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Comment on My Talk in Minnesota on Understanding the Reality in Tibet by Bhuchung Tsering

Bhuchung Tsering — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:37:34 +0000

རང་བཙན་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་མ་རེད་གུས་པས་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་མ་བྱུང་། མང་ཚོགས་ནས་རང་ཐག་རང་གཅོད་གནད་དོན་ཐོག་ནས་རང་བཙན་སྐོར་ལ་བཀའ་མོལ་གནང་གི་ཡོད་མེད་སྐོར་རེད། ང་ཚོས་གནས་ཚུལ་ལ་གཏིང་ཟབ་པ་གཟིགས་གནང་དགོས་འདུག

Comment on Bhutan’s The Raven: Birth of a Pathfinder by Bhuchung Tsering

Bhuchung Tsering — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:34:15 +0000

You have my word Sonam la that I will share my thoughts on the progress of the magazine. I have been enjoying going through the different issues. A friend who visited Bhutan last month also saw an issue of the magazine and brought the “news” back to us.:-)

Comment on Bhutan’s The Raven: Birth of a Pathfinder by Sonam

Sonam — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:20:23 +0000

Thanks Bhuchung la, I meant in October of 2013, I would love to hear from you again as to how we have done!
Thuje che!

Comment on My Talk in Minnesota on Understanding the Reality in Tibet by tenzin tsomo

tenzin tsomo — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:52:46 +0000

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་གཅིག་པུ་མ་གཏོགས་རང་བཙན་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་མ་རེད་ཅེས་སུ་བཤད་འདུག་ལགས། དེང་གིི་དམངས་ཚོགས་ནི་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་བསམ་པ་ནང་བཞིན་གྱི་བླུན་རྨོངས་མིན་པས། ད་དབུ་སྐོར་གཏོང་མཚམས་བཞག་གནང་དང་ཡག་གི་རེད།།

Comment on Tibetans in the Chinese Communist Party Leadership by Bhuchung Tsering

Bhuchung Tsering — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:17:07 +0000

Thank you for your correction and insight. I will make the changes accordingly.

Comment on Tibetans in the Chinese Communist Party Leadership by DUO Hua

DUO Hua — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:53:24 +0000

Glancing again at your historical list of senior Tibetans in the Chinese Communist Party compiled quite some time ago, I noticed an unfortunate mix-up. At the 17th Party Congress, a Tibetan from the Tibet Autonomous Region named Dorji became an Alternate member of the Central Committee. You have identified this Dorji incorrectly with a photo and the name “Doje Cezhug,” Doje Cezhug (perhaps more pronounceable as Dorji Tsedup) is from Ngari where he built his career in the security services and eventually was promoted to Lhasa as its Mayor. A month or so ago, he was replaced as Mayor by a Tibetan with the sinicized name Zhang Yanqing. Zhang came to the TAR 18 years ago from Pari County in Gansu Province as a Public Security Bureau official. While he is now Mayor of Lhasa, he also heads the city’s Political & Legal Committee. In the meantime Dorji Tsedup moved ‘up’ or ‘sideways’ as one of the three new Vice Chairmen (listed 13th out of 14) in the new TAR Government. Dorji Tsedup has never come even close to a Central Committee appointment.

So who is the mysterious Central Committee Alternate member named Dorji? He indeed is a Lhoka Tibetan from Gyatsa who joined the Communist Party rather late in his life, in his mid 40s, but made a name for himself in Lhasa and Beijing as an academic and professional engineer. He even spent a year in Italy lecturing and researching at the University of Pisa. Dorji is a thermal-energy and mining engineer honored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences with its highest accolade. As Party Secretary and head of the TAR’s Geological & Mineral Exploration & Development Bureau as well as its National Lands & Resources Bureau, Dorji has been associated with resource extraction activities in the TAR. Chen Kuiyuan, Guo Jinlong and Zhang Qingli all found favor with him, and I suspect that Zhang thought he might be an appropriate national symbol for the new Tibet. Zhang also must have had greater political expectations for Dorji otherwise the appointment of a distinguished but mere bureau chief to the Central Committee would be impossible. For whatever reasons (possibly the 2008 civil disturbances in Lhasa and elsewhere), nothing of the sort ever happened and his Central Committee Alternate appointment just embarrassingly fizzled out. Even though the present TAR Party Standing Committee desperately needs at least two new Tibetan members, Dorji at 61 is probably too old to make it. He recently was promoted to be a Vice Director of the new Tibet People’s Congress (listed 7th out of 13) and most likely will retire there.

I hope this clears up the Dorji question.

Duo Hua

Comment on VOA and China’s Latest Narrative on Tibet by VOA and China’s Latest Narrative on Tibet « Tibetan Blog Station

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Comment on Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on Buddhism in the Social Media Age by Lhaksam

Lhaksam — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:31:21 +0000

Very good information to Buddhist Vajrayana practitioners.

Comment on Landmark Indian Court Ruling on Citizenship for Tibetans by tenzin

tenzin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:18:24 +0000

well without knowing the thing properly we shouldn’t say.. Indian govt knows that Tibetans doesn’t have pass port but they intentially don’t provide for our betterment and coz of central Tibetan administration .. first we should know thing properly . and yeah so many people are there who don’t really appreciate the case of namgyal dolker..if u want to know exactly ask some CTA officer at dhasa . try to know why exactly we are not granted for pass port…then say ..

Comment on China wanting to understand Tibetan self-immolation? by Namkhadrongpa Drongpa

Namkhadrongpa Drongpa — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:06:12 +0000

It is interesting if you dig deeper into this conversation, certain facts have come out Inspite of CCTV towing the official line.
A). China has no control over Tibetans after more than seven decades of brutal occupation and forced brainwashing.
B) Dalai Lama is still the authority in Tibet.
C) Therefore, all China can do is to control Tibet with martial law and condemn Dalai Lama only.

Is China going to follow the same failed policy or a new leader with some sense would go for the root and address the issue?