TWO-DAY CONFERENCE of Tibetan think tank begins
Author(s): Arvind SharmaTibet Policy Institute organises two-day seminar on China’s Repressive Policies and Crisis on Burning Tibet. Tibetan scholars gather during workshop in Dharamsala on Friday. City Air News photo; Shyam Sharma Dharamsala,...
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Mar 29, 2013 09:30
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Tibet Policy Institute organises two-day seminar on China’s Repressive Policies and Crisis on Burning Tibet. Tibetan scholars gather during workshop in Dharamsala on Friday.
City Air News photo; Shyam Sharma
Dharamsala, March 29, 2013: Over 12 Tibetan scholars, writers and journalists from across India and abroad and 70 senior civil servants of the Central Tibetan Administration, as well as representatives from all major Tibetan NGO’s based in Dharamsala, are attending the a two-day conference, to discuss in depth the major causes and ramifications of the current crisis of self-immolation protests in Tibet. The conference started in Dharmsala on Friday.
The keynote address was given by the Minister for the Department of Security of the CTA, Ngodup Dongchung. He said that under the Dalai Lamas’ advice, the movement by Tibetan’s in Tibet has been only through peaceful protest, especially since 2008. He highlighted this as very precious and valuable advice that should be explained to the world. Other international struggles should look at our path of non-violence and see the benefits of it. He said, “I cannot see that it is necessary for anyone to give advice to those living in Tibet, as they have done many things that we have no idea about.”
Chinese authorities accuse the Tibetan administration and His Holiness the Dalai Lama of encouraging the self immolators. However it is not suitable to encourage them as their consciousness is much higher than ours.
“Today I would like to say that those who write on the Tibetan websites or blogs anonymously that they should think carefully about what they say,” said Dongchung,
Kasur Kirti Rinpoche, the spiritual head of Kirti monasteries, was a special guest at the inaugural session on March 29, said, “Under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama the Tibetan’s are following a peaceful protest, however this does not mean that they cannot fight with the Chinese.”
He began by highlighting the importance of all the Tibetan’s are flowing with the Tibetan Administration due to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice. He spoke of the Tibetan self- immolators, who are also going the way of non-violence due to His Holiness’ recommendation.
“To date 113 Tibetan’s have self immolated, these people of course, have been killed. These self immolations in Tibet are not stopping,” Kasur Kirti Rinpoche said.
Kirti Rinpoche said that now the situation is that Tibetans wear traditional clothes and Monks who wear robes in the street face problems as they are targeted by the Chinese authorities.
