HH Dalai Lama's Tawang visit!

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Hypocrisy much eh? Next time, use some legitimate insults.
I can only insult somebody who has any dignity or honesty or self respect................apparently you betray none,you don't even qualify for my alleged insults.
 

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You'll notice, Rage, that the reporters are nowhere to be seen with the Dalai Lama. The New York Times is not lying with their report.
 

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If you read the NY Times piece, Indian personnel prevented reporters from asking the Dalai Lama questions in reference to their concern over the Chinese reaction.

I don't give a pigeon's arse about your New Dork Times piece. Watch the videos I posted and the videos of Indian news channels on youtube. There is no obstruction to the process of journalistic inquiry, including on China's jumping on the boobmobile over his visit to Arunaachal Pradesh.
 

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You'll notice, Rage, that the reporters are nowhere to be seen with the Dalai Lama. The New York Times is not lying with their report.
Koji,

Check this video. Reporters are there with Dalai Lama. He also made comments against China for politicizing this issue. I think China should shut up and mind its own business instead of interfering in India's internal affairs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8349385.stm
 

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I don't give a pigeon's arse about your New Dork Times piece. Watch the videos I posted and the videos of Indian news channels on youtube. There is no obstruction to the process of journalistic inquiry, including on China's jumping on the boobmobile over his visit to Arunaachal Pradesh.
Then where is an interview with the Dalai Lama? I see none with foreign news agencies.
 

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Dalai Lama holds mass gathering
Page last updated at 09:55 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009

Dalai Lama holds mass gathering


Tens of thousands of ethnic Tibetans have poured into the town of Tawang in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to hear an address by the Dalai Lama.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is currently on a week-long tour of Arunachal Pradesh - itself a source of dispute between Beijing and Delhi.

Beijing has accused the Dalai Lama of trying to undermine its rule in Tibet and says the visit is anti-China.

The Dalai Lama insists his visit is a spiritual lecture tour.

The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 when Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet.

In August this year, the Dalai Lama, 74, made another hugely controversial visit - to Taiwan, another region China considers part of its territory.

Thronging town

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Tawang says tens of thousands of people began pouring into Tawang in the early hours of Monday morning to hear the Dalai Lama speak.





'China bashing' in the Indian media
Many had travelled for days to be there and some had come from neighbouring Bhutan, our correspondent says.

Banners and Buddhist prayer flags lined the streets.

"It made us very happy to catch a glimpse of him. Nobody is more important to us than him. The Dalai Lama is our god," Karmayacha, who travelled 20 miles to attend the meeting, told the Associated Press news agency.

People packed an open-air polo ground to hear the Dalai Lama's address.

"Compassion and peace are the two words that should be remembered by all," the Dalai Lama is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying when he opened his programme of religious teaching.

He also opened a hospital in the town, to which he had contributed 2m rupees ($40,000).

Influential monastery

Although it is a remote frontier town, Tawang has immense strategic value. Its 300-year-old monastery is one of the most influential outside of Tibet.



Many devotees travelled for days to see the Dalai Lama
It was at this monastery that the Dalai Lama sought refuge when he fled 50 years ago.

The Dalai Lama has made a number of visits to the town over the years since then.

"My visit to Tawang is non-political and aimed at promoting universal brotherhood and nothing else," the Dalai Lama said on Sunday.

Arunachal Pradesh's Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu said Beijing had "no right to interfere in India's internal matters".

etc etc


my comments ;

This is a BBC report dated today
as you can see China cant hide the fact from the world

foreign jpurnalists are not being kept out
 

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You'll notice, Rage, that the reporters are nowhere to be seen with the Dalai Lama. The New York Times is not lying with their report.

Enough with your tripe. If you can't see that that 'reporters are asking the Dalai Lama questions, then you need to see an optometrist.

Now stop spewing your half-baked, agenda-based lies on this forum. Or you'll be gone before you can say 'jigaboo'.
 

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Then where is an interview with the Dalai Lama? I see none with foreign news agencies.

'Foreign news agencies'? They have interviews in English with Indian news agencies, who if anything are even more inquisitive and prurient than their foreign counterparts.

Don't aver that we would not allow the Dalai Lama to be interviewed by foreign journalists on 'sensitive subjects' to press your subtle agenda of us 'trying to appease China'.

He has been interviewed in the heart of the Tibetan community's exile in India by foreign journalists, in Dharamsala:

YouTube - CNN's Dalai Lama Interview at Dharamsala

This is a Dew York interview on the Dalai Lama on China's latest human rights abuses in Tibet:

YouTube - World: An Interview With the Dalai Lama - nytimes.com/video
 

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These are not on the recent trip. The media clampdown is in reference to this current trip.
 

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India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip - Yahoo! News


Click on the AP video link and LISTEN to how the media is saying that Indian officials are clamping down on journalists.
AP is a syndicated news, you will find the same thing in NYTimes, Yahoo and other media outlets. Nothing new there.

In the video I posted it is clear that there were reporters with HH Dalai Lama and he made a statement against China. So I don't understand what is your pain, unless you have some agenda to prove something in favor of China.
 

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It is because there is widespread denial that India is attempting to minimize the exposure of this event.
 
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This is a good way to do it by India by supposedly minimizing attention he is getting even more attention this is the top story on every Indian news channel, the whole world loves you Dalai Lama and support your cause.
 

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, greets Buddhist devotees before preaching in Tawang, in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, India, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.


Thousands of Buddhist devotees listen to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a preaching session in Tawang, in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, India, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.



Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets Buddhist devotees before preaching in Tawang, in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, India, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.



 

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India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip - Yahoo! News


Click on the AP video link and LISTEN to how the media is saying that Indian officials are clamping down on journalists.

Obviously a figment of their imagination- and yours: I have interviews with the Dalai Lama from Monday, laying bare the dubious claim that the 'media weren't allowed anywhere near him'. Furthermore, if you watch the videos, you will notice that they were taken at the entrance of a reception guesthouse, where the Dalai Lama arrived immediately upon landing at Tawang, and that people were snapping photographs of him on the periphery of his bodyguard even while he was proceeding down from his plane, while still under 'his umbrella'.

Furthermore, you may want to read up on the nature of AP. It is a syndicated press, meaning that it envisages sale of right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network. A syndicated program is sold to stations for "cash"- and therefore the agency acquires 'news', and tripe from other sources, including the Dew Dork Times.
 

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India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip - Yahoo! News


Click on the AP video link and LISTEN to how the media is saying that Indian officials are clamping down on journalists.
The same news you quoted, if true also gives the reason for "so called" clamp down on journalists.

Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China.
 

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The ballyhoo that the commy's the managed to raise in the last fortnight over this issue,has more than ensured the visit got more exposure that it would otherwise have elicited.........

'Mad dogs and English men' they say,add the chicom's to that :)

What a bunch of bonkers :)
 

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These are not on the recent trip. The media clampdown is in reference to this current trip.

The videos were to oppugn the fictitious notion that our government would go to great lengths to 'appease' the Chinese by censoring foreign journalists over 'sensitive issues'. If our government is prepared to grant access to the international media to interview the Dalai Lama over China's vicious crackdown in Tibet, it will not crimp from providing them access to cover a trip to Tawang.
 

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It is because there is widespread denial that India is attempting to minimize the exposure of this event.

That is enough from you.



India denies barring foreign media from covering Dalai Lama in Arunachal


(Nov08, 2009) India has on Nov 5 denied media reports that it had decided to bar foreign journalists from covering the Dalai Lama’s Nov 8-13 visit to the politically sensitive border state of Arunachal Pradesh. “No foreign journalist has been denied a permit so far. The applications are under consideration. Due process is being followed,” the IANS news service Nov 5 quoted official sources as saying.

“The ministry of external affairs, the nodal agency for foreign correspondents, recommends them to the ministry of home affairs when applications are made to visit Arunachal Pradesh,” the sources were quoted as saying.

Also, the PTI news agency Nov 5 cited Arunachal’s Chief secretary Tabom Bam as denying having received any instruction from New Delhi about restrictions on foreign mediapersons.

On the other hand, India Today online Nov 6 said New Delhi had, on Nov 5, revoked passes issued to seven foreign journalists, including two from the Associated Press and one from The Times, London. The report said that these journalists were turned back from the Guwahati airport where they were about to board a helicopter for Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

“Despite numerous requests over the past few weeks, India’s central government has not granted a single foreign journalist permission to travel to the state of Arunachal Pradesh during the Dalai Lama’s visit,” the New York Times online Nov 5 quoted the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia as saying in a statement Nov 5 evening.

The club said it was “surprised and disappointed” by New Delhi’s failure to approve other applications.

Foreigners require Restricted Area Permits, issued by the Union home ministry, to visit the Northeastern states. Even Indian citizens from other states also require Inner Line Permit to visit the state. However, Indian journalists working for foreign media organisations have so far not been barred.

Meanwhile, more than 800 monks, led by their abbot, remain ready to welcome the Dalai Lama at Tawang Monastery. “Preparations are almost complete with 700 to 800 monks all set to give the Dalai Lama a religious welcome,” IANS new service Nov 5 quoted Tsona Rinpoche, a senior Buddhist leader and a former state minister, as saying.

Tawang is the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama, the reason China cites for staking claim over the territory. And it was through Tawang that the current Dalai Lama entered India after he escaped from Chinese occupied Tibet.


India denies foreign press barred from Dalai Lama’s visit
India denies barring foreign media from covering Dalai Lama in Arunachal - Tibetan Review
 

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