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		<title>Is the Dalai Lama becoming less relevant worldwide?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am beginning to enjoy reading the “news” that  various organs of the Chinese official media are putting out these days on  issues relating to Tibet.  In  the past, as much as I disagreed with the Chinese propaganda, I had  some sort of respect for them. The reports were no doubt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/18/is-the-dalai-lama-becoming-less-relevant-worldwide/</link>
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		<title>“As if for a hidden treasure”: the 70th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s enthronement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days after images of the White House meeting of the Dalai Lama and President Obama flashed across the world, a special anniversary was celebrated in London with a glimpse of where it all began for the exiled Tibetan leader known simply as ‘Kundun’, or ‘Presence’.
Seventy years prior to the White House meeting, on a cold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/17/%e2%80%9cas-if-for-a-hidden-treasure%e2%80%9d-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-dalai-lama%e2%80%99s-enthronement/</link>
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		<title>The Free Tibet World Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 10, 2010, the 51st Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day, a sole Tibetan, Lhakpa Tsering started on his eight-month Free Tibet World Tour on a motor bike across 22 nations.  He started off his tour from his current hometown of New York City, at the headquarters of the United Nations, and will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/16/the-free-tibet-world-tour/</link>
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		<title>Lhasa&#8217;s first underpass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio Free Asia reported today that an underpass being built beneath a main road in central Lhasa has flooded. Excavations for the underpass have apparently disrupted the water table in the vicinity which has led to several nearby trees dying and falling, according to RFA’s sources, and raised fears that the foundations of the Potala [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/12/lhasas-first-underpass/</link>
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		<title>China&#8217;s meddling in our internal affairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amidst all the bluster and assertiveness coming from the Chinese Foreign Ministry these days, we sometime forget to appreciate their sense of humor. At least the unintentional kind.
It has become custom for some state and local officials to declare March 10 as “Tibet Day” to commemorate this important anniversary. This year was no exception, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/12/chinas-meddling-in-our-internal-affairs/</link>
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		<title>Chinese academic cites CCP control of monks as source of unrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article from Tuesday’s South China Morning Post (below) is worth noting. As my colleague Ben observes, it is highly unusual for someone on the faculty a major government think tank, at a major conference in Beijing, to challenge a key tenet of the strategy to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism. And it appears to undercut the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/11/chinese-academic-cites-ccp-control-of-monks-as-source-of-unrest/</link>
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		<title>Political monks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by coincidental statements made last week, from Washington and Beijing, about the question of whether senior Tibetan monks do have, or should have, political roles.
In these two cases, the governments of the United  States and China are applying contradictory positions on this topic. Perhaps a common and consistent approach could nurture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/08/political-monks/</link>
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		<title>Comments by Lodi Gyari at a Reception Hosted by ICT for Tibetan Americans and Tibet Supporters Participating in Tibet Lobby Day 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, March 1 as part of the 2010 Tibet Lobby Day activities, ICT and the Capital Area Tibetan Association hosted a reception for Lobby Day participants and friends of ICT.  Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Executive Chairman of ICT&#8217;s Board of Directors, made remarks to the gathering, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/05/comments-by-lodi-gyari-at-a-reception-hosted-by-ict-for-tibetan-americans-and-tibet-supporters-participating-in-tibet-lobby-day-2010/</link>
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		<title>China’s Annual Tibetan Ritual: Are these enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year this time, when the annual sessions of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) are held, we can see some activities in Beijing relating to Tibet.
This time one such event is the “approval” of the membership of the boy (now man), Gyaltsen Norbu la, that the Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/04/china%e2%80%99s-annual-tibetan-ritual-are-these-enough/</link>
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		<title>The Spotlight on Obama and the Dalai Lama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in town today, I pose a question:
Is tomorrow’s meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama getting greater attention than it would have had it been held last October?
I think, indisputably, YES, even without the benefit of a time machine to test the hypothesis.
Jump back to last summer/fall. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/02/17/the-spotlight-on-obama-and-the-dalai-lama/</link>
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