WTN for October 2008

• 1st Europe Tibetan Congress in Basel, Switzerland from 11-12 October 2008 - Tibet
• Dalai Lama plans Montreal visit - The Concordian
• Dalai Lama will attend 2009 World Winter Games - Idaho Statesman
• Dalai Lama to attend Special Olympics - Idaho Mountain Express
• Dalai Lama Begins Teaching For Taiwanese Buddhists - Phayul
• Dalai Lama delivers religious discourse in Dharamsala - ANI
• DIIR submits report on ‘torture against Tibetan people’ to the UN - TibetNet
• Tibet shows money can’t buy you love - Tribune, UK

• Spiritual Leader or Political Activist? - gair rhydd
• Six months after riots, tension high as armed police clamp down in Lhasa - The Guardian
• Banned Writer Sheds Light on Tibet - Radio Free Asia
• The Distorted Image of Tibet (Part IV) - Epoch Times
• Two deaths from rare, deadly plague in Tibet - AFP
• Tale of two Tibets - The Guardian
• Canada's Political Parties Support MWA - Phayul

• I am Tibetan - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Screen the film: Blood over Nangpa Pass - SFT
• First International Buddhist Film Festival in Mexico - Office of Tibet, New York
• Averting Asian water wars - Japan Times
• The Dharma of Politics: Adventures in Interdependence - Mandala Magazine
• Patriotism? You're Killing Me - Agam's Gecko Blog
• Woeser: New poems published in English by Tibet's 'voice' - ICT
• Plague claims two lives in Tibet - Independent Online
• 'Tibet issue' to be resolved through non-violent Gandhian principles: Rinpoche - Newpost Online
• Five Ramoche monks missing since April raid - Secret Tibet Blog
• Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China - New York Times
• Six months after riots, tension high as armed police clamp down in Lhasa - Guardian

• Macca receives spiritual book from Dalai Lama ahead of Israel gig - ANI
• Book on Peaceful Protests in Tibet's Amdo Province Unveiled - Tibet Custom
• Two For Joy - Miss Tibet on October 12 - Phayul
• India and the temples of doom - Asia Times
• Dalai Lama to rock GM Place in 2009 - Vancouver Sun
• Tibetans Jailed For Blasts - RFA
• Bring People's Opinion to the Special Meeting: TPIE - Phayul
• PRESS RELEASE: 5th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet - Tibet Information Office Australia
• Dalai Lama's envoys, China to hold talks this month - Sindh Today
• Tibetan Unicode Information on dharmadictionary - Jigtenmig
• Methane fuel increasingly used in Tibet - Xinhua
• Religious Freedom In China - Voice of America
• Nobel Peace Prize Winners Inspire Young Activists Through PeaceJam - Voice of America
• Tibet: Non-violence: the key to resolve "Tibet issue" - UNPO
• Tibet Accesory at British Designer's Show - Phayul
• Nobel predictions center on human rights - AP
• Dalai Lama to undergo medical check-up - Reuters
• Siddartha, the Buddha - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Election '08 and the Challenge of China - New USCI Documentary - USC U.S.-China Institute
• Documentary explores the fabrics of spirituality - Wisconsin State Journal
• Archives plundered to render long-lost Tibet - Australian
• Chinese cities wake up to a new superfood: yak milk - The Observer
• Tibetan Diaspora - The Statesman
• Independent Chinese TV Launches Freedom Satellite Plan to Against China's Censorship - Epoch Times
• Tibetan government-in-exile PM to visit Switzerland - Sindh Today

• Kilgour: Join International Campaign to End China's Human Organ Commerce - David Kilgour
• The China-Tibet Conflict: Need for Historic Decisions - Tsering Passang
• Tibetan nun speaks at NIC on power of ads - Sentinel OnLine
• Chinese Dissident Likely to Win Nobel Peace Prize - Phayul
• Health Kalon to Visit Tibetan Settlements in Nepal - TibetNet
• Tibet Festival Observed in Geneva - Tibet Custom
• Months after riots, Tibet tourism still suffering - AP
• 30 die after 2 strong earthquakes hit Tibet - AP
• Dalai Lama to undergo medical checkup - AP

• Poem: Light Our Fire - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Five-Night Tibet Journey Takes Crystal Guests to Inimitable Heights - PRNewswire
• Bruce Cockburn movie about Nepal screens at Planet in Focus film fest - CP
• The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir Tibetan Chants for World Peace - Music Box
• 'Nepal is in Tibet': The saga of gaffes continues - Times of India
• Asylum case keeps monk in custody - Star Bulletin
• Tibetan earthquakes raze houses in Lhasa - The Telegraph
• Doctors clear Dalai Lama to resume foreign travel - AP
• Message of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Those Affected by Tibet Earthquake - dalailama.com
• Tibetan Leaders Contemplate 'Great Change' Following March Protests - VOA
• Kasurs and former MPs have to Confirm Attendance at Special Meeting - Tibet Custom
• How the Media Handles Tibet - US-Tibet Committee

• Chinese repression in Tibet is like 'Cultural Revolution' days, says Dalai Lama's envoy - Tibet
• Glacial dams helped Tibet keep its cutting edge - AFP
• China: Ministry officials aid Tibet quake relief - China Daily
• Official notice evidence of discrimination against Tibetans after protests - ICT
• Ten dead and more injured in central Tibet earthquake - ICT
• Atlas Printed in Hong Kong for Tibet Objections - Phayul
• DIIR Kalon to Address Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of Australian Parliament - TibetNet
• Special Envoy Fears Possible Violence if Talks Fail - Phayul

• Tsamba, Yak Meat And Other Tibetan Food - Tibetanconnections.com
• China denounces Nobel contender - Financial Times
• Beijing: Hu Jia is a "criminal," and does not deserve the Nobel Prize - Asia News
• A Tibetan AIDS activist disappears in Tibet - TCHRD
• Police Beat Up Chinese Peasants for Demanding Compensation - Phayul
• Tibet activists set ablaze "China's Ravan" - Phayul
• Dalai Lama hospitalised with abdominal pains: doctor - AFP
• Although Chinese intelligentsias' outlook on Tibet is positive, the current repression of Tibetans is alarming, says His Holiness' envoy - Office of Tibet, London
• Tibetan Envoy Calls for Talks - Harvard Crimson
• Tibetan Envoys Reiterate Calls for Sincere Talks - Phayul
• The China-Tibet Conflict: Need for Historic Decisions - Phayul
• DIIR Kalon to Address Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee at Australian Parliament - Office of Tibet, Australia

• 'Himalaya -- Changing Landscapes' photo exhibition - Fundación BBVA
• Meet New York's 'Deli Lama:' Surya Das - Huliq News
• Romance, Revelations and Revolutions - Selected Poems by Woeser
• Dangerous Shift in Sino-US Relations: China Severs Diplomatic, Military Ties With US Over Taiwan Missile Deal - Press Trust of India
• D.C. Uighurs wait to take in Gitmo detainees - Washington Post
• Kelsang Gyaltsen urges the British government to resolve Tibet - Punjab Newsline
• Germany and China resume dialogue with Berlin talks - DPA
• Tibet Supporters Protest in Brussels Against Chinese TV Censorship - Phayul
• "Tibet at a Crossroads" - Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari
• Aide says Dalai Lama's surgery ends successfully - AP
• Dispatch from Lhasa - Daily Camera
• Peling abode restored, empowered - Kuensel Online
• Former Indian Deputy PM Launches Book on Tibet - Phayul
• Opinion: Nepal's Tibet Problem - Wall Street Journal Asia
• Braving China anger, Dalai Lama's envoy on Nepal mission - Thaindian
• China to build homes for 500,000 Tibetan herders - Asia-Pacific News
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Extends Message to 1st Europe Tibetan Congress - TibetNet
• Dalai Lama stable, to be discharged soon - Indo-Asian News Service

• Travel diaries -- A lifetime pilgrimage to Spiti - Anish Joel
• TMFF: Dreaming of Tibet - Alex Crevar
• Taos Mountain Film Festival: The Spine - Alex Crevar
• Pomona Arts Colony features old Tibet - Daily Bulletin
• Taste of Tibet to offer food, tea - Indiana Daily Student
• Books: The certitude of conquerors - The Hindu
• Books: Forgotten Authors: No. 9: T Lobsang Rampa - The Independent
• Miss Tibet 2008 beauty pageant attracts only two contestants - Newspost Online
• China: all bets are off - Sunday Times
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Extends Message to 1st Europe Tibetan Congress - TibetNet
• Recovering Dalai Lama to leave India hospital soon: aide - AFP
• Oprah Talks to Pema Chodron - Oprah Magazine
• Fight for China TV Signal Goes to Brussels - Epoch Times
• Focus on Bhutan - The Reformer
• Sonam Choedon from Tibet crowned Miss Tibet 2008 - Tibet Post International
• Dege: The Cultural Heart of Kham - Tibetanconnections.com
• "How did my mother participate in the revolution?" by Woeser - highpeakspureearth.com
• Tibet documentary wins best Human Rights film award - Phayul
• Importance of Silk Route - Kashmir Watch
• Dalai Lama's discharge from hospital delayed: doctor - AFP
• A Letter from a Tibetan Student in Tibet - Phayul
• TA's Response to Chinese Government Allegations: Part Five - TibetNet
• 1st Europe Tibetan Congress Calls for an Intensified Action Plan on Tibet - Steering Committee of 1st Europe Tibetan Congress

• CDT Interview Series: Chinese Journalists Talk About the Olympics, Tibet, and Cross-Cultural Understanding (4) - China Digital Times
• The Great Lotus Stupa - American Chronicle
• Eastern Brains - BUniverse
• Dalai Lama to guide mummifying Mundgod Monk - Daily News & Analysis
• Chinese experts discuss development in Tibet with Austrian councilor - chinaview.cn
• Nepal's Upper Dolpo region untouched, untamed - Vancouver Courier
• Announcement "The Special Meeting" -- A Turning Point For Tibet? - Tibet
• Festival to aid Tibetan Appeal - Perthshire Advertiser
• Tibet doc looks for UK home - c21media.net
• An Unlawful Detention -- The Uighurs Come to Washington - CounterPunch
• China will be a democracy by 2020, says senior party figure - The Telegraph
• China plans dams across Tibet - The Telegraph
• China Court Gives Life Sentence to Tibetan Monks: Update - Phayul
• The Rangzen Road Ahead - Phayul
• DIIR Kalon Meets with Greens Chief, Senators - ATC
• Art Politics -- A Cultural Diplomacy Fund - Market Watch
• Their Own Worst Enemy - The Atlantic
• Kashag Outlines Policies on Women Empowerment - TibetNet
• Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal offer Grant Special Prayers for Speedy Recovery of His Holiness - Wangdu Tsering
• Dalai Lama to leave Indian hospital, resume travel - AP
• No Need to Worry About His Holiness: Secretary - Phayul

• Olympic Legacy: Free Reporting? - Wall Street Journal
• Zhang Boshu: The Way to Resolve the Tibet Issue - China Digital Times
• The Cairo Declaration, 65 years on - Taipei Times
• The Holy Olympic Torch, Atheism and Tibet - China Digital Times
• Reform has taken Tibetology to new level - China Daily
• China says to boost incomes in restive Tibet areas - Reuters
• Getting Gandhi to the Chinese - Idaho Montain Express
• Eight monks imprisoned for bomb blast in Tibet: judge - AFP
• Dalai Lama discharged from hospital - AFP

• Poem: Love - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Secular Spirituality - PRAHLAD SINGH SHEKHAWAT
• Richard Gere Interview - This is Kent
• Film: Peter Weir Finds 'The Way Back' To Soviet Gulag - MTC Movie Blog
• China rebuked over communication - BBC
• Beijing, internet users photographed and profiled - AsiaNews
• China media freedoms in limbo as Olympic rules end - Reuters
• How free are reporters in China? - BBC
• What rights will the foreign press have? - Reporter without Borders
• Tibet cuts ticket prices to boost tourism after riots: state media - AFP
• Brand China's Trial - CFR
• China: Playing by 'the Rules' - Spiegel
• Indian youths hold 'Free Tibet' bike rally - Phayul
• Dalai-Lama, Kwasniewski for Anyiam-Osigwe - This Day
• Europe Tibetan Congress - a bridge to nowhere? - Phayul
• The Transmission of the Tantra and Practices of Tarayogini - Jonangpa.com
• "Tibetan Book of The Dead" At La Mama to Benefit Shantigar Rebuilding - News Blaze
• From the Himalayas to the Boston suburbs - Arlington Advocate
• Kathmandu, center of U.S. espionage in South Asia - Online Journal
• Tibet builds first Buddhism academy - Xinhua
• One Year On... A Letter from Lhasa - High Peaks
• Boerewors and chopsticks: interviews with the Chinese (Janet) - Thought Leader
• China eases restrictions for foreign journalists - AP
• Local TSC Organizes Inter-School Painting, Essay & Debate Contest - Phayul
• Tibetan filmmaker temporarily released from prison - Phayul
• CPJ condemns China's detention of Tibetan filmmakers - Committee to Protect Journalists
• Announcement: "Tibet Of Our Minds: A Journey's End?" presentation - Friends of Tibet
• Announcement: Register for SFT Canada's East Coast Conference! - SFT Canada
• Book Review: Unlearnt Chinese lessons - Chandigarh Tribune
• Uighurs: Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules - New York Times
• Taiwan President wishes to achieve cross-strait agreement in his term - Taiwan News
• China relaxes decades-old restrictions on media - Sunday Times
• No Indo-Tibet barter trade this season - Economic Times
• China to train cadre of Tibetan monks to counter Dalai - Times of India
• Jailed Tibetan monk tortured - Straits Times
• China releases Tibetan film-making monk -- report - Reuters

• Students for free Tibet host celebration - University Chronicle
• Microsoft gets bleeping patent - CNet
• World's second highest airport to open this month - Reuters
• Chinese Tibetologists end visit to Norway - chinaview.cn
• Media -- Loss for hardliners - The Australian
• Jamia University Media Students visited Dharamsala - Phayul
• Tibetan Government Workers in Clash - Radio Free Asia
• Dalai Lama receives overwhelming welcome from well-wishers - Phayul

• Announcing A Unique Tibetan Photo Project - tibetanphotoproject.com
• Aboard the Highest Train in the World: China's Railroad to Tibet - Huffington Post
• Mongolians are China's forgotten minority--dissident - Guardian
• China dissidents eye uncertain post-Olympics landscape - AFP
• China releases list of wanted terror group leaders - AP
• In China, reporters without orders - Wu Zhong
• Duchess made Dalai Lama pilgrimage - Press Association
• Banner depicts Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton - Courier Journal
• Dalai Lama to attend TCV's founding anniversary celebration - Phayul
• Australian Senate Calls for Successful Dialogue on Tibet - TibetNet

• Dzongkha: How well are you? - NewsBlaze
• China: Extend New Media Rules to Chinese Reporters - Human Rights Watch
• Prachanda's multiparty pickle - Asia Times
• India's interventionist policies in its neighbourhood - Asian Tribune
• Fearless Film-maker Tortured, Released; Chinese Security Forces Brawl with Tibetan Civil Servants - Agam's Gecko Blog
• Golden Jubilee Celebration of Namgyal Institute of Tibetology - The Organiser
• Tusk in China to discuss economic cooperation - Polish Radio
• Speaker to talk about experiences with Tibet exiles - Citizen of Laconia
• Rare disease haunts poor Tibet plateau villagers - Reuters
• Taiwanese protesters attack Chinese envoy - AFP
• Kalon Tripa ­ 2011 - Website Being Launched - Thubten Samdup

• Deluxe edition of 'Songs for Tibet' to be released soon - Phayul
• Picture exhibition "Tibet of China" opens in Mexico - Chinaview
• First wargames with China in India - Times of India
• Third Qinghai-Sichuan highway opened to traffic - People's Daily
• China: Hu Jia Sakharov Prize Spotlights China's Rights Crisis - HRW
• Asia, world leader in religious freedom violations - AsiaNews
• Exhibit revisits the Dalai Lama's historic visit - Brown and White
• European leaders must raise Tibet at ASEM - ICT
• North American Seat of Dalai Lama's Monastery Opens in Atlanta - Epoch Times
• Pro-Tibet activists urge Merkel to raise human rights issues - DPA
• BREAKING NEWS: Chinese police kill 8 more Tibetans - Pakistan News
• Tibet riots orchestrated? - Pakistan News

• Poem: Cause for Celebration - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Film review: 'What Remains of Us': A visit to Tibet, the 'biggest prison in the world' - Chicago Tribune
• Relations With Germany Strengthened, China Says - Deutsche Welle
• Poor weavers nurture free Tibet dream - The Telegraph (India)
• Questions for the Dalai Lama -- Quantum Consciousness - Coast Reporter
• China furious at EU human rights award to 'criminal' dissident Hu Jia - The Telegraph (UK)
• Jailed Chinese dissident and Tibet supporter wins top European human rights award on eve of Asia-Europe summit - ICT
• Remember the China lesson - Japan Times
• Dalai Lama postpones his visit to Arunachal Pradesh - MeriNews (India)
• Dalai Lama ready to make one week trip to Japan - Punjab Newsline
• Large Human Rights Delegation Heads For China - Tibet Custom
• Switzerland Hopes for Concrete Results from Discussions on Tibet - TibetNet
• Dalai Lama to make public appearance Saturday - Thaindian
• Dalai Lama's envoys to leave for China by month end - Times of India
• Freedoms don't extend to locals - Sydney Morning Herald
• Book Review: Graveyard of Indian Idealism -- Tibet. The Lost Frontier by Claude Arpi - Asia Times
• Book review - A Year in Tibet, Sun Shuyun - The Independent Weekly
• Tibetan Filmmakers Participate in Film Festivals in Italy - Phayul
• Igniting Nationalist Fires - US-China Today
• Obituary: Ngodup Tsering - TibetNet
• "Flowing robes, bald, grace, striking" - The Courier
• China Refuses to Admit Tibet Crackdown to UN Treaty Body - Phayul
• Exhibit Revisits His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Historic Visit - TibetNet
• Dalai Lama on the verge of retirement - ANI
• Polling Tibet's Future - Tibet Special Meeting
• Thoughts on the Future of Tibet - Wangpo Tethong
• Dalai Lama says he has given up on China talks - AP

• Louise Blouin MacBain's Tibetan stance will ruffle feathers of the Prince of Wales - The Telegraph
• Opinion: A contrasting perspective: An alternative account of the Tibetan monk's visit - gonzagabulletin.com
• Is China Changing? - The Statesman
• Role of regional players in Afghan imbroglio - Asian Tribune
• Tibet's Secret Weapon: An Opinion - Huffington Post
• The Issue of Autonomy for Tibet - Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa
• The Question of Autonomy for Tibet - Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa
• The End of the Line for the Dalai Lama? - Washington Post
• Dalai Lama hints at retirement - Press Trust of India
• Dalai Lama losing hope for Tibet autonomy - aide - Reuters

• Talent Pool for Tibet - Beijing Review
• Tibetologists exchange views with students in Poland - Xinhua
• St. Gratien looks at Tibet - Phayul
• Tibetan Translators Plan New Guild - Radio Free Asia
• The lost world of Bhanodi Gompa: Discovered and now fading away - HimVani
• Canada-China relations are in need of an urgent overhaul - Globe & Mail
• Switzerland Hopes for Concrete Results from Discussions on Tibet - Tibet Office Australia
• Dalai Lama signals strategy shift with China - AFP
• A Cry for Help from Tibet - Phayul
• Dalai Lama Says He Has Lost Hope in China Talks - VOA News
• The Big Question: Is the dream of independence for Tibet now a lost cause? - The Independent
• Is the Dalai Lama About to Give Up On China? - TIME
• China and Tibet - New York Times
• Dalai Lama says he is loosing faith on talks with China - Phayul

• Dalai Lama's Surrender? - Newsweek
• 'His Holiness only Losing Faith in Chinese Government, Not Chinese People and Not Giving up the Tibetan Cause' - TibetNet
• Dalai Lama clears the way for tough talk on Tibet - DNA India
• Important statement by Dalai Lama 'speaking truth to power' - ICT
• Chinese oppression 'uniting Tibetans' - The National (UAE)
• Thoughts on the future of Tibet - Summary - Wangpo Tethong
• The Middle-Way Approach: A Framework for Resolving the Issue of Tibet - TibetNet
• Tibetan government-in-exile calls a special session - IANS

• Advisory - China and India: Perils, Promises and Prospects - IDRC
• Dalai Lama hungry power! - iReport.com
• EDITORIAL: Feeling the Dalai Lama's pain - Taipei Times
• Dalai Lama's Conference May Signal an End to Tibet's Era of Protest - findingdulcinea.com
• Parliamentary delegation to Tibet - Den norske Tibet Komité
• UN Withdraws Tibetan Report from Website - Phayul
• WAN urges China to release jailed journalists, allow free reporting from Tibet - Phayul
• GuChuSum visit to Poland, Meeting with Foreign Affairs Ministry of Poland - Polish Parliamentary Group for Tibet
• His Holiness' Remarks on Tibet Misquoted: Office - Phayul
• China asks Dalai to respond 'positively' during talks - Press Trust of India
• China says still looking to talks with Tibet envoys - Reuters
• China reacts to Dalai Lama's declaration over Tibet - Phayul
• Report: China to hold talks with Dalai Lama envoys - AP

• Tibetan Culture Week Culminates by Dismantling the Sand Mandala - praha.eu
• A poem: A Bright Future for Tibet - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Prague gets taste of Tibetan culture - Prague Post
• Two poems about the Panchen Lama by Woeser - Ragged Banner Press
• Book Review: Women in Tibet in their own words, sans politics - Tibetan Review
• Dalai Lama's Surrender? The Next Tibetan Uprising? - Washington Post
• Tibetans 'could increase demands' - BBC
• Dalai Lama's Envoys Travel to Beijing for Talks With Chinese Officials - VOA
• China-Tibet dialogue, Dalai Lama skeptical - AsiaNews
• Dalai Lama's Envoys to Arrive in Beijing Thursday - AP
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Envoys leave for China for 8th Round of Talks - Central Tibetan Administration