Blogging the Dalai Lama

Boing boing’s Xeni Jardin has posted a long article today that points to a number of current sources.
Rather than repeat them here, you should view her post.
Sources indicate that hundreds may be dead and a thousand or more detained or jailed.
The Dalai Lama has (again) indicated he will resign his post as head of the [...]

Though there are many sources of current information on the unrest in Tibet, these seem to be providing the best video and information:
BBC (use their search box to look up Tibet) <- This is the broadest coverage currently available. Also see specific BBC reports and videos below.
New York Times (use their search box to look [...]

Tackling Tibet
- by Thomas Laird

TIME magazine (in partnership with CNN, online)
“Since 2002, a little-known academic ritual has taken place each year at Harvard University. Academics of every stripe, from historians to constitutional lawyers, gather to discuss Tibet’s past, present and future. Uniquely, these intellectual debates have brought together Chinese and exiled Tibetan scholars. In the [...]

There’s no avoiding this week’s news – the (US) Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the Dalai Lama in Washington DC on Wednesday the 17th of October.
The event was webcast by ICT, and we hope that the entire video will eventually be available, but it isn’t yet. However, ICT has made available the Dalai Lama’s [...]