Exile Tibetan artists perform a srpecial song to mark the 85th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama whose portrait is seen behind at an official function in Dharamsala...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar greets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama before his departure from the Jai Prakash Narayan Airport, Patna.
Tibetan Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets students of IIM (Indian Institue of Management) during his visit, in Bodh Gaya.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama being greeted by his followers during the concluding day of his teaching session at Kalachakra Ground in Bodhgaya.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the third day of his teaching session at Kalachakra Ground in Bodhgaya.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the second day of his teaching session at Kalachakra Ground in Bodhgaya.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the second day of his teaching session at Kalachkara Ground in Bodhgaya.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the opening ceremony of a teaching session at Kalachkara Ground in Bodh Gaya
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees at the opening ceremony of a teaching session at Kalachkara Ground in Bodh Gaya
Spiritual leader Dalai Lama meets buddhist devotees on New Year 2020, in Bodh Gaya
Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama interacts with the media during his visit to the world heritage Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya.
The Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra event, Ladakh, 1975.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama wears a ceremonial yellow hat of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism at the Kirti Monastery in Dharmsala. The Tibetan leader presided over ...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is attended to by monks as he sits on his ceremonial chair during the last day of a three-day religious conference in Dharmsala. Representat...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives to attend the last day of a three-day religious conference in Dharamsala. Representatives of Tibetan Buddhist schools and the ancien...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the 24th S Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture on Universal Ethics organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, in New Delhi.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees as he arrives to give a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala. The three-day talk organised at the request o...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, leans against a railing as he listens to Tibetan-government-in-exile President Lobsang Sangay from a balcony at the Tibetan Institute of Pe...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a programme at Ramanreti Karshni Ashram near Mathura
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a visit to Ramanreti Karshni Ashram near Mathura
Writing in the Hindustan Times, an alarmed Prem Shankar Jha says that given the Chinese sensitivities vis-a-vis India, "the immediate need is to persuade the Dalai Lama to postpone his visit to Tawang":
The resulting confrontation has now acquired a life of its own and is leading the two countries towards a war that neither wants. The calibrated escalation of China’s demands and actions suggests that the point of no return will be the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tawang in November. Wen Jiabao’s request for a meeting with Manmohan Singh in Bangkok should, therefore, be seen as a last ditch effort to avert war...
Fortunately for India, reversing the escalation does not require making humiliating concessions. All that New Delhi needs to do is clear up the misapprehensions that have taken root in the Chinese leaders’ minds.
Read the full piece at the HT: It's a Dim Sum Game
Such suggestions seem to be of a piece with the recent “strategic reassurance” given by Barack obama to China by his refusal to meet the Dalai Lama during the latter's visit to Washington. While Obama may have been bestowed with a Nobel Peace Prize soon thereafter, Maureen Dowd in a recent column quoted Vaclav Havel to put it in perspective: “It is only a minor compromise. But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems.” Gabbar Singh had put it pithily in Sholay, "jo Dar gayaa samjho mar gayaa".
