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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Tibet

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri in Xigaze, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan. 7, 2025. (Xinhua via AP)
January 7, 2025, 11:26 am
At least 95 killed, 130 injured as 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Tibet
Officials say 1,000 houses damaged as result of relatively shallow tremor; epicenter was about 75 km northeast of Mount Everest; aftershocks felt throughout western China and Nepal
By KEN MORITSUGU
An activist pays his respect in front of portraits of Tibetan political prisoners released in 2015 from Chinese jails during an event organized by Students for a Free Tibet in Dharamshala, India, December 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
December 23, 2024, 8:51 am
In Dharamshala, nonviolent Tibetan leaders grapple with Chinese occupation, Gaza war
As Israel and regional terror organizations battle it out, pacifist Buddhist scholars and activists see parallels – and crucial differences – between themselves and the Middle East
By Eliyahu Freedman
In this December 3, 2018, file photo, residents line up inside the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center which has previously been revealed by leaked documents to be a forced indoctrination camp at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP/Ng Han Guan, File)
December 19, 2020, 1:09 pm
Olympic Committee accused of ignoring human rights for 2022 Beijing Games
Groups speaking for Tibetans, Uighurs and others representing Hong Kong say international body has ‘turned a blind eye’ to systematic violations
By Stephen Wade
Rabbi Dror Shaul prays with his children in the Himalayan mountains near his Chabad centers close to Dharamshala. (Courtesy)
September 18, 2018, 10:12 pm
How a Himalayan Chabad house’s wildly popular rabbi almost became a Tibetan monk
After a near-death experience while studying at a Buddhist monastery, Dror Shaul returned to Judaism — and India — setting up an outreach center for 20,000 travelers a year
By Nadine Wojakovski
Sikyong Lobsang Sangay (courtesy Department of International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala)
June 25, 2018, 2:43 pm
In 1st Israel visit, a Tibetan leader quietly seeks support, hails Jews’ return
Lobsang Sangay makes low-key trip, does not meet with Israeli officials, encourages nonviolence without taking a side
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, February 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 5, 2015, 10:36 pm
Obama invokes Crusades, Inquisition in condemning IS
President castigates those who seek to ‘hijack religion,’ says ‘no God condones terror’
By Nedra Pickler
US President Barack Obama, right, and the Dalai Lama during a meeting in Washington on July 16, 2011 (photo credit: CC BY SFT HQ/Flickr)
February 21, 2014, 7:53 am
Over China’s protests, Obama to host Dalai Lama
Beijing calls exiled leader ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’; administration: Meeting doesn’t signal support for Tibet independence
By Stephen Collinson and Shaun Tandon
Known as "iron man," the statue -- carved from a meteorite -- was brought to Germany by a Nazi-backed expedition inspired by the Third Reich's racist ideology. (Elmar Buchner/University of Stuttgart via AP)
September 29, 2012, 6:02 am
Scientists: Nazis even took art from outer space
Researchers believe statue brought to Germany from Tibet was carved from a meteorite
By Frank Jordans
Gavin Gross
September 10, 2012, 5:51 pm
Gavin Gross
At the end of the world, at home
In a remote Tibetan Buddhist former kingdom, backpackers warm their hearts with Shabbat meals, yiddishkeit and Indian whiskey
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun speaks to the media in Damascus. (photo credit: AP)
February 18, 2012, 2:22 pm
Chinese ruling party mouthpiece praises ‘No’ vote on Syria resolution
Communist Party paper says Beijing’s opposition ‘courageous,’ ‘worthy of merit,’ indicates rising Chinese influence in international affairs
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