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This is a very good blog. Keep writing, Jigme-la.
thank you, Woeser and others.
I will try to help.
Best wishes for Tibetans and Tibet
Great blog, really helped me to understand
hello there all I was just wondering is it posible to go to tibet and become one of the monks?
Wow Jigmela, I didn’t know you have a blog. I am very impressed!
If you don’t mind I’m going put up this site on the SFT Canada Facebook group:)
Just discovered your blog 5 minutes ago and can already see that I will be learning so much from it. Thank you.
keep writing but don’t forget to experience and feel simultaneously, space cadet.
What a wonderful blog you have:)
I would like very much to bring your blog to Facebook (I am there under my name but entirely dedicated to Human Rights and Tibet) and to Twitter
(http://twitter.com/buddhachild), but I do not see any possibillities doing so..there is no T or f button.
Many more people need to know about your writings:)
You are truly amazing.
Now, to the extent that the tastes of individuals are modifiable by those individuals, it may well be that individuals are, to that extent, accountable for their tastes. ,
A wonderful forum for debates and discussions about TIBET, but to my sad knowledge, Tibetans are not that active on the net, it is always mostly our supporters. I have started a group or a separate blog to talk Tibet, discuss Tibet and envision Tibet as TIBET VISION, access @ http://www.tibetvision.co.nr just started…everyone welcome to talk or post links to view points about Tibet, Tibet and just Tibet!
thank you!
I have enjoyed your blog and like how there are many different perspectives on various issues!
Look forward to reading more =]
~Elizabeth
Tampa, Florida, USA
ich freue mich, diese Seite gefunden zu haben!
Das Schicksal Tibets ist in den letzten Jahren um die Welt gezogen und hat vielen Staatsoberhäupter die Augen geöffnet.
Dankeschön und sonnige Grüße
It’s good to see an articel about the connection between Native Americans and Tibet.
A few of my native will be glad to read this
May All Beings Benifit
Padma Yonten
I am writing an essay on the Younghusband expedition to Tibet. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on secondary academic sources that I could use as a part of my research.
Thanks for post from Australia
Jozefin
Hiya Everybody, I’m not brand-new to your site but I decided today was as good as time as any to say whats up, so.. well greetings
The following is a copy of letter sent by Rebecca and Jigme” <rebdorj@yahoo.com from Paris about the New Representative:
Dear Your Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Excellencies of the Kashag and Members of Parliament, Honorable Members of the Department of Information & International Relations, European Representative Kelsang Gyaltse,
It was with great dismay that I learned of the appointment of Mr. Thupten Gyatso as European Representative to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Having been committed to the Tibetan non-violent struggle for peaceful change for nearly twenty years now, seeing such an appointment has made me question the government-in-exile’scapacity: now that His Holiness is retiring from the government, is the Tibetan government losing all its lessons learned from his guidance to become a corrupt, clan-oriented sort of banana republic? On the surface, this is what it would seem as Mr. Thupten Gyatso could not be further from an appropriate representation of anything to do with Tibet.
After witnessing so much verbal (not to mention numerous reports of physical) abuse from him not only on myself, but on many French Tibet supporters and on Tibetans as well, I cannot understand how information flow was so thwarted that someone in the government could actually think he was qualified to be a diplomat.
How was he elected for so long by the Tibetan Community in France?
Firstly, he was not elected as President the second time he ran, but the winner, Mr. Thinley, (too busy with his restaurant business, Norbulingka, and feeling shy about his level of spoken French) designated Thupten Gyatso as president! Basically, Mr. Thupten Gyatso is the only Tibetan in France with enough free time for the position as he is kept by his well-off French partner. No other Tibetan in the community has enough time (due to either children or work or a business of their own) nor ambition (often stalled by difficulties mastering the French language for necessary speech-giving) to accept the presidency.
And yet Mr. Thupten Gyatso has never worked in France. He has no professional qualifications and no university degrees to speak of. The past 7 or so years as president, he has managed to improve his speaking style (to the detriment of French supporters who could stand neither his aggressive style of speaking, nor the aggressive content of his speeches). Ironically, the majority of Tibetans in France are recent arrivals who do not understand their president’s speeches in French. They see a fiery speaker with a microphone and think their president is powerful…, however those who have understood him have distanced themselves from the Tibet support actions.
Those activists who have stuck with the cause despite Mr. Thupten Gyatso’s unacceptable approach have been victims of smear campaigns and accusations worthy of a primary school play-yard. So, activists have not only had to take on the abuses of the Chinese government, but also the manipulative ignorance of the Tibet Community president !
With the detriment he has brought to the Tibetan cause in France, one can imagine the damage he could do as a diplomat at the European level!
Please find here below an official email I was obliged to write to the director of the Pagode de Vinceness in April 2009 regarding the destructive behavior I encountered in my dealings with Mr. Thupten Gyatso. I am the on-site guardian of the French Buddhist Union’s ceremony site (The Pagode de Vincennes) where most big Buddhist celebrations are held in Paris. I deal with most of Paris’s Buddhist communities when they rent the site for their festivities, prayers or cultural activities. I wrote the email in French. A translation in English follows. Out of politeness, I did not use his name explicitly, but referred to him as “the organizer”.
Very neat blog! Thank you! Keep up the great work!