Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
DHARMSALA, India - For Buddhists, the first noble truth is that all life is suffering. That apparently applies to beauty pageants, too.
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
DHARMSALA, India -- For Buddhists, the first noble truth is that all life is suffering -- and that apparently applies to beauty pageants, too.The Miss Tibet pageants, seen by many as a showcase of feminine beauty, have been fraught with controversy
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
DHARMSALA, India -- For Buddhists, the first noble truth is that all life is suffering -- and that apparently applies to beauty pageants, too.
Memories Of Movement (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The week-long meeting of Tibetan exiles in Dharmsala, India, has inevitably drawn comparisons with the activities of Burma’s own exiled opposition community. Tibet and Burma each have a government in exile. But some Burmese exiles and Burma scholars claim that while the Tibetan opposition in exile, led by the Dalai Lama, shows cohesion, the same cannot [...]
The Prairie Pooch Burrow (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
n these days of tense relations between Beijing and the Tibetan government-in-exile, even the Miss Tibet pageant has become politicized, the Washington Post reports: And the winner was Sonam Choedon, a shy 18-year-old with shiny waist-length black hair and high cheekbones. At 16, she fled her homeland on the Tibetan plateau to Dharmsala, headquarters of the Tibetan Government in Exile. http://...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... like an exercise in pointlessness. Or perhaps hopelessness. But not in the Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama fled after leaving Tibet in 1959 and where he has his government in exile. Around here, there never seems to be a shortage of hope."I'm always optimistic," said Tenzin Choeying, the head of Students for a Free Tibet. "You have to be optimistic here."But whether they...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... an exercise in pointlessness. Or perhaps hopelessness.
But not in the Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama fled after leaving Tibet in 1959 and where he has his government in exile. Around here, there never seems to be a shortage of hope.
"I'm always optimistic," said Tenzin Choeying, the head of Students for a Free Tibet. "You have to be optimistic here."
But...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... seem like an exercise in pointlessness. Or perhaps hopelessness.But not in the Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama fled after leaving Tibet in 1959 and where he has his government in exile. Around here, there never seems to be a shortage of hope."I'm always optimistic," said Tenzin Choeying, the head of Students for a Free Tibet. "You have to be optimistic here."But whether...
