Tag: Tibet
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“Tradition Does Not Confine Us – It Guides Us”
In a recent post I acknowledged my mixed feelings about traditional cultures. Subsequently, I came across this column by Tiffani Gyatso in Buddhistdoor Global. She writes beautifully about the tension between tradition and modernity and concludes: Tradition sustains; contemporaneity provokes. And perhaps the future of art—of those expressions that truly touch the human spirit—lies precisely…
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New Chinese President Looking to Religion to Fill Moral Void
Corruption has become so bad in China, the new president is now looking to religion to potentially fill the moral void. The predictions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the new Chinese President, Xi Jinping, might come forward with humane reforms in dealing with Tibet appear to be coming true. The Central Tibetan Administration reported…
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