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		<title>Dalai Lama meets President Nicolas Sarkozy in Poland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama has met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy (BBC article), France currently also holds the EU presidency, in Poland. The usual protests were lodged by the Chinese government. Mr. Sarkozy was in Poland for a meeting with nine EU eastern member states on the bloc&#8217;s climate change plans.
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		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=89</link>
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		<title>More online sources regarding Tibet March 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boing boing&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Eruption of protest in Tibet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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) &#60;- This is the broadest coverage currently available. Also see specific BBC reports and videos below.
New York Times (use their search box to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=86</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I would like China to open its doors to the Dalai Lama&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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AP Photo from Davos


Elie Wiesel at the Davos economic summit 2008. Full article from CNN  &#8220;Davos elite leaves, fearing dark days&#8221;
Wiesel, drew loud applause at the closing debate by also calling for Beijing to ease restrictions in Tibet, a demand that appeared to embarrass China Mobile boss Wang Jianzhou, another of the co-chairs at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Tackling Tibet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tackling Tibet
- by Thomas Laird

TIME magazine (in partnership with CNN, online)
&#8220;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&#8217;s past, present and future. Uniquely, these intellectual debates have brought together Chinese and exiled Tibetan scholars. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Dalai Lama in Canada 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using a cool resource, we conducted a search to find video reports of His Holiness&#8217; travels. This great resource is a search site called Everyzing that searches for audio and video on the web. It presents a text transcript of each clip that it plays. We&#8217;ve used it to locate the videos (below) from Canadian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=81</link>
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		<title>It was a cool political reception in Japan</title>
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In a November 26th article, Fear of China Makes Japan Snub the Dalai Lama, Catherine Makino expresses the feeling that the Dalai Lama&#8217;s visit to Japan was undercovered and that the government gave him the &#8220;cold-shoulder&#8221; by not receiving him officially during the trip.
&#8220;Not one government official met one of the world&#8217;s best-known personalities either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=79</link>
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		<title>The Dalai Lama in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I always love coming to Japan.&#8221; On the 15th of November, His Holiness arrived in Japan. There were no visits scheduled with political figures. The visit was a ten-day visit with many events and talks scheduled.
There weren&#8217;t many reports on this visit, and BeliefNet (which is a good source of information) have about the longest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Professor Dalai Lama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, has appointed the Dalai Lama as a distinguished professor. And he has begun professing! But how to address him? &#8220;Professor Dalai Lama?&#8221; &#8220;Doctor Lama?&#8221; &#8211; well of course, he is still addressed as &#8220;Your Holiness.&#8221; But what does this professorship mean?
And I wonder if he&#8217;ll have a regular faculty web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=75</link>
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		<title>The Congressional Gold Medal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no avoiding this week&#8217;s news &#8211; 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&#8217;t yet. However, ICT has made available the Dalai Lama&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=69</link>
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		<title>A Hubbub Over a Visit by the Dalai Lama? Not in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In looking for information about His Holiness&#8217; recent visit to New York City, on his way to Washington DC to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, what did we find online? Well, practically nothing.
However, there was one article whose title pretty much expressed what we found. Namely, nothing.
A Hubbub Over a Visit by the Dalai Lama? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Austria &#8211; Waldzell 2007 &#8211; A Global Dialogue for Inspiration</title>
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Theme for Waldzell Meeting 2007


I was introduced to the Waldzell Institute by one of its founders, Dr. Andreas Salcher, this summer. Waldzell has held yearly dialogues at Melk Abbey in Austria, involving thought leaders from around the world. The meetings are small and invitation-only.
This year, the Dalai Lama was a featured guest.
There are photos, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Germany &#8211; meeting the Chancellor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama visited Germany and Austria in September, and was received by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Here are the press reports:





The Dalai Lama and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
(Pool photo by Markus Schreiber)



Despite censure from Beijing, Merkel meets with Dalai Lama in Berlin, International Herald Tribune Europe &#8211; &#8220;BERLIN: Defying Chinese criticism and pressure, Chancellor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Lisbon photos and mp3 files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can download photos from the three days of teachings in Lisbon in September. They promise to have an mp3 CD of the teachings available for sale, and free audio from his public talk. The photos are worth the visit to the site!
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		<link>http://bloggingthedalailama.org/?p=76</link>
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