Read more Tibetan monks stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28502/tibetan-monks.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:56:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/62481/dalai-lama-to-tibet-you-need-2-of-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Dalai Lama has told Tibetans his successor should not bear the burden of being both spiritual and political leader to their community, the Independent reports. "When we put the whole responsibility in the person of the Dalai Lama, it is dangerous," he said in a video address at a...http://www.newser.com/story/62481/dalai-lama-to-tibet-you-need-2-of-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 4:55:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60624/boy-chosen-by-dalai-lama-abandons-buddhism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen he was still a toddler, Osel Hita Torres was brought from Spain to an Indian monastery, where the Dalai Lama proclaimed him the reincarnation of one of Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leaders. But Torres, now 24, has abandoned the order and returned to Spain, where he studies film and says...http://www.newser.com/story/60624/boy-chosen-by-dalai-lama-abandons-buddhism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 7:19:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54046/china-busts-100-monks-after-attack-on-police.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChina arrested almost 100 monks after hundreds of Tibetans attacked a Chinese police station, the AP reports. Police nabbed six while 89 others, almost all monks, turned themselves in, said the state news agency. The uproar appeared to be over a Tibetan who disappeared after he escaped from police, the...http://www.newser.com/story/54046/china-busts-100-monks-after-attack-on-police.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Mar 2009 12:16:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52488/tibet-under-martial-law-as-revolt-anniversary-nears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChina is quietly clamping down on Tibet ahead of twin anniversaries this month—the 50th of the Dalai Lama's failed revolt and the first of the violent riots that shook the region last year. Sandbag outposts, army convoys, and high police presence in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, indicate Beijing is readying...http://www.newser.com/story/52488/tibet-under-martial-law-as-revolt-anniversary-nears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Mar 2009 9:07:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46285/china-detains-59-in-tibet-for-spreading-hate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChinese police have arrested 59 people in Tibet for downloading and selling banned “reactionary songs” they say fuel ethnic hatred against migrant Han Chinese, the New York Times reports. The detainees are accused of collaborating with the exiled Dalai Lama to fuel unrest in the troubled region. State media did...http://www.newser.com/story/46285/china-detains-59-in-tibet-for-spreading-hate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Dec 2008 13:35:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/36200/50-years-on-tibets-secret-war-simmers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe little-known Tibetan resistance struggle after China's 1950 invasion still affects its politics today, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dalai Lama's brother played a vital role in the CIA-backed armed movement, largely made up of Buddhist monks, and Chinese suspicion still lingers over how much the spiritual leader himself...http://www.newser.com/story/36200/50-years-on-tibets-secret-war-simmers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 30 Aug 2008 14:23:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29587/dalai-lamas-advice-runs-to-earthier-tones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDriven by questions both spiritual and secular, more Westerners are heading to the Dalai Lama's headquarters-in-exile, the Wall Street Journal reports. Humble despite being proclaimed a “God-King,” Tibet's spiritual leader has sought “opportunities to be interactive” in the Indian town of Dharmsala—seeing a wide variety of visitors and dispensing...http://www.newser.com/story/29587/dalai-lamas-advice-runs-to-earthier-tones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Jun 2008 15:00:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26115/china-sends-30-to-prison-in-mass-tibet-trials.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Chinese court sentenced 30 people yesterday, including six monks, for taking part in the March protest riots in Tibet, the New York Times reports. The sentences ranged from three years to life in prison. Human Rights Watch watch said the trials were secret and defendants weren’t allowed representation, calling...http://www.newser.com/story/26115/china-sends-30-to-prison-in-mass-tibet-trials.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Apr 2008 7:43:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23458/chinese-police-kill-8-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChinese police killed eight protesters and wounded dozens more overnight in Sichuan province when they opened fire on a demonstration led by Tibetan monks, the Times of London reports. The altercation started when police searched a Tibetan monastery, confiscating phones and images of the Dalai Lama. After arresting two, the...http://www.newser.com/story/23458/chinese-police-kill-8-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Apr 2008 17:29:56 CDT