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"Unless freedom comes to Tibet, then Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet is impossible."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In a 1985 Supreme Court of Canada case, Chief Justice Brian Dickson wrote that religious freedom in Canada is:

"the right to entertain such religious beliefs as a person chooses, the right to declare religious beliefs openly and without fear of hindrance or reprisal, and the right to manifest religious belief by worship and practice or by teaching and dissemination."

It's why three hundred thousand Buddhists worship freely in Canada.

And it's why the Canada Tibet Committee is working to bring religious freedom to Tibet and China. We need your help.

"To be interested in religion you have to be involved in politics."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

This Dharma Resource Centre includes a video from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, news articles on the political role of Buddhists, relevant government reports on religious freedom in Tibet and, most importantly, steps you can take so that together we can see the day when Tibetans worship as freely as you do.

So please, get involved. Sign-up to receive the CTC newsletter, join or donate, volunteer to help organize an event or participate at one.

Choose what you feel comfortable with doing, but above all choose. Six million Tibetans are counting on you.

"Today, the Chinese authorities are conducting various political campaigns, including a campaign of patriotic re-education, in many monasteries in Tibet. They are putting the monks and nuns in prison-like conditions, depriving them the opportunity to study and practice in peace. These conditions make the monasteries function more like museums and are intended to deliberately annihilate Buddhism."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 10 March 2010

An interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

• Video
• To listen to the full interview with His Holiness, click here

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Articles

• Advice to Buddhists in the West
• Be Buddhists of 21st Century

Reports

• U.S. State Department 2009 International Religious Freedom Report http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127268.htm
• ICT report - When the sky fell to the earth http://www.savetibet.org/documents/reports/when-sky-fell-earth-the-new-crackdown-buddhism-tibet
• U.S. State Department's "Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2009" http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/eap/135989.htm#tibet