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Upcoming Public Talk and Film Screening in Vancouver
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Lhamo Tso on Voicing Tibetan Courage April 10, 2012 – 7 pm The Canada Tibet Commitee (CTC) – Vancouver is honoured to host Lhamo Tso for a public talk and a film screening of “Leaving Fear Behind.” Her husband, Dhondup Wangchen, created this 30-minute documentary film in 2008. He filmed clandestinely in Tibet, hoping to... Read more »
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National Post on Bhutan’s experiment with National Happiness
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From the National Post: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/03/world-happiness-report-canada/ For a different take on collateral damage from Bhutan’s initiative, here’s a dissenting view from The Himalayan, a Nepalese newspaper: http://thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Bhutanese+without+Bhutan&NewsID=326215
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Canada Secretly Saw Tibet as “Qualified for Recognition as an Independent State” in ’50s
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Declassified documents from 1950 through the 1960s show that Canada considered Tibet to be “qualified for recognition as an independent state.” These documents also show how the Canadian government’s concern over the outcome of United Nations votes led Canada to publicly avoid the question of Tibet’s political status in favor of human rights. But while... Read more »
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On Fire for Tibet (CBC Day Six)
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CBC’s “Day Six” radio newsmagazine will be covering Tibetan self-immolations on its March 31, 2012 show tomorrow. For those who don’t know, there have been a great number of Tibetan self-immolations in Tibet and in Tibetan areas of China in the past year, in protest against the Chinese occupation. For this segment, they have interviewed... Read more »
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TLKY Conference on Buddhism and the Political Process, UTSC, 4.13-15.12
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April 13-15 2012: TLKY Conference on Buddhism and the Political Process, Miller Lash House, UTSC. Details TBA For more information, see updates at: http://buddhiststudies.chass.utoronto.ca/
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