Two Nobel Peace laureates hold White House talks, despite Chinese warnings.

Every sitting U.S. president has met with the Dalai Lama since George H. W. Bush in 1991, with then-president George W. Bush awarding the leader the Congressional Gold Medal in a high-profile ceremony in 2007.

While Obama will not appear in public with the Dalai Lama and, like his White House predecessors, will deny him the symbolism of meeting in the Oval Office, there are already signs that Sino-U.S. relations may be deteriorating since Obama’s November visit to China.

On the eve of the Dalai Lama’s visit, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insisted the United States and China — the world’s largest and third-biggest economies — have a “mature relationship” capable of withstanding disagreements.

Beijing said it was “strongly dissatisfied” about the meeting and expected Washington to take steps to put bilateral relations back on a healthy course. (...)
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New arrival in the Tibetan Incense Shop - Chenrezig Mandala Thangka.

Buddha Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara in sanskrit), the Compassion Buddha, is the embodiment of the universal compassion of all enlightened beings. By relying upon him, we naturally increase our own compassion. His first two hands hold a jewel, symbolizing his own enlightenment; his second left hand holds a white lotus flower, symbolizing his complete purity of body, speech, and mind; and his second right hand holds a crystal mala, symbolizing that he can free all living beings from samsara.

Chenrezig Mandala Thangka

Thangka is traditionally framed in borders of silk brocade.

Size of Painted Surface 15″ X 20″ (36 X 51 cm.)
Size with Brocade 26″ X 44″ (65 X 112 cm.)

Painted in Buddhist Monastery in Kalimpong, North India.

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NY Times - U.S. President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.

Digging in on two points of discord, China vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against U.S. companies selling arms to Taiwan and said any meeting between Obama and the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader would hurt bilateral ties.

Barack Obama

The White House shrugged off Beijing’s warning.

“The president told China’s leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama and he intends to do so,” White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters travelling with Obama to New Hampshire.

“We expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work on areas of mutual concern such as climate, the global economy and non-proliferation and discuss frankly and candidly those areas where we disagree.”

China has become increasingly vocal in opposing meetings between foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama, who Beijing deems a dangerous separatist. A meeting between the Tibetan leader and Obama would raise tensions between the world’s biggest and third-biggest economies.

Ties between the United States and China have also soured over trade and currency quarrels, cyber security and control of the Internet, and Beijing’s jailing of dissidents.

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Washington wanted to “work through” disputes in various bilateral meetings the United States has with China.

“You have two of the most powerful nations on earth and our interests coincide in many areas and our interests collide occasionally in a handful of those,” he told reporters.

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But now it’s OK.

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A great Christmas gift for your family and friends: Healing Buddha Praying Incense Set with Buddha statue made from herbs.

The set contains 1 scented Buddha Statue, 4 packs of different stick incense and a wooden incense holder.

This statue of Lord Buddha is made from about hundred precious medicinal herbal ingredients, among them sandalwood, gurgum, saffron. Combination of these herbs helps to bring a peace and power of concentration to the mind.
The statue also contains Zung (the Mantra) blessed by many renowned Rinpoches and lamas in dedication to the world peace.

You can buy this Buddha Praying Set with Christmas discount: only usd 10.80 instead of usd 15!

Healing Buddha Praying Incense Set

Despite red statue and box at the picture, only green ones are available in stock right now.

Buy the Healing Buddha Praying Incense Set with Christmas discount - only us$ 10.80!

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Tibetan Incense Shop offers you great Christmas gift for your family and friends: authentic wooden Tibetan Incense Burner.

The burners of this series are of two lengths - matched for 7″ and 12″ incense sticks; and of two designs - Tashi Dargye/Eight Auspicious Symbols/Ashtamangal, and mantra Om Mani Peme Hung.

You can buy these Incense Burners with huge Christmas discount for all the winter holidays: only us$ 32 instead of 58 for the long one, and only us$ 22 instead of 38 for the short one!

Ashtamangal Incense Burner

Ashtamangal Incense Burner

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Kuenselonline, 28 September, 2009 - A 241-year old Gyalwa Jampa thongdroel (giant thangka) of the Buddha Maitreya, or the future Buddha, was unfurled at the Phajoding monastery in Thimphu yesterday, after 47 years.

Gyalwa Jampa Giant Thangka

The 37 by 31 feet thongdroel, the first of its kind in the country, was constructed by the 14th Je Khenpo, Tenzin Namgyel, according to the principal of Phajoding shedra, Chimi Dorji.

Hundreds of devotees from Thimphu and nearby areas visited Phajoding to receive blessings from the rare thongdroel, which was displayed to the public on the advice of the central monk body for the wellbeing of all sentient beings.

Shakyamuni Buddha predicted that, due to the inevitable degeneration of the times, his own teachings would last just five thousand years before disappearing from this world. People will grow more immoral and their lifespan will gradually decrease, as will their health, stature and fortune. While such delusions as miserliness, hatred and jealousy gain strength, the world will go through prolonged periods of famine, disease and continuous warfare until it eventually resembles a vast battlefield or graveyard. Thereupon Maitreya will appear, not in his fully evolved buddha form, but as a person of regal bearing.

Shakyamuni Buddha also predicted that those who followed his teachings would be reborn in the first circle of Maitreya’s entourage and would be able to complete the spiritual path under Maitreya’s guidance.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled religious leader — brushed aside by U.S. President Barack Obama in favor of communist China — was saluted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for his work for human rights.

The presentation ceremony underscored Obama’s dilemma in dealing with China, a growing power and the biggest holder of U.S. debt, and the Dalai Lama, a self-described “simple Buddhist monk” who Beijing accuses of seeking to separate Tibet from China.

For the first time in 18 years, the Dalai Lama is visiting Washington this week without stopping by to see the U.S. president.

John McCain

The decision not to meet the Tibetan leader was made amid efforts to improve U.S.-Chinese relations on issues from stemming global warming to reigning in North Korea’s nuclear weapons.(...)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters)  - President Barack Obama will not meet the Dalai Lama during his five-day trip to the U.S. capital beginning on Monday, the first time in 18 years the exiled Tibetan leader has visited Washington without seeing the president.

Obama instead intends to wait until after his November summit with Chinese leader Hu Jintao before meeting the Dalai Lama, possibly sometime in December, officials said.

The decision to break precedent and delay any meeting was conveyed to the Dalai Lama last month when Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and State Department Undersecretary Maria Otero traveled to Dharamsala, India, to explain the administration’s approach on Tibet.

“The administration, I think, is aware it is breaking a precedent … but clearly they have their reasons for that and he (the Dalai Lama) agreed with the decision that was made,” said Kate Saunders, a spokeswoman for the Tibetan Buddhist leader.

Saunders said the Dalai Lama and the Obama administration had agreed to a meeting after the U.S.-Chinese summit. The session is “likely to be before the end of the year, probably in December,” she said.(...)
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For the first time since 1991 the President will not meet with the Dalai Lama during his U.S. visit.

Obama’s Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed

Move Appears to Be A Nod to Chinese

By John Pomfret
Washington Post, Monday, October 5, 2009

In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks.

President Obama is snubbing the Dalia Lama. (c) Getty Images

For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been “drop-in” visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest civilian award.(...)
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