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FROM THE NEWS DESK:
ACTIVISTS PROTEST OLYMPICS AT EVEREST
Pema Dhondup interviews TENZIN DORJEE, one of the protesters who was arrested at the base of Mt. Everest to draw attention
to China's proposed route for the Olympic torch where they unfurled a large banner reading ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM, FREE TIBET.
Beijing is scheduled to host the next Olympic Games in 2008 and the International Olympic Committee has suggested that the
Olympic torch enter Tibet via Nepal and the southern slope of Mt. Everest. The historic protest was organized by STUDENTS
FOR A FREE TIBET that boasts 650 chapters in 30 countries. Will their efforts affect the International Olympic Committee's
decision?
Click here for more info about Students for Free Tibet and the Mt. Everest protest
For downloadable FREE TIBET ring tones, click here!
Click here for more info about the missing Panchen Lama and Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
TENZIN TSUNDUE: REFLECTIONS OF A POETIC FREEDOM FIGHTER
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"I would strongly recommend a spell in prison to anyone. It is really essential for your personal growth."
Writer and
activist TENZIN TSUNDUE has in recent years become an icon of the Tibetan freedom movement. At the age of 22 he walked into
Tibet and was promptly arrested, spending 3 months in a Lhasa prison, singing songs to his fellow prisoners through the walls.
In 2002, he grabbed the spotlight with a daring protest in a Mumbai hotel when he scaled 14 floors to unfurl a Tibetan flag
at a business meeting with the visiting Chinese premier. In an Elle magazine poll, Tsundue was voted one of the most stylish
people in India. His poetry and essays have won him numerous international awards but his crowning achievement, he says, are
the letters of appreciation from young Tibetans. Born in a roadside tent to refugee constructions workers, Tsundue knows neither
the date nor place of his birth. He has become the voice and bard of a new generation of restless Tibetans whose identity
crisis he so vividly expresses.
pull your ceiling half-way down
and you can create a mezzanine for me
your walls open into cupboards
is there an empty shelf for me
- from 'Kora,' a book of poems and essays by Tenzin Tsundue
Visit our WEB EXTRAS page to hear a LONGER VERSION of the interview with TENZIN TSUNDUE
Click to read 'The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama'
AN INTERVIEW WITH THUPTEN JINPA:
TRANSLATOR FOR HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
Since 1985 Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama and has traveled extensively throughout
the West in this capacity. He trained as a monk in S. India and then became a Geshe before traveling to Britain to study
Western Philosophy at Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He has translated and edited more than ten books by
the Dalai Lama. His own works include numerous contributions to various collections and academic journals and several works
in Tibetan. He is also the president and founder of the 'Institute of Tibetan Classics' in Montréal, Canada, and the editor-in-chief
of the translation project 'The Library of Tibetan Classics,' being developed by the Institute. He lives in Montréal with
his wife and two young daughters.
The Institute of Tibetan Classics
Visit our WEB EXTRAS page to hear a LONGER VERSION of the interview with THUPTEN JINPA
ASK TENZIN: THE TIBET CONNECTION'S ANSWER MAN
This April 25th was the 18th birthday of the PANCHEN LAMA, the second highest lama after the Dalai Lama, who was kidnapped
by Chinese authorities in Tibet when he was 6 years old. This month, Rebecca Novick explores the Tibetan Buddhist system of
reincarnate lamas such as the Panchen Lama, called tulkus in Tibetan.
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