Recently I introduced briefly the topic of Christian missionaries in Tibet on this blog. The papers by Bray and Engelhardt I recommended in that post deal mainly with the history of missionaries in Tibet before […]
Tag: Tibet
Christian Missionaries in Tibet: Between Tolerance and Dogmatism
Recently I stumbled upon a discussion about Christian missionaries in Tibet. The person was very insistent that Tibetans were extremely intolerant to Christian missionaries, that Tibetans had killed and expelled Christian missionaries, and that […]
When were the monasteries destroyed in Tibet?
I have to confess that I am not much familiar with the history of Tibet/China and that I am in a learning process. My interest mainly comes from a sense of justice I have […]
Human Rights in Tibet before China’s Invasion or Liberation – ‘The Truth’ about Tibet, the Dalai Lamas and Tibetans
Torture and Execution Ordered by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Throughout the time of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, various foreign journalists, officials and explorers visited Tibet and were astounded by the atrocities that met them in […]
China is criminalizing self-immolators, arresting protesters’ friends and confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes
Nearly 100 Tibetan monks, nuns and lay people have set themselves on fire since 2009. All of them calling for Beijing to allow greater religious freedom and the return from exile of the Tibetan spiritual […]
Trying to Understand the Self-immolations of Tibetans
I think for many Westerners or Europeans it is still hard to understand the self-immolations of Tibetans. Someone asked a Tibetan Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku. His answer was*: There is a discussion about whether the […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 