Dalai Lama

Some Chinese Students At Uc San Diego Condemn Choice Of Dalai Lama As Commencement Speaker

... The group also did not respond to a message to its Facebook page. The university’s announcement of the Dalai Lama as commencement speaker generated more than 1,600 comments on Facebook, some from individuals who described the Dalai Lama as a separatist or even a terrorist. “It is disrespectful to those Chinese students who fought so hard for these years in UC San Diego and just to find out that their commencement speaker is someone who wants to separate their home country,” wrote one commenter whose profile identified him as a UCSD student. Writing for the main UCSD student newspaper, The Guardian, Ruixuan Wang wrote that the “main reason why many Chinese students are upset is that our university shows little consideration about cultural respect, as he is a politically sensitive person in China.”. Wang wrote, “Commencement is ...

Dalai Lama’s Arunachal Visit Will Hit Ties With India

... concerned” about the planned visit of the Dalai Lama to the northeastern Indian state, which it claims is disputed and part of south Tibet, in the coming weeks. It will cause “serious damage” to Sino-India ties, Geng Shuang, MFA spokesperson said at a press briefing on Friday. “China is strongly opposed to Dalai visiting disputed areas,” he said. Read more. Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit will cause serious damage in ties with India: China. “China is gravely concerned over such information. China’s position on eastern section of China India border dispute is consistent and clear. The Dalai-clique has long been engaging in anti-China separatist activities and its record on the border question is not that good,” he said. The nationalistic tabloid, Global Times, picked up from where Geng had stopped last week. “These Indian officials apparently didn’t realize, or deliberately ignored, the severe consequences the Dalai Lama’s trip would bring. The 14 th Dalai Lama is by no means a spiritual leader but a Tibetan separatist. Allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the disputed area will inevitably trigger confrontation, undermine the stability of the region and sour ...

Dalai Lama’s Visit To Arunachal Will Inevitably Trigger Confrontation , Warns Global Times

... the daily said, “These Indian officials apparently didn't realise, or deliberately ignored, the severe consequences the Dalai Lama's trip would bring. The 14 th Dalai Lama is by no means a spiritual leader but a Tibetan separatist.”. The write-up stressed that Indian policy towards the Dalai Lama was misguided. “For a long time, some Indians have considered the Dalai Lama as a strategic asset. They believe that India could gain many benefits by using the Dalai issue as leverage. For instance, making an issue of the Dalai Lama could serve as a diplomatic tool to deal with China's growing economic and political influence in South Asia. However, they overestimate the political value of the Dalai Lama and his group while miscalculating China's determination to safeguard its core interests,” it observed. ‘Dalai card ineffective’. The op-ed highlighted that an “increasing number of Western leaders have shut ...

Chinese Students In The Us Are Using Inclusion And Diversity To Oppose A Dalai Lama Graduation Speech

... the least politically active of all student groups on US campuses. According to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles of first-year students across nearly 200 universities, students who identify as “Asian” remain less likely to participate in protests compared to whites, blacks, and Latinos. Yet several factors could cause Chinese overseas students to grow more vocal in expressing their opinions in matters of politics, which at times may or may not conform with views held by most Westerners. For one thing, more overseas Chinese students are studying in the US than ever before. According to the Institute of International Education, more than 304,000 international students were attending university in the US during the 2014-2015 academic year, marking a nearly fivefold increase from a decade prior. UCSD, along with other public universities in California and in the Midwest, has seen some of the highest uptake in admissions from Chinese international students. Data published in the fall of 2015 placed the school’s total overseas Chinese student ...

The Dalai Lama's Secret Weapon

... the washcloth so comically, the Dalai Lama admitted it was, in part, because he is practical and gets hot. But he also hinted that there was something deeper: It's important for leaders, particularly spiritual leaders, to "act like a human being" and to be playful. The Dalai Lama takes in the crowd at the Emory-Tibet symposium of Scholars and Scientists held at the Drepung Monastic University in December. Often, "everyone too much formal," he said, "That is self-torture.". Your own personal animal totem mascot. And though he knows he must respect those leaders, despite "no word, no movement" from them, he has sometimes developed "a strange thinking" and often hopes something unexpected will happen to make that leader act more "like a human being.". "I had this experience (in) 1954 when I was in Peking," His Holiness said. "Some Indian ambassador, he call on me, come to my room, then as usual, some Chinese foreign ministries officials come. "Everyone too much ...

John Oliver Meets The Dalai Lama & Investigates Trump's 'stupid Watergate

... them off vodka by giving them horse milk?". But of course, there was still that pesky matter of the immediate Trump news to tackle, and Oliver did that at the start of the show by looking at the Jeff Sessions/Russia mess (Sessions is "the unfortunate result of Dobby the House Elf’s one-night stand with a Confederate flag"), and Trump's subsequent attempts at distracting the nation from his scandals by claiming (without any evidence) that Obama had tapped his phones. "It is not clear what is really going on here yet," Oliver said. "One possibility is that this all amounts to what I'm going to call 'Stupid Watergate': potential scandal with all the intrigue of Watergate, except everyone involved is really bad at everything. And the relevant questions isn't so much, 'What did the president know and when did he know it?' as it is, 'Is the president physically capable of knowing things at all?'". Oliver also took extreme pleasure in Trump's inability to spell simple words correctly in his many unhinged tweetstorms: "In 1992 Dan Quayle misspelled 'potato' and it became one of the most famous dumb moments in political history," Oliver said. "We ...

Executive Vanessa Guthrie On Why Her Ideal Cycling Partner Is The Dalai Lama

... about riding with others. Hills or the flat. Well, that is a silly question! I don't mind climbing hills, but I hate coming down again. And flat sections can get really boring, so for me a mixture is always best. Love most about cycling. You don't need anyone else to do it, and you can subconsciously process a lot of stuff while you are out on the road. Dislike about cycling. Most like to go on a long ride with. If I could ride with anyone in the world, I would pick the Dalai Lama. I think his calm presence would help soothe my constant fear of falling off. Otherwise, my husband would be great (he doesn't ride at the moment, but I am working on it). Do you think you will ever be too old to ride. If you had asked me that question last June I would have said I am already too old to ride, but now I am shifting towards ...

Chinese Consulate Behind University Protest Against Dalai Lama

... Dynasty: Economic Death by a Thousand Cuts,” published by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a cybersecurity think tank, CSSAs are active in more than 150 U. S. universities. Officially, the CSSAs help native Chinese students by acting as a bridge between China and foreign institutions. On the other hand, “CSSAs may also be a pivotal overt espionage platform for the Chinese government,” says the ICIT report. “The vast majority of CSSAs receive funding from the Chinese government or have an active liaison via the consulate back to the CCP,” it states. It adds that CSSAs may work to “persuade students to act as temporary or prolonged intelligence assets,” and that “through CSSAs, students can be manipulated into passing intellectual property or research back to their home state or planting malware on a university system.”. According to an FBI podcast on April 14, 2014, it’s not uncommon for foreign intelligence agencies to manipulate students to achieve their objectives—and the students are often unaware they are being used until they’re already in over their heads. “To foster the relationship, foreign intelligence operatives will flatter and ...

Outcry Over Dalai Lama Threatens Free Speech

... mother country”. In the end, the article expresses the determination of CSSA to take “strong measures” to protest the speech by the Dalai Lama. This incident is just an add-on to a series of anti-free speech outbursts on UC campuses. Two years ago, students at Berkeley tried to remove the political polemicist Bill Maher from the commencement speech, and in early February prevented right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos from giving a speech. However, this time the protesters are motivated by a far more invidious sentiment than political correctness—blind patriotism. The claim of the Dalai Lama’s intention to “sabotage racial harmony” is highly dubious. It makes the strong assumption that there is an already established racial harmony, which requires strong evidence. But this is irrelevant here, as what is at stake is the core of liberal democracy: free speech. Free speech, in its broad sense, consists of both the tolerance for the right of others to speak, and the independence with which we think and speak. The whims of the Chinese Embassy ...

Dalai Lama Violates 'respect, Tolerance, Equality

... from Quartz Magazine, an offshoot of The Atlantic, students at the University of California, San Diego are concerned about an upcoming visit from the Dalai Lama, who they consider to be a threat to the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER. The announcement triggered outrage among Chinese students who view the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as an oppressive figure threatening to divide a unified China. A group of them now plans to meet with the university chancellor to discuss the content of the upcoming speech. The awkwardness doesn’t end there. As the aggrieved students have trumpeted their opposition, their rhetoric has borrowed elements from larger campus activist movements across the United States. The upshot: What Westerners might perceive as Communist Party orthodoxy is mingling weirdly with academia’s commitment to diversity, political correctness, and other championed ...

Lessons From Meditating With The Dalai Lama

... about recently or one of the philosophical areas from the earlier sessions. Religious thoughts trigger brain's reward systems. He wanted me to separate the problem or issue from everything else by placing it in a large, clear bubble. With my eyes closed, I thought of something nagging at me - something I couldn't quite solve. As I placed the physical embodiment of this problem into the bubble, several things started to happen very naturally. The problem was now directly in front of me, floating weightlessly. In my mind, I could rotate it, spin it or flip it upside-down. It was an exercise to develop hyper-focus. Less intuitively, as the bubble was rising, it was also disentangling itself from any other attachments, such as subjective emotional considerations. I could visualize it, as the problem isolated itself, and came into a clear-eyed view. Too often, we allow unrelated emotional factors to blur the elegant and practical ...