Dalai Lama to open Canadian monastery

Secret is Out – Dalai Lama will open monastery in Canada
Ray Van Eng

It is being built in Richmond, British Columbia and is expected to open in July of 2010. A Tibet style Thrangu Monastery in Canada is being built at 8140 No. 5 Road, Richmond, B.C. It will be finished by July of this year. And the secret is out – according to two unidentified sources that told me, the Thrangu Monastery in Canada will be opened by the 14th Dalai Lama on July 25, 2010. As of May 1, 2010 the construction work is largely completed. Craftsmen and workers are busy putting final touches on the magnificent edifice. Cleaning crews are also diligently preparing the building to be occupied once it opens. More>>

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Tibetan Exile Anniversary

Young Tibetan Buddhist monks walk at a monastery in Ra'gyagoinba ("Lajiasi" in Chinese) in northwest China's Qinghai province, a vast region on the Tibetan plateau known as Amdo. China deployed massive security across the Tibetan plateau today on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule that forced the Dalai Lama into exile (AFP/Frederic J. Brown).

BEIJING (AFP) – China deployed massive security across the Tibetan plateau Tuesday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule that forced the Dalai Lama into exile.

• VIDEO: Security tight at Kumbum monastery on sensitive anniversary (AFP)
• VIDEO: China enforces security clampdown ahead of Tibet anniversary (CBC.ca)
• VIDEO: Tibetans' 50th uprising anniversary (AFP)

Residents of Tibet's capital, Lhasa, reported no protests Tuesday morning but -- as in other Tibetan areas of China -- it appeared to be partly because armed soldiers and police were patrolling the streets in a show of force.

Peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks in Lhasa on last year's anniversary erupted four days later into anti-Chinese rioting... More>>

• VIDEO: Dalai Lama says Chinese-ruled Tibet "hell on earth" (AFP)
• VIDEO: Dalai Lama marks anniversary of Tibet uprising (AP)
• VIDEO: Security tight at Kumbum monastery on sensitive anniversary (AFP)

Dalai Lama: "Hell on Earth"

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) – Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland in a speech Tuesday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising.

As Chinese authorities deployed a massive security force across the Tibetan plateau to prevent protests, he demanded "legitimate and meaningful autonomy" for the region in a speech at his exile base in northern India. More>>

Blasts rock Tibetan area as China ups security

Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary police patrol a street of Kangding, Ganzi prefecture of southwestern China's Sichuan province 3/9/09. China on Monday widened its security lockdown ahead of two sensitive anniversaries, issuing an emergency notice to seal off the volatile Tibetan Ganzi prefecture to all foreigners (AP/Ng Han Guan).

KANGDING, China -- Home-made bombs damaged police vehicles in a Tibetan part of western China on Monday, and authorities expanded a security cordon across the restive region ahead of the 50th anniversary of a failed revolt that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.

Armed police patrolled the streets outside Buddhist monasteries, which have been at the forefront of many protests. New checkpoints went up on previously open roads, the Internet and text messaging have been blocked, and the government ordered foreigners out of the mixed Chinese-Tibetan city of Kangding. More>>

VIDEO: Tibetans worried about life without Dalai Lama (AFP)

VIDEO: Dalai Lama leads prayer ceremony (AFP)

VIDEO: Tibetans' 50th uprising anniversary (AFP)