Global News Post: Dalai Lama

India, China Meeting Off Over Dalai Lama

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Indian officials say a meeting between Indian and Chinese diplomats has been cancelled after <st1:city w:st="on">Beijing</st1:city> objected to a scheduled speech in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:place></st1:city> by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Authorities say <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> has refused <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s request to cancel the Dalai Lama's address.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Diplomats from the two Asian nations were to begin meeting Monday to discuss long-standing border issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Dalai Lama is set to speak Wednesday at the Global Buddhist Congregation in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Tensions over <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tibet</st1:place></st1:country-region> have risen as several Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns have recently set themselves on fire, demanding greater religious and cultural freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Thousands of Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, fled into exile in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> following an anti-Chinese uprising in 1959. <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>'s Communist Party leadership says the Dalai Lama is intent on creating an independent <st1:country-region w:st="on">Tibet</st1:country-region>, although the spiritual leader has said often that he would accept autonomy for the region within <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India, China Meeting Off Over Dalai Lama

Indian officials say a meeting between Indian and Chinese diplomats has been cancelled after Beijing objected to a scheduled speech in New...

Russian Buddhists want Dalai Lama to visit

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line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1594488894" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />ELISTA (RIA Novosti) - Buddhists in Russia's Kalmykia   region have asked the Foreign Ministry to allow the Dalai Lama to visit the   country, a representative of a Kalmyk central temple said.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: .05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia has consistently refused to allow the Dalai Lama to   visit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: .05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kalmykia, on the Caspian north coast, is European Russia's   only <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stages-Meditation-Dalai-Lama/dp/1559391979?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Buddhis</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1559391979" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />t-dominated region.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: .05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier this year the Dalai Lama announced his retirement   as Tibetan political leader and said he would hand power to an elected   successor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: .05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; 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Russian Buddhists want Dalai Lama to visit

ELISTA (RIA Novosti) - Buddhists in Russia's Kalmykia region have asked the Foreign Ministry to allow the Dalai Lama to visit ...