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New Buddhist Forums
Loden Jinpa has started up a promising new Buddhist Forums site. He blogs about it here.
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The Resistance in Burma; Thai PM supports Burma's constitutional efforts
Rachel Aspden visits the forgotten part of Burma: ethnic groups in the east oppressed by the junta.
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej voices support for the Burmese junta's farcical constitution referendum, which will again formally bar Aung San Suu Kyi from running for office. The reason given? She's married to a foreigner.
EarthRights International lambasts Chevron:
The American energy giant Chevron has been accused of complicity in human rights abuses through its investment in a natural gas pipeline in Burma. . .
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Death in Sri Lanka
73 killed in recent fighting in Sri Lanka. 70,000 estimated killed since 1983.
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Ant-French boycott fizzles
It's hard to stay mad at the French. They make such nice things.
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More Arrests in Tibet Ahead of Everest Photo-Ops
China doesn't care what you think:
China has stepped up persecution of Buddhist monks with mass detentions, Tibet activists said Wednesday, as China prepares to take the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.
The actions came a day after six monks were given lengthy prison sentences in the first trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet's capital last month.
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Torch enters China
After a troubled world tour, the torch arrived on Chinese soil, in Hong Kong. Several potential protesters were turned away at the airport.
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China Jails 30
Jail sentences for those accused of participating in last month's protests / riots.
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Free Tibet flags
Made in China. But so is everything else. China is a factory. Its decisions are business decisions.
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China agrees to meet Dalai Lama's envoys
At heart China is a business, and this turmoil was hurting the bottom line:
China appeared to bend to international pressure on Friday as the government announced it would meet with envoys of the Dalai Lama, an unexpected shift that comes as violent Tibetan demonstrations in western China have threatened to cast a pall over the Beijing Olympics in August.
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Double Whammy
When it rains literary nonfiction, it pours: books by not one but two Tricycle contributing editors hit the stacks this July. Memoirist Mark Matousek’s When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living tracks the sorrows and triumphs of hundreds of survivors, seeking to answer the question: How does a person survive his own life? Mixed with universal stories of illness and loss are profiles of people who have suffered under extraordinary circumstances—a Tibetan nun who was tortured by Chinese soldiers at the age of thirteen; a Sudanese man who was kidnapped as a child and forced into slavery for ten years. Matousek draws from parables, scientific studies, philosophy, and literature in order to create a nuanced portrait of endurance and meaning wrought from adversity.
The Wishing Year, by Noelle Oxenhandler, tells the story of the author’s experiment with the art of wishing. One New Year’s Day, Oxenhandler decides to change her life.
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Smooth Run in Australia
The Canberra run went smoothly enough. And more horrifying violence in Sri Lanka - perhaps 90 dead in one day.
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America's Shame -- 5% of the world's population and 22% of the prisoners
"Whatever the reason, the gap between American justice and that of the rest of the world is enormous and growing."
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Burma Bombs Blamed on Students
Two small explosions in Rangoon (no casualties) are being called the work of an exiled student group.
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Rudd and Hu; Buddhism and Gender
Buddhism and gender, from the Lehigh University newspaper.
Plus, an account of Tibetan Buddhism from the Chinese media and the story of a Tibetan refugee in Salt Lake City.
Hu Jintao and Kevin Rudd of Australia are having an interesting back and forth over the Tibet issue:
President Hu Jintao made a terrific speech at the opening of the Boao Forum on Hainan island that Rudd attended.
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Dalai Lama to US: Help Resolve Tibet Crisis; Torch Everest Coverage Altered
If he only knew the U.S. can't stand up to China.
Japan, a little irked at China's belligerent rhetoric, will allow protests when the torch visits.
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Tibet in National Geographic
More beautiful pictures (and more) from National Geo. [Photo: A Tibetan boy dresses up as a Chinese policeman. By Steve McCurry.]
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Torch keeps running into trouble: Pro-China groups battle pro-Tibet groups
One of the torch bearers pulls out of the Canberra, Australia section of the torch's run:
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) president and the ACT Australian of the Year, Lin Hatfield-Dodds, says she is taking a stand for human rights.
The Olympic torch has become a beacon for pro-Tibet supporters as it makes its way around the world in the lead up to the Beijing Games.
Ms Hatfield-Dodds says the recent scenes in Tibet are disturbing.
"For many other people globally the torch has come to stand for a symbol around human rights and around rights for citizens," she said.
"I felt I really needed to be very clear in my stance, which is very pro-human rights obviously, so I've chosen not to run."
Hunger-strikers hit the road to Canberr
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