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The Tibetan independence movement is a movement for the independence of Tibet and the political separation of Tibet from the People's Republic of China. It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States and Europe. The movement is not supported by the 14th Dalai Lama, who although having advocated it from 1961 to the late 1970s, proposed a sort of high-level autonomy in a speech in Strasbourg in 1988, and has since then restricted his position to either autonomy for the Tibetan people in the Tibet Autonomous Region within China, or for the autonomy to extend also to areas of neighboring Chinese provinces inhabited by Tibetans.
Among other reasons for independence, campaigners assert that Tibet has been historically independent. However, some dispute this claim by using different definitions of "Tibet", "historical" and "independence". The campaigners also argue that Tibetans are currently mistreated and denied certain human rights, although the Chinese government disputes this and claims progress in human rights. Various organizations with overlapping campaigns for independence and human rights have sought to pressure various governments to support Tibetan independence or to take punitive action against China for opposing it.
The Dalai Lama /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/ is a monk of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.
The Dalai Lama is considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, called Chenrezig in Tibetan. The name is a combination of the Mongolic word dalai meaning "ocean" (being the translation of the Tibetan name, 'Gyatso') and the Tibetan word བླ་མ་ (bla-ma) meaning "guru, teacher, mentor". The Tibetan word "lama" corresponds to the better known Sanskrit word "guru".
From 1642 until the 1950s (except for 1705 to 1750), the Dalai Lamas or their regents headed the Tibetan government or Ganden Phodrang which governed all or most of the Tibetan plateau from Lhasa with varying degrees of autonomy, up to complete sovereignty. This government also enjoyed the patronage and protection of firstly Mongol kings of the Khoshut and Dzungar Khanates (1642–1720) and then of the emperors of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1720–1912).
For over 60 years, Tibetans have sought autonomy from Chinese rule and to no avail. Recent reports suggest that the region's current leader and longest living incumbent, the 14th Dalai Lama, will be the last of his kind unless Tibet gains its freedom. Will China ever grant Tibet independence? What does it mean if the Dalai Lama doesn't have a successor? Learn More: Inside Tibet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456954/html/nn0page1.stm "Tibet has become the focus of world attention after violent protests against Chinese rule." China Tells Dalai Lama again to respect reincarnation http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/us-china-tibet-idUSKBN0H50ST20140910 "China repeated a call on the Dalai Lama on Wednesday to respect what it said was the historic practice of reinca...
Watch Part 1! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2JO24e9P8&list;=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml With the U.S. celebrating independence, we wanted to take a look at which regions are seeking statehood. What groups want to be independent? Learn More: The long wait for Tibetan freedom http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/tibet-exiles-chineseinlhasadalailamaaging.html "On March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his government fled Tibet into exile, after a 12-day uprising against Chinese rule in Lhasa, Tibet's capital." General Assembly grants Palestine non-member observer State status at UN http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43640#.VZLnBBNVhBd "The General Assembly today voted to grant Palestine non-member observer State status at the United Nat...
On 'Special Report,' the Tibetan spiritual leader discusses the current situation in Tibet and China, meeting with President Obama, immigration, terrorism, views on the future
100 years ago today, Tibet's 13th Dalai Lama declared independence after the fall of China's Qing Dynasty. Today the Tibetan region is ruled under the brutal policies of the Chinese Communist Party. On this anniversary, Tibetans all over the world are calling for basic liberties that have been denied to them for the past six decades. Here in New York City, their message is simple. [Pema Yoko, Spokesperson, Students for a Free Tibet]: (English) 1:53- "Tibetans only want basic rights, basic human rights, religious freedom and this is what Tibetans are grieving about." That grief was underscored today as the 100th Tibetan self-immolated to protest Chinese rule. [Pema Yoko, Spokesperson, Students for a Free Tibet]: 00:58-1:05 "It is tragic, it's heartbreaking you know, these are precious...
China invaded Tibet in 1950 and has claimed sovereignty over the land since the 13th century. There have been several independence movements that have been brutally repressed through the decades and international protest movements demanding a Free Tibet. But whilst Tibet is a huge area of land, it's isolated, underdeveloped and the indigenous people, in general terms, do not want China there. So why is it so important? The answer is depressingly familiar: resources. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/TRUsub Arkana's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/arkana-music-official/samuel-j-finn-the-beginning-of StoneOcean's channel: www.youtube.com/ratedmusicofficial StoneOcean's music: www.stoneocean.info Why you should subscribe to Truthloader: http://bit.ly/1aGJD0a More videos from Tru...
On the centennial of Tibet's declaration of independence in 1913, Professor Robert Thurman discusses Tibetan Independence and what it has meant to different world powers.
Share this Video to expose China's brutal occupation of Tibet *Click here for more Tibet videos http://www.youtube.com/TibetArchive April 23, 2012: Chinese authorities in eastern Tibet have arrested a well-known Tibetan singer on suspected charges of singing songs calling for Tibet's independence. Lo Lo, 29, was arrested on April 19 in Yushul region of eastern Tibet. According to Lobsang Sangyal, an exile monk in south India, the singer's arrest came months after he released an album titled "Raise the flag of Tibet, sons of the snow." News Link: http://phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=31275&article;=Tibetan+singer+arrested+over+%E2%80%9Cindependence%E2%80%9D+song The title song of the album calls for independence of Tibet and reunion of the Tibetan people -- messages that are common to the s...
ཐེ་ཝེན་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱེད་མཁན་ཞིག་གི་བོད་དོན་ཁབ་བཙགས། Phenphsuan Lee believes in Tibetan Independence Twainnese Activist Phenphsuan Lee believes in Tibetan Independence see more video on youtube:Tamdingarts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnFKKtUHGmNffJbqmwKGmvw website to know more about TamdingArts:https://tamdingarts.wordpress.com/
Students for a Free Tibet highlights the Tibetan National flag which is one of the most endurable symbols of Tibet’s independent past and hundreds and thousands of Tibetans and supporters around the world are proudly raising Tibetan National flag to celebrate Tibet’s Independent past and to challenge China’s propaganda about Tibet history. By shining a light on the Tibetan National flag we will make the Tibetan flag one of the most recognizable flags in the world as a symbol of freedom and resistance. This will help to secure the Tibetan people’s proud past, and shape the future for a free Tibet.
On 'Special Report,' the Tibetan spiritual leader discusses the current situation in Tibet and China, meeting with President Obama, immigration, terrorism, views on the future
The Tibetan independence movement is a movement for the independence of Tibet and the political separation of Tibet from China.It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States and Europe.The movement is not supported by the 14th Dalai Lama, who although having advocated it from 1961 to the late 1970s, proposed a sort of high-level autonomy in a speech in Strasbourg in 1988, and has since then restricted his position to either autonomy for the Tibetan people in the Tibet Autonomous Region within China, or for the autonomy to extend also to areas of neighboring Chinese provinces inhabited by Tibetans.Among other reasons for independence, campaigners assert that Tibet has been historicall...
Tibetan Freedom Concert is the name given to a series of rock festivals held in North America, Europe and Asia from 1996 onward to support the cause of Tibetan independence. The Smashing Pumpkins was one of the bands at the opening year in Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park from June 15 & 16, 1996. An amount of $800,000 was raised and 100,000 people attended the concert.
Research Presentation for HIST 1112 Hybrid 2016
བོད་འདི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ལྡན་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཅིག་ཡིན་པ་གཞིར་བཟུང་གིས། མཐའ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བོད་དོན་འཐབ་རྩོད་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱ་མཁན་དང་། བཙན་འཛུལ་བའི་གདོང་པགས་བཤུ་མཁན་གྱི་ལྷད་མེད་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་མོ། སུད་སིའི་སྐྱེས་མ། Ramona མཐའ་མ་དེར་མོ་རང་གི་མིང་ངོ་མ་བྲིས་ན་ཡག་པོ་ཡོང་ས་རེད། Ramona Tibet Supporter from Switzerland believes in Tibetan independence which is historically true. She has firm faith that Tibetans will gain independence and Tibet will be an independent nation in future. if want to see more videos from TamdingArts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnFKKtUHGmNffJbqmwKGmvw about TamdingArts wb http://tamdingarts.com/
1. Wide of Tibetan monks and exiled Tibetans praying 2. Various of Tibetan monks praying 3. Wide of Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, sitting on stage and praying 4. Mid of Sangay 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile: "Tibetans around the world will not be celebrating New Year because 99 Tibetans have committed self-immolation of which 83 have died. So, as a form of condolences and solidarity to all those Tibetans inside Tibet, I have asked Tibetans not to celebrate, not to organise any festivals, but to wear traditional dress and go to monasteries and pray for all those who have died and continue to suffer in Tibet." 6. Close of monks praying, banner in background reading (English) " Why do Tibetans...
SHOTLIST 1. Wide of Tibetan activists chanting slogans calling for an end to Chinese rule in Tibet 2. Tibetan exiles chanting slogans UPSOUND: "Free Tibet" 3. Close-up sticker on a Tibetan woman''s face reading: "Stop Killing in Tibet" 4. Tibetan exiles raising portrait of Dalai Lama 5. Tibetan exiles singing Tibet''s national anthem 6. Wide Tibetan exiles marching with Dalai Lama portrait 7. Tibetan activists marching 8. Close-up a Tibetan man chanting slogan UPSOUND: "We want freedom" 9. Close-up poster reading: "China Stop murdering innocent Tibetans" 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nima Bhundsok, Tibetan exile: "We think that one day we will get our country back and we want to go back to our country, that''s our main point." 11. Wide of march showing Tibetan flags 12. SOUNDB...
English/Nat Several hundred Tibetan refugees have marched through New Delhi calling on US President Bill Clinton to raise the issue of Tibet when he arrives in India. Clinton, who arrived in New Delhi Sunday, will spend five days in India and Tibetans say it is an ideal opportunity for him to raise the issue of Tibetan independence with India's leaders. Campaigners claim that ever since the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa in 1959, China has pursued a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing to obliterate Tibetan culture - and India has done little to stop it. Tibetan monks holding American and Tibetan flags led the peaceful march through the streets of New Delhi. School children and women dressed in traditional costumes also participated in the procession. The Tibetans said they w...
1. Wide shot of Tibetan Youth congress protestors chanting anti-China slogans, waving Tibetan flags 2. Various of protestors burning Chinese flags, chanting pro-independence slogans 3. Cutaway of security standing at barricade 4. Wide shot of protestors holding Tibetan flags chanting, throwing pamphlets 5. Protestors climbing onto security barriers, pan to police forcibly taking away chanting protestor, pan to protestors gathering near security barrier 6. Police pushing away protestors as they try to break through security barrier 7. Mid shot of protestor jumping and chanting on barrier 8. Various of scuffle between police and protestors trying to break security cordon 9. Various of police pushing away women protestors 10. Cutaway of photographers 11. Various of women protestors ...
Self-immolations in Ganan and the Tibetan independence activists outside China
'The Tibet Within' is an independent Canadian documentary dedicated to the struggle for the preservation of the Tibetan culture and identity, in exile. www.thetibetwithin.com Version en français: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqwqrQAGbE&feature;=youtu.be In contrast with the Tibetans' efforts to preserve their culture, art, language and religion, the documentary also denounces the constant human rights abuses in Tibet and highlights the growing activist Tibet support movement. CREDITS Eva Cirnu: Director, Producer, Editor, Researcher, Camera, Translation, Original music Dominik Czartoryski: Producer, Sound, Original music Annie Fréchette: Production assistant, Researcher, Photographer Elias Varoutsos: Camera, Lighting Patricia Miotto: Camera Amchok Gompo: Soundtrack - 'Sounds of the ...
བོད་གྱི་རང་བཙན་འཐབ་རྩོད་པ་ཞིག་གི་ཁབ་གཙགས་བརྒྱུད་ནས་བོད་ཀྱི་བདེ་སྡུག་གླེང་བ། Tibetan Tattoo: Discussion of Tibetan Independence, Middle Way and Self Immolations. http://tibetantattoo.ink/ https://www.facebook.com/TamdingArts/?fref=ts
TNC Presents: The Case of a United Independent Tibet "Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Tibet's International Declaration of Tibetan Independence" A Lecture & Presentation by Jamyang Norbu. Opening remarks by Tendor Welcome by Jigme Ugen and Cheden Lhagyal New York: October 11, 2014 Video edited and filmed by: Tenzin Tsetan and Lobsang Choephel
Kunleng discuss nature of India's freedom struggle and relation with Tibet during British India and Nehru's new policy on Tibet after India gain its independence.
I was asked on Twitter today for this concert, which is available already on YouTube in full but like Metro 1993, there were a few things that bugged me about that upload; it was widescreen and had the overscan on the bottom, so I decided to upload it myself. Video quality is not too bad, and the audio quality is a little crackly in places but definitely listenable. So it should be enjoyable enough :). I've also added a bonus on the end, Thom's backing vocal performance for R.E.M.'s E-Bow The Letter. If you would like more information on the Tibetan independence movement, visit http://www.freetibet.org/ Track Listing --------- 00:35 Airbag 05:44 Talk Show Host 10:47 Karma Police 16:00 Fake Plastic Trees 21:00 Lucky (with Michael Stipe) 26:06 Paranoid Android 33:00 Creep 38:20 Street ...
Robert Barnett gives an overview of one of the most contentious issues in Asia: the conflict between the government of the People’s Republic of China and Tibetans who want either independence or a greater degree of autonomy for Tibet within China. He presents how each side understands this conflict, each with its divergent forms of diplomacy, interpretations of history, and religious perspectives. He helps to interpret the various voices in the discussion — those of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile, of the Chinese government, of self-immolators, and others — and gives his perspective on the prospects of resolution.
IN MEMORY OF JIGME NORBU Tibetans and supporters in New York City held a prayer session Tuesday to mourn and pay respects to late Jigme Norbu, nephew to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and son of late Taktser Rinpoche. The prayer was organized by the New York and New Jersey chapter of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest Tibetan NGO that seeks complete independence for Tibet. Jigme Norbu, like his late father, was a staunch supporter of complete independence for Tibet and had carried out several walks and rallies to garner support for Tibet and create awareness about Tibet's independence. Meanwhile, Tibetans in the greater Boston area also held a prayer session at the Kurukulla center Wednesday. Tibetans in Boston pray for the departed soul of Jigme Norbu An eerie silence was experi...
In 1979 the Dalai Lama responded positively to Deng Xiaoping’s message that other than the issue of Tibetan independence anything else could be discussed and resolved. Since the 1970s, the Dalai Lama taken the difficult but courageous position to find a solution for Tibet within PRC. This approach came to be known subsequently as the Middle Way approach. The approach embodies the deep concern for the survival of the Tibetan identity, culture, religion, and way of life. It represents the commitment to look to the future, instead of the past; to find a solution that will provide maximum autonomy for the Tibetans while bringing peace and stability to China and the region. This would give the Tibetans a genuine sense of having benefited by being part of PRC and the Chinese leadership has the...