher in Dharmsala, her face creased with worry. While the Dalai Lama is thought to be in reasonable health, he has struggled with a series of ailments in recent years and turns 75 in July. "After he passes away, then what will we see? ... Who can take care of us as His Holiness has done?"

It is hard to exaggerate the hold that the Dalai Lama, like his predecessors over the centuries, has over Tibetans. To them he is a king, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the embodiment of compassion. He is The Presence, The Holder of the White Lotus, The Absolute Wisdom, The Ocean. His presence often reduces his followers to speechless weeping.

For nearly 500 years the tradition has continued, with each dead Dalai Lama reincarnated into the body of a young Tibetan boy. But with Tibet's leadership in exile and an aging Dalai Lama, Tibetan history is at a precipice.

"Once the Dalai Lama dies, the whole exile structure is going to be under enormous pressure," said Robbie Barnett, a Tibet scholar at Columbia University.

Among the possible aftershocks: a rival Dalai Lama anointed inside China, home to some 5.4 million Tibetans; squabbling among various Buddhist sects; a plunge in donations; infighting in the exile government and a drop in interest among wealthy foreign supporters and young activists.

In many ways, the Dalai Lama is a man who could be undone by his own charisma. Behind the monk's robes he might look like a midwestern 1960s retiree — with a buzz haircut, oversized glasses, maroon polyester socks and orthopedic shoes — but decades of visitors have talked about his ability to make intense personal connections. He laughs loudly, he slaps playfully at people he barely knows.

His most fervent Western supporters revere him as a mystical amalgam of Nelson Mandela and Yoda, and his wealthy and powerful allies range from actor Richard Gere to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He will be a hard man to follow.

"The Tibetan government is now standing on the strength of one man," said Jamyang Norbu, a writer who once fought for the small, long-disbanded Tibetan guerrilla army. He is one of the most outspoken intellectuals favoring complete Tibetan independence, as opposed to the limited autonomy the Dalai Lama now demands.

Norbu worries about the personality cult that surrounds the Dalai Lama, and the way his god-like status can make it difficult for dissenting voices to be heard. "In many ways I am loyal to him. But it's difficult to have an independent point of view" in the exile community, he said from his Tennessee home.

The Dalai Lama, the 14th in the line of reincarnations, has at times insisted his reincarnation would be born in exile and has also said the tradition could end with his death. He has talked about dividing his power, with his reincarnation carrying on spiritual duties while someone else — perhaps someone he appoints — takes up the leadership of the exile movement.

He regularly meets with high-ranking monks to discuss his succession. The group includes the Karmapa, a 24-year-old monk known for his daring escape from China and appreciation of PlayStation war games. Many observers believe he is being groomed to take on more power.

Publicly, the Dalai Lama often treats the issue lightly — his advisers "are hoping my life may remain infinite," he said, laughing — but he is clearly sending up trial balloons, gauging what his followers will accept after he dies.

And always, Beijing's potential reactions are weighed.

"There's a fear that unless we can strengthen the exile government before His Holiness passes away, the Chinese will make a strong attempt to control his reincarnation process," said Norbu.

China has left little doubt that it intends to be deeply involved in the Dalai Lama's succession, ridiculing his scenarios and insisting that religious law requires the reincarnation be born in a Tibetan area under Chinese control.

This means a government led by fierce atheists may soon be trying to steer an ancient mystical process, using monks loyal to Beijing to install a China-approved successor.

The Dalai Lama shrugs at the idea: "This is very possible," he said, adding no one will be fooled: "One Dalai Lama is official; one Dalai Lama is Dalai Lama of the Tibetan heart."

Such a move would echo Beijing's tactics with the Panchen Lama, one of the leading figures in Tibetan Buddhism. In 1995, when the Dalai Lama named a young boy as the reincarnated Panchen Lama, that boy disappeared and has not been seen since.

Another boy, backed by Beijing, was soon named the official reincarnation, though he has little support among Tibetans.

It was far different in 1939 when, after a series of mystical signs, a young Tibetan boy named Lhamo Dhondrub was announced at age 2 to be the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama.

The new Dalai Lama was enthroned in a feudal Himalayan kingdom that had remained deeply isolated until well into the 20th century. It was a place where indentured servitude was common, telephones nearly unknown and where, in the 1930s, a politician was sentenced by the Tibetan government to having his eyeballs removed for trying to use black magic to kill a rival.

The Dalai Lama found himself jousting with China while he was still a teenager. In 1950, when he was 15, Chinese soldiers invaded Tibet. Nine years later, as talks with Beijing collapsed and a Tibetan uprising was crushed, the Dalai Lama fled with a handful of supporters across the mountains into India.

Over the past half-century, the once-feudal king has become a master of the modern world. He is an ascetic Buddhist monk long accustomed to celebrities who want to prostrate themselves before him. He travels and lectures constantly. He has raised tens of millions of dollars for the Tibetan cause, supporting everything from orphanages to a soccer team. He has become an international symbol of peace.

In Beijing, though, he's something different: "A jackal wearing a monk's robe," one China-appointed Tibetan official said. "A demon," said another. Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of being a "splittist" who is secretly plotting for Tibet's complete independence from China.

Tibetan exile leaders and independent human rights observers, meanwhile, say China is systematically stripping Tibet of its heritage. Ethnic Han Chinese are pouring into the region, while Beijing has arrested generations of political activists and oversees a vast military and intelligence network that reaches into nearly every village and monastery.

While the Dalai Lama still advocates talks with China — the discussions have limped along for years — he has few other choices.

"So far, dialogue failed, but that does not mean in future no possibility," he said in the Dharmsala interview. He insists one minute that change is at hand, but then says he is always disappointed. "Eventually, all these hopes disappear."

Today, increasing numbers of Tibetans are putting their hope in a new generation of political leaders.

In 2011, Tibetans will choose the exile government's next prime minister, an election widely seen as the most democratic yet for the exiles. Reflecting the constant tug here between tradition and modernity, exile politicians have long tried to do what they think the Dalai Lama wants — while the Dalai Lama says politicians need to make their own decisions.

"In a way, it's like saying 'Who will be our next leader?'" said Tenzin Choeying of the activist group Students for a Free Tibet. "Without mentioning His Holiness, this is a way of addressing the issue" of his death.

And, he insists, one day the movement will succeed: "People say we're dreamers, but the same thing might have been said about Indians who wanted independence (from England) in the 1890s."

That pervading sense of hope is perhaps the strangest thing about Dharmsala, this town of Tibetans and wandering hippies, with its astrologers, crystal shops and enough yoga masters to form a small but exceedingly limber army.

The Dalai Lama, despite his occasional lapses into pessimism, is hopeful that things will improve in Tibet. The activists are hopeful.

Even the state oracle is hopeful.

The oracle is an avuncular 52-year-old monk named Thupten Ngodup who, during trances, is said to be able to communicate with the spirit world and look into the future. He is a powerful political and spiritual adviser to the government and the Dalai Lama.

Ngodup, who fled Tibet as a child, has no doubt that he'll return.

"Perhaps my hope might sound a little stupid," he said in his monastery office. "But in this century, the era of dictatorship is passing."

"Change will come," he said. "Change will come to China."

Colors Xfactor X15 idol 3.5" supports Tibetan language script

2013-09-22T21:58:00.001-07:00

I am glad to write here that Indian-Chinese Mobile Colors Xfactor X15 idol 3.5 supports Tibetan script. I try two stack and three stack characters and it support well. Also found there is tibetan font pre-installed in Color x15 system.

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2013-07-10T23:06:00.000-07:00

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2013-07-07T22:49:00.001-07:00

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Rules for Breaking Lines in Tibetan Language

2012-09-27T01:44:00.002-07:00

Rules for Breaking Lines in Tibetan Language Line-breaking and word-wrapping algorithms are important to text parsing as well as to text display. The rules for Asian languages, however, are quite different from the rules for Western languages. For example, unlike most Western written languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Tibetan do not necessarily indicate the distinction between words by using spaces. 1. Start Microsoft Word 2010 2. Click File Tab (Home) 3 Click Advanced opten 4. Goto Layout Option (at the end ) 5. Tick use line-breaking rules

India: Tibetan Sets Self On Fire In Front Of China Embassy

2011-11-04T08:14:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI — Police overpowered a young Tibetan exile who set himself on fire outside the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital Friday in solidarity with Tibetans who self-immolated in China recently.

Police grabbed 25-year-old Sherab TseDor and put out the fire engulfing his trousers. He shouted "Free Tibet, Stop Killing in Tibet," as officers took him in a jeep to a hospital.

The man suffered minor burns, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

At least 11 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in China in recent months protesting Chinese restrictions on the Tibetan religion and culture. At least six died and the conditions of the others are unknown.

Although there is no tradition of self-immolation as a form of protest in Tibetan society, the suicides are seen as a sign of growing desperation in the ethnically Tibetan region, where tensions have been high since massive anti-government protests in 2008.

Nepalese police detain more than 100 Tibetan exiles protesting against Chinese rule

2011-11-01T05:38:00.000-07:00

By Associated Press, Published: November 1

KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepalese police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles on Tuesday who had gathered to pray for nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule.

A group of Tibetans including 150 monks were holding a prayer meeting on the outskirts of Katmandu in honor of the monks, former monks and a nun who have self-immolated since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China that has been under martial law-type police controls.

Aged in their late teens and twenties, at least five died of their injuries, while the condition of the other four is not known.

An Associated Press reporter saw police in riot gear enter the prayer meeting at the Tibetan Refugee Center and pull down a banner of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. This angered the Tibetans at the meeting who poured into the streets to protest. They chanted anti-China slogans calling for a “free Tibet” and for China to “leave our home.”

Police detained more than 100 protesters, who were taken away in trucks to detention centers, according to a police officer at the scene.

There have been several similar protests in the past in Nepal. The police generally don’t charge the protesters and they are usually released by nightfall.

The government has said it cannot allow protests to take place in Nepal against friendly nations, including China. Nepal is also under pressure from Chinese government to stop them.

Thousands of Tibetans live in Nepal and hundreds pass through Nepal on their way from Tibet to Dharmasala in India where the Dalai Lama lives.

Earthquake in Sikkim, India shakes Kathmandu and other Parts of Nepal

2011-09-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has been experienced in Kathmandu, Pokhara and other parts of the country. The earthquake occurred around 6.25 pm (this evening) and its reported that at least five people have been killed and several others have been injured. The epicentre of the earthquake is said to be somewhere along the Indo-Nepal border. Reported till now is of Magnitude 4.8 6.8 in SIKKIM, INDIA. Kathmandu, however experienced magnitude 6.8 on Richter Scale Earthquake.

The National Seismologic Centre (NSC) in Kathmandu said that the quake was measured 6.8 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in the border region of Taplejung of Nepal and Sikkim of India.
epicenter of the earthquake Earthquake in Sikkim, India shakes Kathmandu and other Parts of Nepal

The earthquake lasted for few seconds and people in Kathmandu are already full of panic.

We are following tweets to report damages and injuiries.

It has been reported that three persons have been injured as the wall of the British embassy to Nepal crumbled in Lainchaur.
According to Metropolitan police in Kathmandu, three persons (two adults and a child), were killed in the earthquake. They were killed when a compound wall fell on the car they were traveling at Laichchaur, Kathmandu.
Those killed have been identified as Sajan Shrestha, 36, and his eight-year-old daughter Anisha of Gorkha and one other man Bir Bahadur Majhi, according to police inspector Dan Bahadur Thapa, chief of Metropolitan Police Range, Sohrakhutte.
TV channels reported two persons were killed in Dharan. 20-year-old Santosh Pariyar and his six-year-old Kamal Pariyar died when the wall of their house collapsed, District Police Office Sunsari informed.
The Home Ministry came up with a statement saying the earthquake destroyed around 58 houses across the nation with 10 in the capital.

The Earthquake also interrupted the ongoing House session of CA in Kathmandu.

Nepal’s Tibetan refugee resettlement plan still in doldrums

2011-09-08T09:20:00.000-07:00

Source: News One
Kathmandu, Sep 8 (IANS) Nearly six years after the then US president George W. Bush proposed to resettle in America around 5,000 Tibetan refugees, regarded as living in danger in Nepal, there is still uncertainty and a shroud of secrecy surrounding the project.

In the past, the US successfully lobbied with the Nepal government to allow the over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal to be offered new homes in the US and other western countries. Subsequently, more than 50,000 refugees have already exited Nepal.

However, the Tibetan resettlement programme, though it involves a handful of refugees by comparison, continues to hang fire due to Nepal’s reluctance to ruffle the feathers of its giant northern neighbour China.

Soon after the Bush proposal was announced in September 2005, China objected to it, saying it would be tantamount to interfering in its internal affairs and violating Nepal’s One China policy, which regards Tibet to be an integral part of the Chinese republic.

Beijing considers there are no Tibetan refugees, only illegal migrants, who should be punished as per the law of the land.

However, two years later, there were indications that the dragon was mellowing.

In May 2007, the then Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Zheng Xianglin, held a meeting with the then American ambassador to Nepal, James F. Moriarty to discuss the Tibetan and other issues.

In a ‘frank conversation’, Zheng implied that ‘limited resettlement’ in the US might be possible. However, he cautioned Moriarty that ‘large and public resettlement plans were not a viable option’.

Emphasizing the importance of a ‘stable Tibet’, the Chinese envoy indicated that a ‘large’ US resettlement policy could have the potential fallout of encouraging outward migration from Tibet.

Answering diplomatically, the American ambassador said his government viewed Tibet as a part of China and only sought to assist the Tibetans who were stranded in Nepal, not create ‘a new wave of migration’.

The apparent Chinese thaw caught the Americans by surprise.

When Moriarty briefed his superiors in Washington, he said the Chinese envoy’s comments about Tibetan refugees were ‘most surprising’.

‘While we would not advise reading too much into his remarks, we will continue to explore with the government of Nepal the option of quietly resettling a few Tibetans,’ Moriarty said in the confidential document that is part of the recent cache published by WikiLeaks.

The US offer to resettle only 5,000 Tibetan refugees, while the diaspora has more than 20,000 members in Nepal, has been greeted with doubts by the Tibetans, who wonder why the US was ready to absorb 60,000 Bhutanese refugees but only a fraction of Tibetans.

They also feel that resettlement in the US for them would be tougher than resettling the Bhutanese refugees as tiny Bhutan could not bring the same political pressure on Nepal to scuttle the move as China could.

Oldest Woolly Rhinoceros Cradled in Tibet, Hotspot for Evolution's Mystery

2011-09-03T09:24:00.000-07:00

September 3, 2011 9:55 AM EDT
After its long survival for 3.7 million years, the fossil of a species of wooly rhinoceros finally saw the light of day as it was uncovered in Tibet's Zanda Basin, a hotspot where scientists expect for most unexpected discoveries to come from.

The woolly rhino's fossil was discovered on the Tibetan Plateau in 2007 by paleontologists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Chinese Academy of Science.

The complete 3-foot-long skull and lower jaw, along with a neck vertibra were uncovered in southwestern Tibet.
Digital composite photo of the skull and lower jaw of the woolly rhino. Courtesy of Xiaoming Wang
Digital composite photo of the skull and lower jaw of the woolly rhino. Courtesy of Xiaoming Wang

Based on the new fossils, they argue that some mega-herbivores first evolved in Tibetan foothills of the Himalayas, and then migrated to other regions. The fossil is believed to be the oldest sample of its kind ever discovered.

Around 1 million years before the Ice Age when the known woolly rhinos roamed around, the newly discovered wooly rhinoceros lived in the Himalayas utilizing its large body, long hair and snow-sweeping structures to adapt a cold environment, according to researchers.

"The cold winters in high Tibet served as a habituation ground for the mega-herbivores, which became pre-adapted for the Ice Age, successfully expanding to the Eurasian mammoth steppe," researchers said.

Equipped with a flat shovel-like horn, which it would have used to sweep away snow and find vegetation, the rhino, scientists estimate, was roughly the size of today's Indian and black rhinos. But since the fossils did not include hair, paleontologists can only guess how woolly it might have been.

The fossil is "quite well preserved - just a little crushed, so not quite in the original shape; but the complete skull and lower jaw are preserved," Xiaoming Wang from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County told BBC News.

While scientists have thought it a reasonable idea that some mammals adapted to the global cooling well before it happened, Wang and his colleagues were able to provide proof with their finds from the Zanda Basin, which sits 3,700 to 4,500 meters above sea level and is surrounded by higher peaks.

"It just happens to have the right environment to basically let animals acclimate themselves and be ready for the Ice Age cold," Wang added.

The rhino, dubbed as Coelodonta thibetan, also had teeth with high crowns, which could have made it easy for it to handle tough and high-altitude vegetation. Scientists suspect that the giant spread to northern Asia and Europe after the Ice Age set in 2.6 million years ago.

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2011-08-13T09:16:00.000-07:00

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historic occasion , Lobsang Sangay takes oath as Tibetan Kalon Tripa (video youtube)

2011-08-10T09:19:00.000-07:00

As the clock ticked 9 past 9 minutes on Monday morning — the number nine associated with longevity in the Tibetan tradition — Dr Lobsang Sangay was sworn in as the new Prime Minister (Kalon Tripa) of the Tibetan government-in-exile in McLeodganj in Himachal Pradesh.

Lobsang Sangay takes oath as Tibetan Kalon Tripa
IANS India Private LimitedBy Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Mon, Aug 8, 2011

Dharamsala, Aug 8 (IANS) Lobsang Sangay, the new Kalon Tripa or the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, took the oath of office Monday morning at a ceremony held in this north Indian hill town.

The ceremony was presided over by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile, told IANS that the oath-taking ceremony was a historic occasion being attended by Tibetan diaspora settled across the globe.

He said Sangay took the oath of office at 9 a.m., 9 minutes and 9 seconds (9.9.9.), as desired by him.

Fortythree-year-old senior fellow of Harvard Law School, prime minister Sangay took over the reins of the government from 73-year-old monk-scholar Samdhong Rinpoche, who held the post for the past 10 years in two five-year terms.

Dalai Lama's envoy arrested in Nepal

2011-08-05T06:26:00.001-07:00

Kathmandu, Aug 5 (IANS)

Minutes after he held his maiden press conference in Kathmandu, Thiley Lama, exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama's envoy in Nepal, was arrested by police Friday along with his personal secretary, Subhash Acharya.

The 55-year-old representative, who is officially known as the volunteer coordinator of the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office (TRWO) in Kathmandu, was arrested for urging Nepal's government to address the rights of all refugees uniformly in the new constitution and resume issuing identity cards to Tibetan refugees in Nepal.

Sources said he was likely to be released after interrogation and being made to sign a warning bond. Thiley, the first Nepali to assume the position, was appointed only last month.

The arrest comes amidst growing complaints by the Buddhist community in Nepal that they are being increasingly hounded. Monasteries have faced media propaganda that they harbour weapons and were fomenting anti-China activities while Buddhist monks and Tibetans are arrested routinely when any official Chinese delegation visits Kathmandu with Beijing tightening screws on Nepal to stop any activity that is linked to the Dalai Lama.

Despite the high risk of being arrested, Thiley's office had Friday held a sombre press conference in a Kathmandu hotel to urge the government to address the rights of all refugees in the new constitution, scheduled to be unveiled by Aug 31.

The move came close on the heels of police arresting several people, regarded as Tibetans, for obtaining fake Nepali passports. The TRWO, earlier known as the office of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama in Nepal, was shut down by the government in 2005 under pressure by the Chinese government, which said that Tibet being a part of Nepal, such an office should not be allowed to function.

The appeal came after police arrested eight people in three separate cases for trying to obtain fake Nepali passports or seeking to travel abroad on the basis of fake documents.

Thiley said the eight people, described by the media as Tibetans, were not Tibetans. He said his office had verified their backgrounds with the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, the Tibetan Reception Centre (TRC) in Kathmandu that facilitates the travel of Tibetan refugees to India and elsewhere, and the Tibetan refugee camp in Boudha.

None of them were found to have been registered as bona fide Tibetan refugees. Also, the documents two of them were carrying, said to be issued by the TRC, were fake, Thiley said.

The incidents, he said, tarnished the image of Tibetans living in exile in Nepal and other countries. The community is now asking Nepal's communist government to resume issuing identity cards to Tibetan refugees living in Nepal.

In 1998, Nepal last issued the IDs, stopping the distribution subsequently under Beijing's instructions. China refuses to accept the existence of Tibetan refugees, saying they are illegal immigrants who should be punished strictly as per the law of the land.

There are over 20,000 Tibetan refugees living in Nepal and the halt in the issuance of IDs has left hundreds in the lurch. Hospitals could refuse to register the birth of children, banks refuse to let them open accounts and government schools refuse to admit refugee children. In addition, the government doesn't allow them to work or run businesses, creating unemployment and waste of human resource.

Human rights activists have condemned Nepal's double standards towards refugees. While it allowed Bhutanese refugees to be resettled in western countries, it has blocked the US bid to offer Tibetan refugees a new life in American cities after China opposed the move.

Though Thiley said his organisation was a non-political body concerned only with protecting the human rights of Tibetan refugees and that it was not against any person, society or state, Beijing regards it as a political entity and has been pressuring Nepal to close it down.

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2011-08-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

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Dalai Lama makes appearance on cooking show down under

2011-07-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

Watch: Dalai Lama makes appearance on cooking show down under
AFP/Relaxnews
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Seven amateur chefs on an Australian cooking show got the chance of a lifetime when their mystery dinner guest turned out to be the Dalai Lama.

In an episode of MasterChef Australia, which crowns the best amateur chef in the country, the remaining seven competitors were tasked with preparing a vegetarian meal for the spiritual leader of Tibet in a powerful segment that made both competitors and judges visibly giddy with excitement. The episode aired last week.

Throughout the three-hour cookout challenge, celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, a practicing Buddhist, coached the competitors on the Dalai Lama's favorite foods which include coriander, mushrooms, cheese and tofu.

Contestants were told to cook a dish inspired by the Dalai Lama's philosophies and came up with Japanese noodle consommé, a Middle Eastern feast with flatbread, a Sri Lankan vegetarian curry with roti, "Buddhist's delight," with mushrooms and coriander dumplings, a goat's cheese tortellini, and a steamed coconut pudding with mangosteen and a coconut crème anglaise sauce.

Though he sampled every dish, he refused to pass judgment as it goes against his beliefs.

"As a Buddhist monk, I have no right to prefer this food to that food. Anything I am offered, I must accept."

When one of the competitors breaks down in tears while presenting her dish because of a kitchen ‘disaster,' the Dalai Lama takes her hand and bows, moving Kwong and others to tears as well.

The Dalai Lama was in Australia after a whirlwind tour in the US where he gave a media interview to Ann Curry of NBC's Today Show and spoke with President Barack Obama.

To watch the video, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3opo_C-Aa8k.

Two Tibetan apps for iPhone users (iOS 4.2 or above)

2011-07-25T09:10:00.000-07:00

Two Tibetan apps for iPhone users (iOS 4.2 or above)
Apple iPhone supports Tibetan input and text, if you are using iOS 4.2 or above, go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards -> Tibetan.

The Tibetan keyboard is based on Wylie, but it is not very useful for people who haven't learned Tibetan before.

There are two apps which can be useful for travelers:

English-Tibetan-English Dictionary (free app), no examples, simple word-to-word translation only, but can be useful for basic communication. Amazingly, it's free!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tibetan-dictionary/id418873951?mt=8

Tibetan calendar (also free), maybe helpful for checking out festivals.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tibetan-calendar/id370371782?mt=8

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2011-07-25T05:04:00.000-07:00

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Proxy Server :- 192.80.7.133, Port :- 8000

For accessing internet/WAP through your mobile handset :-
GPRS APN :- ntwap
GPRS Home Page :- http://wap.ntc.net.np (You can use your favorite site link also)

For accessing internet through computer by using GPRS service in your mobile phone :-
APN :- ntnet
Leave Username, Password and any other fields blank. For sending and receiving MMS :-
MMS APN :- ntmms
MMS Home Page/Server Address :- 192.80.11.180

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2. Select Settings, configuration, personal config. setting
3. Add new (From options)
4. Select Web and provide details
a. Account name: Ntc
b. Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
c. Leave User name and Password field blank.
d. Preferred access point: No
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a. Proxy: Enable
b. Proxy Address:192.80.7.133
c. Proxy port: 8000
d. Data bearer: Packet data.
6. Select Bearer settings.
a. Packet data access point: ntwap
b. Authentication type as Normal.
c. Leave other fields as it

7. Finally, activate the above created web
8. Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet with NT Mobile GPRS service.

Note: In case if if third applications(like operamini,ebuddy,mig33) don’t work, follow these steps:

Repeat the above steps upto 3
Select Access point and provide details
Account Name: Ntc
Go to Access point settings;
Data bearer: Packet data
Go to Bearer settings:
Packet data access point: ntnet
Network type: IPv4
Authentication type: Normal
Leave other fields as blank
Save the settings and activate it
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting II for Nokia (N70, N72, N73, N76, N81, N93, N95, E63, E65, E71, E90, 3230, 3250, 5700 Xpress Music, 6120c, 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, …), LG-KT610
1. Enter the main Menu, Tools, Settings, Connection
2. Select Access points and go to options and then new access point with default settings
a. Connection Name: Ntc
b. Data bearer: Packet Data/GPRS
c. Access point name: ntwap
d. Leave username and password fields as it is
e. Authentication: Normal
f. Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
3. Select Options on left menu and go to Advanced Settings
a. Leave other fields as it is
b. Proxy serv. Address: 192.80.7.133
c. Proxy port no: 8000
4. Return back to Connection, Settings.
5. Go to Packet Data/GPRS:
a. Packet data conn: When available
b. Access point: ntwap
6. Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Make following connection if third party application is not installing/running

Follow upto point 2
1.Connection name: Ntnet
2.Access point: ntnet
3.Authentication: Normal
4.Use this setting when the third party application request for connection.

Setting for Nokia 3120

Go to Menu, Services, Settings
Go to Connection Settings
Edit one of the settings
Settings Name: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Session Mode: Permanent
Connection Security: off
Data Bearer: GPRS
Select Bearer Settings
GPRS Connection: When needed
GPRS access point: ntwap
IP address: 192.80.7.133
Authentication Type: Normal
Leave username and password blank
Save the settings and return back to menu
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Setting for Nokia 5800

Menu=>Setting=>Connectivity=>Destination=>Access Point
Automatically check for available access point
Yes
Name: NTC
Select wap services
Then go to wap services
Option-Edit
Connection name: NTC
Access point name: ntwap
Authentication : normal
Option-Advanced setting

i.proxy address: 192.80.7.133
ii.proxy port: 8000
Back
Option –new access point
Automatically check for available access point
Yes
Provide name: ntnet
Access point name: ntnet
Authentication: normal
Back, Back.

Setting I for Sony Ericsson (K330i, K530i, K550i, K580i, K608i, K700i, k750i, k770i, K790i, K800i, W200i, W350i, W380i, W580i, W800i, W810i, W850i, W880i, S500i, Z550, …)
1. Enter the main Menu, Settings, Connectivity
2. Select Data communication, Data accounts
3. Create New account (Select PS Data/GPRS)
a. Account Name: Ntc
b. Enter APN: ntwap
c. Leave the username and Password field blank
d. Press Save. (New packet data account created)
4. Return back to Connectivity and select Internet settings
5. Go to Internet Profiles and add new profile
a. Enter Name: Ntc
b. Connect using: Ntc(select the account created)
c. Save the profile (New profile is created)
6. Select the profile just created and go to More, Settings
a. Change Use Proxy: Yes
b. Proxy Address: 192.80.7.133
c. Port number:8000
d. Leave Username and password field blank
e. Save the profile and finally activate it
7. Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Setting II for Sony Ericsson (K850i, W910i, G705, …)
1. Enter the main Menu, Settings, Connectivity
2. Go to Internet settings
3. Select Connect using:
a. Add new Data Accounts, PS data
b. Give Name: Ntc
c. APN: ntwap
d. Press Save (New packete data account created)
4. Return back and edit the data account again
a. Leave other fields as it is.
b. Edit Proxy Settings
c. Set proxy on
d. Same for all servers: on
e. Go to HTTP
f. Leave username and password field blank
g. Proxy address: 192.80.7.133, Port: 8000
5. Save the settings
6. Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting III for Sony Ericsson P990i, P1i, W950

Go to Main Menu
Go to Tools, Control Panel, Connections
Select Internet Accounts and create new account
Account Name: Ntc
Address: ntnet
Press Done and add to group Account.
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting IV for Sony Ericsson (S302)

Go to Menu, Settings
Go to Connectivity, Internet Settings
Go to Accounts and create new account
Name: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Preferred connect: PS
Proxy: Use, Yes
Leave login and password blank
Proxy Address: 192.80.7.133
Port: Insecure, Port No: 8000
Select PS data:
Leave Login and password blank
APN: ntwap
Go back to Menu, Internet and Internet Settings
Go to Accounts and select the created account ‘Ntc’
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Setting for Chinese set:

Enter the main menu.
Select Services, Data account, GPRS.
Edit any of the existing Data Account.
Provide Account name:Ntc
APN: ntwap
Leave User Name and Password field blank
Authentication type: Normal
Return back to Services, WAP and Settings
Edit the existing profile
Rename profile: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Data Account: Ntc(just created in step 4)
Connection Type: HTTP
Proxy address:192.080.007.133
Proxy port:8000
Leave username and password field blank
Save the profile and activate it
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet
Most chinese sets does not support third paryt application so rest is upto customer.

Setting for Motorola V3, L6, L7:
1. Enter the main menu.
2. Select WebAccess, Web Sessions,
3. Select New Entry.
a. Name: Ntc
b. Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
c. Service Type1: HTTP
d. Proxy1: 192.80.7.133
e. Port1: 8000
f. Service Type2 : WAP
g. Proxy2: 192.80.7.133
h. Port2: 8000
i. Set Speed(Bps) : 2400
j. GPRS APN: ntwap
k. Leave everything default and press done.
4. Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for Samsung (Corby & new touch)

Go to menu
Internet
Setting
Internet Profile
Create
Set name: NTC
Access name: ntnet(must be in small letter)
Rest as it is
Save and select it
For Java application: Go to Games and Collection
More
Select NTC that has been created earlier
Save

Setting for Samsung (SGH D900i, SGH E200, E250)

Go to Main menu, Browser
Go to Profile settings
Select one of the existing settings and edit it
Profile name: Ntc
Home URL: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Bearer: GPRS first
Proxy: Enable
Go to GPRS Settings
Proxy IP: 192.80.7.133
Proxy port: 8000
APN: ntwap
Leave Login ID and password blank
Save the profile
Go back to Current profile and select Profile ‘Ntc’
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Setting for Samsung (SGH Z170,…)

Go to Main menu, Settings
Go to Connections
Create New connection
Name: Ntc
Access Name: ntwap
Auth. Type: None
Protocal: HTTP
Home URL: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Proxy Address: 192.80.7.133
Port: 8000
Leave other fields as it is and save.
Go back to Internet, Browser Settings and select the connection as ‘Ntc’
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Samsung SGH-i607(Windows Mobile)

Go to Start, Settings
Go to Connection, GPRS
Go to Menu on right bar and Add
Description: Ntc
Connects to: The Internet
Access Point: ntnet
Leave other fields as it is
Return back to Connections
Go to More
Press Menu and go to Advanced
Internet Connection: Ntc
Leave other fields as it is
Press Done
Finally go to browser
Go to Menu, Options, Connections
Uncheck “Automatically detect settings”
Select Network: The Internet
Now restart the mobile set and you are ready to browse internet

Setting for LG (KG 195, KG 200, KG300, KP320)

Go to Menu, Browser
Go to Data Account, GPRS
Select an account and edit it.
Account Name: Ntc
APN: ntwap
Leave username and password blank
Authentication Type: Normal
Save it and return back to browser
Go to Browser, WAP, Settings
Select one of the profile and edit it.
Name: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Data Account: Ntc(created above)
Connection: HTTP
Proxy Address: 192.80.7.133
Proxy Port: 8000
Leave other fields as it is.
Return back to profile and activate it.
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for LG (KE 770, KE790)

Go to Menu, Settings, Connectivity, Network
Go to GPRS Attach: When needed
Go to Network profile, Data Connections
Go to Options to create new profile
Name: Ntc
Bearer: GPRS
APN: ntwap
Press Ok and save this profile
Return back to main menu
Go to Browser, Settings, Network profile
Add new profile
Name: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Proxy: On
IP Address: 192.080.007.133
Port number: 8000
Access point: Ntc (created at step 3)
Save the profile
Return back to profile and activate it.
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for LG (KP 110, KG 970)

Create Access point firstly as follows
Go to Menu, Settings
Go to network access points
Click options and create new access point
Name: Ntc
Bearer: GPRS
APN: ntwap
Leave other fields as it is.
Now return back to browser, settings
Go to Network profiles, Options
Create new profile
Account Name: Ntc
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Proxy: On
IP Address: 192.80.7.133
Port: 8000
Access point: Select above created ‘Ntc’
Return back to Network profiles and activate the created new profile
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for Spice:

Enter main menu.
Choose Setting, Connect setting.
Choose GPRS.
Edit any of the existing operator
Account name: Ntc
APN : ntwap
Leave user name and password blank
Auth. Type : Normal
Gateway : 192.080.007.133
Port : 8000
Press ok and save it.
Return back to Menu and select services
Go to WAP Setup
Account: Ntc
Connect Type: HTTP
Homepage: http://wap.ntc.net.np
Auto offline: None
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet

Setting for T-Mobile

Press Start/Main Menu
Go to Settings, Connections, GPRS
Go to Menu on right side and Press Add
Description: Ntc
Connects to: The Internet
Access point: ntnet
Leave other fields blank and press save.
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for i-phone

Go to Menu
Go to Settings,
Go to General, Network
Go to Cellular Data Network
APN: ntnet
Leave username and password blank
Data Roaming: ON
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for HTC, O2, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson P3600i

Go to Start Menu, Settings
Go to Connections tab
Add new Modem Connection
Enter Name: Ntc
Select Modem: GPRS
Access point name: ntnet
Leave other fields as it is and finish.
Go to General Tab and give name as ‘Ntc GPRS‘
Return back to connections, Advanced Tab
Go to Select Networks and edit Network mgmt.
Programs that connect to the Internet should connect using: Ntc GPRS
Programs that connect to private network should connect using : Ntc GPRS
Restart your set and you are now ready to surf internet.

Setting for Mitsubishi:

1. Enter the main menu.
2. Go to wap and then go to setting.
3. Go to wap profile and choose any one of existing.
4. Provide profile name: Ntc
5. Homepage: wap.ntc.net.np
6. select gateway setting.
7. provide Ip:192.80.7.133
8. Enter proxy parameter.
9. provide push poxy Ip address:192.80.7.133
10. Return and select Ntc.

Black Berry

Since we have no any provision for sending the Browser from our operator to access GPRS from your blackberry sets, you are requested to download and install the third party browsers like operamini(http://operamini.com) from your mobile from connecting it to other available medium.

Then make the settings as “TCP: ntnet” in your mobile and you will be able to run GPRS in your blackberry sets.
To surf net with GPRS in your PCs
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76th birthday celebration in Nepal photos gallery by Tsering

2011-07-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

H. H. The Dalai Lama's 76th birthday celebration in Nepal photos gallery by Tsering

Nepal Bans Tibetan Assemblies on Dalai Lama's Birthday

2011-07-08T00:54:00.001-07:00

While U.S. celebrations of the Dalai Lama's birthday were quite public and high-profile, they were muted for tens of thousands of his followers in Nepal. The government banned assemblies to celebrate the Tibetan spiritual leader's birthday, citing fears of anti-Chinese demonstrations.

Riot police surrounded an elementary school in Nepal's capital Kathmandu Wednesday, where exiled Tibetans were hoping to celebrate the 76th birthday of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Tsewang Dolma is the president of the Nepal chapter of the Tibetan Youth Congress.

"Police officers were there from the early morning, 2 o'clock," said Dolma. "We tried to celebrate, but the police didn't allow anyone inside the gate."

Thousands of Tibetan refugees fled over the border into Nepal after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. More than 20,000 exiles are living in Nepal and others pass through the Himalayan nation on their way to India, where the Dalai Lama lives.

Over the past two years, Nepal has tightened restrictions on gatherings of exiled Tibetans and warned it would permit no public events to celebrate the Dalai Lama's birthday. Authorities say they fear such events would escalate into anti-China demonstrations.

Nepal officially considers Tibet part of China and has vowed to prevent such activities by Tibetan exiles.

Dolma, with the Tibetan Youth Congress, says many Tibetans living in Nepal are frustrated with the country's enforcement of the one-China policy condoned by Beijing.

"Here, the government listens [to] everything, [when] the Chinese government gives them orders," said Dolma. "I can say it's like a second Tibet, in Nepal."

Right up until this year, when he abdicated his formal political role, the Dalai Lama led a government-like administration in the Indian town of Dharamsala that cares for more than 130,000 Tibetans in India and around the world.

The Dalai Lama says he is willing to negotiate autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule.

"The issue is six million peoples' basic rights, their culture, that's the issue," he said. "So unless the central government pay seriously about that issue, the talks about my return is not relevant."

Beijing accuses him of hiding a separatist agenda, and strictly prohibits displays of his image and other public references to him in its territory.

Tibetan exiles have been on edge for months, since a monk in Chinese-controlled Tibet burned himself to death in protest of harsh rule there. Hundreds of Chinese security forces have since surrounded the young monk's monastery, and many of the monks there have reportedly been taken away for "political re-education" by Chinese officials.

BBC HARDtalk - Lobsang Sangay, Leader of the Tibetan exile movement on air by tsering dokpo Part 1

2011-06-28T13:11:00.000-07:00

BBC HARDtalk - Lobsang Sangay, Leader of the Tibetan exile movement, recently elected to head the Tibetan exile movement, and asks if Tibetan unity will fracture as leadership passes to a new generation.

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BBC HARDtalk - Lobsang Sangay, Leader of the Tibetan exile movement on air by tsering dokpo

2011-06-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

BBC HARDtalk - Lobsang Sangay, Leader of the Tibetan exile movement, recently elected to head the Tibetan exile movement, and asks if Tibetan unity will fracture as leadership passes to a new generation.

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Bodrig Punda group are orgazining Birthday Cup Basketball Tournament

2011-06-19T23:34:00.000-07:00

Bodrig Punda group are orgazining Birthday Cup Basketball Tournament starting June 18, 2011 and the matches will end on July 2, 2011

Find the matches schedule below