UK Channel 4 News asks if this is a "Tibet Spring"?
The conditions of the two monks were not known after the simultaneous immolations Friday in Maerkang, London-based Free Tibet said. The exiled monks in Dharmsala, India, said one protester died, and police took him and the other monk to a government hospital to prevent them from becoming a focus of larger demonstrations.
The monks, identified as Tenpa Darjey and Chimey Palden, came from a monastery 50 miles (80 km) away. When fellow monastics learned of the immolations, they set out for the city only to be blocked by police about halfway there, said the exiles, Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering. More
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