Dalai Lama to Visit France in June
Phayul, April 28, by Tenam
In a visit that is likely to raise the political temperature between Paris and Beijing, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be arriving in France for a two-day, 6-7 June, visit to the French capital. It is expected that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will also be officially presented with the Citizen of Honour, a legislation that the Paris City had passed in April 2008.
After the mass protest against the Beijing torch relay in Paris, France has been the target of government and nationalist scorn in China. French supermarket chain Carefour came under increasing calls for boycott. President Sarkozy sent a delegation of high level French officials led by former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to China. It has been widely reported that the Speaker of the French National Assembly was sent by President Sarkozy to China with an invitation for Chinese president Hu Jintao to visit France.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his French interpreter Mathieu Ricard at a press conference in Paris, August 2008. Photo: Tenam
Before the G 20 meeting in London, a joint communique by the French foreign ministry and China on 1 April, declared that France does not “support any form of Tibet’s independence,” which is credited with the eventual meeting between Sarkozy and Hu Jintao in London.
The Tibet Group in the French Senate said in response that the Tibet issue cannot be considered an internal issue of China and that the Tibetan cause is very important and sensitive to the French people and their elected officials.
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By T Vajra, May 15, 2009 @ 8:26 am
Angry Buddhist Dalai Lama followers attacking peaceful protestors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSB-lyw77y8
Dalai Lama bans a spiritual practise and on the orders of the Tbetan Government shops and hospitals ban Dorje Shugden practitioners. They can receive no treatment nor food!
http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/reports/untouchables-shocking-posters-in-monastery/
videodocumentary about the effects of the ban on Dorje Shugden practise in te Tibetan community in India.
http://www.france24.com/en/20080808-dalai-lama-demons-india-buddhism-dorje-shugden
By Jennifer Lancey, September 27, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
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By Globals, October 2, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
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By arthur, October 6, 2009 @ 2:41 am
please pass my comment around the world specially to China Government.
1/ China tries to prove to be the super power in the world
2/ China using weapon, army to kill inocent people
3/ China using force to invade south asia island, especially threaten and kill vietnamese fisherman.
4/ China said never afraid of any enemies and other super power in the world
For Good Shake. ………China have everything and never afraid any enemy but……………….they are afraid of Dalai Lama …………..
look at yourself China. what a shame.
Dalai Lama does not have any weapons, no money, no high tech weapon. the only weapon Dalai Lama has is The Truth Heart, Buddha bibble.
China lost……………..lost……………..
Dalai Lama WON———-WON——WON
CHINA WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DON TO TIBET AND OTHER COUNTRY IN ASIA.