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Dalai Lama: Tibet not open, happy
Panchen Lama's comments designed 'to please Beijing'

Wednesday, December 28, 2005; Posted: 6:09 p.m. EST (23:09 GMT)
The Story of His Holiness the Panchen Lama



The 11th Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, son of Kunchok Phuntsok and Dechen Choedon,
was born on April 25, 1989 and was officially proclaimed as the true reincarnate of the 10th Panchen Lama, who
died unexpectedly after delivering an historic anti-Chinese government speech.



The young Panchen Lama is presently the youngest political prisoner in the world and we appeal to the international community, non governmental organizations and every individual to demand the Chinese authorities release and ensure the safety and well-being of H.H. the Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1424133.stm

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DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) -- The Dalai Lama has rejected a depiction of Tibet as open and happy by the most senior Buddhist in Tibet, the Beijing-sanctioned 16-year-old Panachen Lama.

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday the Panchen Lama had obviously wanted to please Chinese authorities by praising Tibet for its political stability and prosperity.

In a rare interview a few days ago with China's Xinhua news agency, the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, said he had seen "ample freedom" in Tibet in the past decade.

The Panchen Lama, who along with his parents is under China's protection, told Xinhua: "I've been to many places in the past decade and witnessed the ample freedom enjoyed by individuals and religious organisations alike.

"Living Budhhas like myself are able to perform religious rituals under the wing of the Chinese constitution and other laws," he said.

But in an interview with Reuters, the 71-year-old Dalai Lama painted a very different picture of Tibet, saying that torture and human rights abuses were still the norm.

The Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism and its political struggle, said he was saddened by reports monks had been killed and tortured by Chinese authorities for refusing to denounce him as a "separator" bent on damaging China.

"I had stressed if they have to denounce me then please denounce me -- no problem," he said, in his palace beneath snow-tipped Himalayan peaks in northern India.

"Their safety is more important. Just please denounce me," he said.

The Panchen Lama is the second most senior post in Tibet's main Gelugpa Buddhist sect after the Dalai Lama.

Before the young boy was chosen, the Chinese government removed another Panchen Lama who was chosen with the approval of the Dalai Lama -- the exiled Tibet leader whom China calls a traitorous separatist.

Many of Tibet's people remain secretly loyal to the Dalai Lama's chosen Panchen Lama.

The young Panchen Lama's comments were rejected by the Dalai Lama and exiled supporters of Tibetan autonomy. Some say the teenager is a political prisoner.

"So, obviously the Panchen Lama has to speak what his superiors want," said the Dalai Lama. "It is very difficult."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tibet.dalailama.reut/index.html

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Dalai Lama Wants Korean Reunification
FEBRUARY 11, 2006 06:33
by Jeong-Gook Yoon ([email protected])

The Dalai Lama, Tibet��s spiritual and political leader (71), who is currently staying at Tibetan University, Varanasi, India, expressed his wishes for the two Koreas to find new ways to coexist soon as he met with female monks from South Korea on February 9.

��South and North Korea have the same culture, the same race and the same language. So the two Koreas have every reason to be able to achieve a legitimate reunification. Yet, North Korea is still ruled by a dictatorship, which will present some obstacles in their road to reunification. I hope, however, that the two Koreas will bring about a national reunification without any bloody war,�� he said.

On that day, the Dalai Lama was visited by 16 members of ��Samsohoe,�� which means ��a group of three smiles,�� including Buddhist nuns, Catholic and Anglican nuns, and provosts of Won-Buddhism, who are on a pilgrimage to sacred places around the world.

The Dalai Lama said, ��I heard Christianity and Buddhism have a sour relationship in Korea, but I am very glad to see nuns and monks from different religions help one another to make a pilgrimage.��

The Dalai Lama, who currently heads the Tibetan government in exile, expressed his intention to visit Korea if the appropriate time comes.

He has been fighting for harmony between religions since 1975, and pointed out, ��Religion has been and still is a cause for religious conflict and bloody wars. A harmony among religious people can make a great contribution to peace in the world.��

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006021174488

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Killing Bin Laden will inspire 10 more: Dalai Lama
Mar 31 10:57 PM US/Eastern

The Dalai Lama says that were Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden killed that hatred would cause another 10 like him to spring up, in an interview with a British newspaper.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told The Daily Telegraph that terrorists should be treated humanely.

He also revealed the workings of his relationship with US President George W. Bush, said Westerners had become too self-absorbed and repeated his opposition to homosexuality in a wide-ranging interview.

The Dalai Lama said modern terrorism was born out of jealousy of Western lifestyles.

"Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion, rather than intelligence," the 70-year-old monk said at the seat of his government-in-exile in the northern Indian hilltop town of Dharamsala.

"It prevents followers from thinking as individuals and about the good of the world.

"This new terrorism has been brewing for many years. Much of it is caused by jealousy and frustration at the West because it looks so highly developed and successful on television. Leaders in the East use religion to counter that, to bind these countries together."

Terrorists, he warned, must be treated humanely.

"Otherwise, the problem will escalate. If there is one Bin Laden killed today, soon there will be 10 Bin Ladens. Awesome. Ten Bin Ladens killed, the hatred is spread; 100 bombed, and 1,000 lose members of their families."

Although he appeared not to approve of the war in Iraq, he was admiring of Bush.

"He is very straightforward," said the monk.

"On our first visit, I was faced with a large plate of biscuits. President Bush immediately offered me his favourites, and after that, we got on fine. On my next visit, he didn't mind when I was blunt about the war.

"By my third visit, I was ushering him into the Oval Office. I was astonished by his grasp of Buddhism."

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 when Beijing crushed an anti-Chinese uprising there.

He is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West and has been accused of being obsessed with the trappings of fame there.

"I never asked people like (US actor) Richard Gere to come, but it is foolish to stop them," he told the Telegraph.

"My attitude is to give everyone some of my time. If I can contribute in any way to their happiness, that makes me happy."

He told the broadsheet that Westerners had become self-absorbed, burdened with too much choice.

"It is fascinating. In the West, you have bigger homes, yet smaller families; you have endless conveniences -- yet you never seem to have any time. You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don't bother to cross the road to meet your neighbours," he said.

"I don't think people have become more selfish, but their lives have become easier and that has spoilt them. They have less resilience, they expect more, they constantly compare themselves to others and they have too much choice -- which brings no real freedom."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/31/060401035006.59wi4hgk.html