WTN for October 2010

• Travel: In Tibet, at Heaven's Gate, the Butler Awaits - New York Times
• Excerpt 3: Struggles of the Dalai Lama - Ottawa Citizen
• Book Review: In a spy's footsteps - Ottawa Citizen
• China warns Norway's Nobel Institute not to award peace prize to democracy activist Liu Xioabo - Telegraph
• Tibetan exiles disillusioned by life in Indian 'paradise' - McClatchy-Tribune News
• Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage - Huffington Post
• Gu Chu Sum GBM concludes, new executive members elected - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Open Happy Thoughts World Peace Festival - CTA
• "Mining Tycoon Says: Tibetans Hope to Get Rich from Mining" By Woeser - High Peaks Pure Earth
• India-China relations strained - wsws.org
• Nyoma to be upgraded as major air base close to China border - Deccan Herald
• Is China Afraid of Its Own People? - Foreign Policy
• Staten Island Tibetan museum hosts annual festival - silife.com
• Touch of Tibet - The Hindu
• Venerable Lama Losang Samten at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg - examiner.com
• Media Release - Tibet Film Festival 2010 - filmingfortibet.org
• Tibetan Writer attends Tokyo International PEN Congress - Tibet House Japan
• Dr. Andrew M. Fischer Discusses Development Issues in China and Tibet - asiapacificmemo.ca
• Letter: Human Rights Session -- Short update from Geneva - Chungdak Koren
• 5,900 register from N America for upcoming Tibetan elections - Tibetan Review
• Chinese diplomat in UK agrees to "follow up" on issue of jailed Tibetan film-maker - Phayul

• China's Sea Power, Among Other Powers - Canada Free Press
• Favorite for Nobel Peace Prize is a jailed Chinese dissident who called for political reform - CP
• Empowerment in exile - Common Grounds
• Villagers Block Work on Dam - RFA
• Dalai row over, Hu aide plans India visit again - Hindustan Times
• Dharamsala hotels lure CWG tourists with special packages - SIFY
• Programs help to prep public for Dalai Lama's visit - Oxford Press
• Officials held, monastery besieged for seeking head lama's visit - Tibetan Review
• The concept of compassion - Indiana Student Daily
• Opinion: H.H. Dalai Lama is the Anitidote - Chewang Ngokhang
• Opinion: The justifying context of higher emptiness - rangzen.net
• Election 2011: Aspirant Tibetan MPs debate at youth group event - Phayul
• Tibetan netizens debate their prime ministerial candidates - SIFY
• Election 2011: Tibetan Democracy in Action: Phase One - ICT
• Election 2011: Evaluate the Manifesto of the Candidates - Tibetan Political Review
• Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison - AP
• Amazing 1903 photos that showed the secret kingdom of Tibet for the very first time to be auctioned off - Daily Mail
• Greater effort urged to translate Dalai Lama’s works into Chinese - Tibetan Review
• Tibetans-in-exile vote for their parliament and cabinet - Thaindian
• Nepal police disrupt Tibetan elections in Kathmandu - Phayul
• Amidst uncertainty, Tibetan exiles vote for future - Hindustan Times
• Tibetan exiles go to preliminary polls - Phayul

• Why China isn't fit to lead Asia - Globe and Mail
• A Beijing Backlash - Newsweek
• India to upgrade Nyoma in Ladakh as air base - Tibetan Review
• India cautiously watching China's military growth: IAF Chief - Economic Times
• You Have Been Warned: China's "Pressure Issue" - Huffington Post
• Explore the Himalayas...in New York City! - Tibet Custom
• Over 1,300 Chinese Buddhists Attend Teachings in Dharamsala - CTA
• Musings after the Tibetan Elections of October 3, 2010 - Tibet Report
• Tibetans condemn Nepal for disrupting exile-prelim elections - Phayul
• A thwarted election - The Economist
• Nepalese police seize ballot boxes from Tibetan exile election - ICT
• Tibetan Elections: Voting in North America - CTA
• Tibetan Elections: Tibetans In Exile Go To Polls - CTA

• Chinese, Japanese hold highest-level meeting since dispute broke out over islands - CP
• Wen Jiabao promises political reform for China - Telegraph
• Opinion: Regrets, I've had a few - Toronto Sun
• Producer to discuss films on the Dalai Lama - Evansville Courier & Press
• Dorjee advocates for Tibetan practices in Western medicine - The Dartmouth
• Street Dogs: American Musicians Stand Up For Tibet's Imprisoned Artists (VIDEO) - Huffington Post
• Beijing building Potemkin village in Tibet - Asia Times
• Religious discourse by Dalai Lama begins at Dharamsala - SIFY
• Press Release: The Panchen Lama Controversy - prlog.org
• Those Giving Voice to "Scorching Sun of Tibet" By Woeser - High Peaks Pure Earth
• Special Envoy Kasur Lodi Gyari talks to VOA and RFA on situation in Nepal - CTA
• Editorial: No anti-neighbor activities, please! - Republika
• Nepal blocks Tibet voting - Hindustan Times
• Police Confiscate Tibetan Ballots - RFA
• Tibetan man from Ngaba arrested in Chengdu - Phayul
• Opinion: Vote by proxy, a solution? - Phayul

• China: The Case for Selective Failure - Wilson Quarterly
• Previously unknown language emerges in India - CNN
• Pali-Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary in offing - CTA
• Indian envoy faces Maoist wrath for trip to Tibet border - Thaindian
• How tight is China's Communist grip? - Money Observer
• New Autobiography MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY by the Dalai Lama - HarperOne
• Chinese dissident tipped for Nobel Peace Prize - Toronto Star
• Nobel Committee faces down the dragon - Asia Times
• How Western Media Coverage of Tibet Was Manipulated - Epoch Times
• Wife of imprisoned tibetan filmmaker in Berlin - Tibet Initiative Deutschland e.V.
• Press release: Appeal letter to Norwegian Government - Norwegian Tibet Committee

• HRIC, in Joint Appeal, Urges EU to Push for Rights Progress in China - Human Rights in China
• Rare photographs of Tibet sold for 38,400 pounds in UK - MSN News
• Free Tibet World Bike Tour resumes after Tibetan family pays $18,000 bond - Phayul
• China to expand road network in Tibet by 20 per cent by 2015, connect all rural townships - AP
• Heavy sentences for Drepung Monks - TCHRD
• Dawa Sangpo Dorjee Challanges Dalai Lama for Spiritual test - Voice of Sikkim
• Tibet Demonstration Pressures China - ThirdAge.com
• European Union's Top Lawmaker Supports Resumption of Talk on Tibet - CTA
• Opinion: The spirit of Tibet - Daily Pioneer
• Phuntsokling Tibetan Settlement Witnesses High Voter Turnout - CTA
• Nepal is now no more than a puppet for China - Tibet Society
• UK Nepalese Embassy agrees to follow-up on Tibetan "ballot boxes" incident - Tsering Passang
• Call to Protect Exile Rights - RFA
• International community calls for protection of Tibetans' democratic rights in Nepal - CTA
• Ballot boxes in legal black hole - TibetInfoNet
• Beijing playing its Kashmir card - Asia Times
• An Interview: Novelist 'astonished' over Tiananmen - Asia Times
• Bhutan: Kingdom in the clouds - Sydney Morning Herald
• Railways in Tibet - Economist
• Liu Xiaobo Profile - Monsters and Critics
• Nobel peace prize a slap in the face for China - Swedish Wire
• Beijing blocks news of peace prize for dissident - Swedish Wire
• Liu's wife kept from doing interviews: brother-in-law - AFP
• Chinese netizens angry at Wen interview blackout - AFP
• China: Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Spotlights Rights Deficit - Human Rights Watch
• Press Release: A worthy Nobel Prize winner - Norwegian Tibet Committee
• Congratulations to Mr. Liu Xiabo for winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize - TCHRD
• Kashag's Press Statement on Liu Xiaobo Winning This Year's Nobel Peace Prize - CTA
• Dalai Lama urges release of Nobel winner - Sydney Morning Herald
• Press Statement: H.H the Dalai Lama On Liu Xiaobo Being Awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize - CTA
• Liu Xiaobo's Peace Prize: A Victory for Tibet - Huffington Post
• The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman - Huffington Post
• Interview with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Part 1 and 2 - Interdependence Project
• Editorial: China -- 2010 Nobel Peace Prize a disgrace - Global Times
• Nobel Peace Prize winner's wife has 'disappeared,' lawyer says - AP
• TIBET--CHINA Two Tibetan monks get lengthy prison terms in Lhasa - Asia News
• The strange destinies of Liu Xiaobo and Wen Jiabao - Rediff
• Tibet in Song': Exploring What The Chinese Occupation Has Meant For Buddhism - Huffington Post
• Representative Thubten Samdup la opens "The Missing Peace -- Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" exhibition at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm - Office of Tibet, London
• Tibetan Medical Camp (Oct 13-15, 2010) - Friends of Tibet (India)
• Tibetan delegates from 12 European countries will meet in Paris this week to find solutions for future cooperation - Europe Tibetan Congress
• Some Thoughts on the Upcoming Kalon Tripa Elections - by Jamyang Norbu - Shadow Tibet
• Dalai Lama inaugurates World Peace Festival in Pune - ANI

• Tibet Exhibition Running Successfully in Taiwan - CTA
• Amnesty International and Boston Tibetans march for jailed Tibetan filmmaker - Phayul
• Wife allowed to meet jailed Chinese Nobel winner - AP
• Tibetan Leader: Beijing is afraid of Liu's voice and wants to silence him - Asia News
• Nobel torments comrades - Left focuses attack on committee, not Chinese laureate - Calcutta Telegraph
• Parliament Seeks UN Help to Secure Tibetans' Rights in Nepal - CTA
• Foreign forces must not interfere in Tibetan Buddhism affairs - Xinhua
• New rule bans overseas role in Tibet's temples - Tibetan Review
• China tightens control of Tibetan monasteries, blames "separatists" - DPA
• The Train in Tibet and the Clouds over the Himalayas - The Statesman
• Evaluate the Manifesto of the Candidates (Revised Version) - Tibetan Review
• Election 2011: Job Descriptions of the Kalon Tripa and Chitue - Tibetan Review

• China stops visit to Nobel winner's wife - AP
• Peace Prize winner's wife placed under house arrest - The Independent
• China Needs to open up, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Tibet House Japan
• Chinese dragon versus Indian tiger - Morung Express
• Bhutan: Religious literature goes online - Kuensel Online
• Training on the Path of Bodhisattvas - Thubten Lekshey Ling Nyingma Buddhist Centre
• Tibetans in Europe meeting in Paris - Tibetan Review
• Chinese-Tibetan Friendship Society Europe Organize Debate in Belgium - Tibet Post
• 'My Spiritual Journey,' by The Dalai Lama - Huffington Post
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Arrives in California - ICT
• Tibetan parliament urges Nepal to return confiscated ballot boxes - Phayul
• China's Theft of Tibetan Ballots Threatens Democracy Everywhere - Huffington Post
• Trade between India and Tibet in the Colonial Period - Voice of Sikkim
• Now, Chinese rail link right up to Arunachal - Times of India
• Rising China And Indian Response - SAAG
• How China is Weaker Than it Looks - The Diplomat
• Open letter from ex party officials calls for end to media censorship in China - South China Morning Post
• Mainland media's political reform push gathers steam - South China Morning Post
• Regional Tibetan Youth Congress Wisconsin newly formed - Phayul
• Kalsang Phuntsok Godrukpa and the Problem With Proxy Websites - Tibetan Political Review
• Torture Without Trace: Five Songs by Detained Tibetan Singer Tashi Dhondup - High Peaks Pure Earth
• I Saw It with My Own Eyes: Abuses by Chinese Security Forces in Tibet - Human Rights Watch

• Tibet in History this Week - Tibetan Review
• Book Review The Negotiations That Never Were appeared - Free Press Journal
• Band records song for Tibetan freedom - Tibetan Review
• Tibetan seniors cook for the Dalai Lama - Toronto Star
• Delhi sweats as China inches toward Nepal - Asia Times
• Top Chinese leaders meet to decide blueprint for next 5 years - CNN
• Chinese activists urge Beijing to release Liu Xiaobo - Guardian
• Our Opinion: Balancing Tibet-China Commitments - Emory Wheel
• Tibetan nun insane after torture by Chinese police - Tibetan Review
• China jails Tibetan school boy for protesting - Tibetan Review
• Tibetan writer "Shogdung" released on "bail pending trial" - Phayul
• Kalon Tripa Professor Samdhong Rinpoche to visit US and Canada - CTA
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Discusses Tibet with Chinese Students - CTA
• Tenth round of talks likely in December, says Tibetan PM - Phayul
• Not seeking Tibet's freedom but autonomy: Dalai Lama - Thaindian
• Pacific Rim Film Fest Starts Today - Santa Cruz Patch
• Delhi sweats as China inches toward Nepal - Asia Times
• Beijing should let sleeping Nobel dogs lie - Asia Times
• Open letter from Party elders calls for free speech - China Media Project
• China's Charter 08 - New York Book Review
• Area Buddhists look forward to Dalai Lama's Toronto visit - The Record
• Tibetan writer Tagyal released from prison on bail - ICT
• Representative Thubten Samdup la Speaks on Tibet at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland - Office of Tibet, London
• Dalai Lama belongs to the entire world: Yoga maestro Baba Ramdev - Phayul
• French Lawmakers call for Dhondup Wangchen's release, meet wife Lhamo Tso - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks to KTSF Chinese program - CTA

• Book: First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World - ibtauris
• Himalaya Film Festival: Journey to a Hidden Universe - in New York City - Kansas City Star
• Book: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China - horsethatleaps.com
• Is Wen 'putting on a show'? - Claude Arpi
• China Pulls The Wool Over Europe's Eyes Once Again - The Gov Monitor
• Tibet, A Story Yet Untold - Morung Express
• On 'National Day' - Three Tibetan Writers Recently Arrested" By Woeser - Tibet Custom
• Exile gov't denies 10th Sino-Tibetan talks likely in Dec. 10 - Tibetan Review
• In Ga., Dalai Lama urges science, religion balance - AP

• On BMW bike, US national of Tibetan origin on mission motherland - Indian Express
• China and Pakistan "irritants" for India: Indian army chief - Phayul
• China VP Xi promoted to key military commission - AP
• Dalai Lama Smiles on Tibet Oral History Project - Tibet Culture
• His Holiness Discusses Meditation, Compassion with Emory Scientists - AOL
• The Kyegu earthquake: six months on - ICT
• Lobsang Sangay La's Response by Jamyang Norbu - Shadow Tibet
• Further Musings on the Upcoming Elections by Jamyang Norbu - Shadow Tibet
• Congressional Report: US Urges China To Hold Substantive Dialogue on Tibet - CTA
• US Special Co-ordinator calls on His Holiness the Dalai Lama - CTA
• Cautious support growing in China for Tibetan autonomy, Dalai Lama says - Toronto Star
• Dalai Lama Given Map Showing an Independent Tibet before USA Visit - BigNews.Biz

• Filmmaker Preserves Dying Tibetan Folk Music - VOA
• TIBET: 1950-2010. 60 years of occupation. - All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet
• Media group honors 4 female journalists - AP
• China's next leader remains closed book - Financial Times
• China promotes likely Hu successor to key position - Washington Post
• The Dalai Lama is a meat-eater - Toronto Star
• Dalai Lama holds 'office hours' with Emory University students, faculty as part of US visit - CP
• Cohn: Time running out for Dalai Lama - Toronto Star
• Release of Intellectuals - TCHRD
• Statement in support of three environmentalist brothers in Tibet by global conservation activists - ICT
• Tibetan students in China protest over language policy - BBC News
• Tibet in History this Week - Tibetan Review
• Eating Tibetan to preserve a culture - Toronto Star
• Tibetans protest against acquisition of Gyama mine by Canadian company - Phayul
• Tibetan centre coming together just in time - Inside Toronto
• Dalai Lama makes weekend visit to Toronto - Toronto Star
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Representative concludes his visit to Oslo, Norway - Office of Tibet, London
• SFT UW - Madison members asked to leave local China forum - Daily Cardinal
• China's marks 60th anniversary of invading eastern Tibet - Tibetan Review
• International Symposium on "1913 Treaty between Mongolia and Tibet" held in Mongolia - CTA
• Tibet students in Tibet Protest China's Policy on Tibetan Language - CTA
• Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis - Huffington Post
• Democracy in China may resolve Tibet issue: Dalai Lama - Indian Express
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Honoured with Int'l Freedom Conductor Award - Phayul
• Chamdo Exhibition Marks 60th Anniversary of Chinese Invasion - Tibet Post
• Tibet in Song: A doc with an identity crisis - Globe & Mail
• Indian and China hover over Nepal - Asia Times
• Chinese dissidents plan their own WikiLeaks - South China Morning Post
• Richard Gere, Pulitzer Winner A Walker Join His Holiness in Debate about the Arts - Tibet Post
• Tibetans attend conference on liberation technology at Stanford University - CTA
• 'Tibet One' rides into city with a message of freedom - Hindustan Times
• Election 2011: Investigating Lobsang Sangay's "Obama of China" Statement - Tibetan Political Review
• Dalai Lama set to arrive in Toronto - CP
• Woeser's Acceptance Speech: International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, 2010 - High Peaks Pure Earth
• Tibet language protests spread in China: rights group - AFP
• Tibetan student protests spread - Guardian
• Security Tight in Tibetan Towns - RFA
• Tibetan Students in Beijing Protest for Tibetan Language; Tibetan Netizens Show Support Online - High Peaks Pure Earth

• Poem: Feelings - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Remembering Tibet's Freedom Fighters by Jamyang Norbu - Huffington Post
• Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel - International Herald Tribune
• Protests by students against downgrading of Tibetan language spread to Beijing - ICT
• China smooths over Tibet language row - Wales Online
• Dalai Lama still revered by Tibetans in China - Toronto Star
• China to open Shigatse airport, Tibet, in Nov.10 - Tibetan Review
• 'He is Buddhism' - National Post
• His Holiness attends Symposium on Cognitive Science at University of Toronto - CTA
• Dalai Lama's plea for peace -- and retirement - Toronto Star

• China set to reassert clout in UN - Asia Times
• In China, as tourists come, culture goes - Asia Times
• China holds first live-fire joint drills in Tibet - AP
• Chinese Article Seems to Chide Leader - International Herald Tribune
• Tibetan protester visits 22 countries on motorbike - AP
• Tibetan Children Appeal To European Parliament Over China Language Policy - NTD Television
• Uyghurs Support Language Protest - RFA
• Protest over language spreads to neigbouring Gansu province - Phayul
• China Genocides Tibet's Language: Violating UN Law - Tibet Post
• Nepal arrests 7 Tibetans, Nepalese prez reiterates one China policy - Phayul
• Liu Xiaobo: "Han Chinese Have No Freedom, Tibetans Have No Autonomy" By Woeser - High Peaks Pure Earth
• President Yadav reaches Lhasa - Nepal News
• Chinese Army conducts live military exercises in Tibet - Expressindia
• China's Fury Over Nobel Peace Prize Continues - Tibet Post
• His Holiness Joins Nobel Laureates' Call to Free Liu Xiaobo - CTA
• Taking Harder Stance Toward China, Obama Lines Up Allies - New York Times
• Tibetan musician finds a home in Toronto - Toronto Star
• China has no "moral right" to host Asian Games: TYC - Phayul
• CTA and Schools of Tibetan Buddhism Reject China's Regulation on Monastic Management - CTA
• Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi Opens Website - CTA
• Tibet: Young democracy faces a big challenge - Toronto Star
• Tibetan teachers write petition in support of Tibetan language; fears for students after detentions - ICT
• China Must Stop Sinicization of Tibetan Language - Tibet House, Japan
• Press release: Demonstration of solidarity in front of the Chinese consulate in Zurich - TYAE
• Hundreds sign petition for Tibet language: activists - AFP
• The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans - Huffington Post

• Prez Yadav visits Potala Palace - Himalayan Times
• Nepal President Arrives in Tibet, Festival Disrupted - Tibet Post
• The Nepalese Princess - Claude Arpi
• Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China - San Diego Reader
• Take 5 with Tim: Lama Arjia Rinpoche - jconline.com
• Thousands greet Tibetan motorbike rider on completion of Free Tibet world Tour - Phayul
• The fight goes on in Tibet's toehold in India - The Age
• The Inside Story -- Centuries-old saga - The Hindu
• My Take: Why the Dalai Lama became a global icon - CNN
• Dalai Lama talks of retirement - CNN
• China gets paranoiac over India's 'Look East Policy' - Tibetan Review
• A Poem: A Call For Redemption - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• 'Tibet in Song' lands director in prison - San Francisco Chronicle
• Top Buddhist scholar to give workshop in Phuket - Phuket Gazette
• Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Birthday Celebrated in Exile - Tibet Post
• Exile's life of watching, waiting - Cowra Guardian
• Dalai Lama ends North America tour on ethics and religious harmony notes - Tibetan Review
• Released Tibetan in Poor Health - RFA
• The Dalai Lama - Woodstock Sentinel-Review