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How approaches from different Buddhist traditions can complement and support each other on the path to awakening The post Liberation Through Non-Clinging Across Buddhist Traditions appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis...

Direct flights were suspended in 2020 due to pandemic-induced restrictions and border clash in Ladakh that strained ties between the two countries for nearly five years.      

Aware of the Chinese threat, the new Japanese government may revamp an old history of friendship with the Uyghurs. The post Prime Minister Takaichi and the Fight Against the East Turkestan Genocide: A Uyghur View first appeared on Bitter...

Taiwan Retrocession Day is observed on Oct. 25 every year. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government removed it from the list of annual holidays immediately following the first successful tran...

A new photo opportunity with the CCP for the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who failed to confront the regime on the Uyghurs’ cultural genocide. The post Michelle Bachelet at the Court of Communist China first appeared...

The election of Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) as chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) marked a triumphant return of pride in the “Chinese” in the party name. Cheng wants Taiwanese to be proud to call themselves Chinese again.

In China’s autonomous region of Tibet, during one of the region’s New Year celebrations, a tradition places the fate of households in the paws of their most loyal resident, the family dog. The unusual ritual known as “Inviting the...

Holding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last week, a manically self-congratulatory US President Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe savior, hailed his fellow “tough guys” — tame tyrants...

Few Tibetans believe the respected abbott died “of natural causes.” The United Nations does not believe it either. The post Humkar Dorje Rinpoche: UN Demands Truth Behind Suspicious Death of Tibetan Lama in Vietnam first appeared on Bitter Winter.

They criticized the Chinese regime's human rights abuses and pushed for tougher U.S. responses.

Beijing has realised that reckless America First policies are alienating old and new friends alike, creating a vacuum it can fillHolding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh last week, a manically self-congratulatory Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe saviour, hailed...

Denial of passports to Tibetans is not simply an inconvenience but a calculated tool of political control, cultural erasure and religious suppression. By restricting mobility, the Chinese state vio...

From Interrailing around Europe to trekking in the Himalayas, our tipsters share their memorable trips made later in life• Tell us about a great winter mountain holiday – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherI went Interrailing at...

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

New facilities near Golmud in Qinghai Province suggest an expansion of the PLARF's long-range conventional and nuclear strike capabilities, with major implications for India, Taiwan, and the U.S. 

The decision on whether to approve the ‘super embassy’ has been pushed back to December

Kanchha Sherpa part of expedition that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary atop world’s highest peak in 1953Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, has died at the age of...

A reflection and practice on generating loving-kindness and compassion when dealing with difficult people The post You Can Only Do What You Can Do appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

A famous Chinese artist and his sponsor will be held liable for damaging 300,000 square metres of ecologically sensitive Himalayan grassland in a fireworks display, authorities said on Wednesday. Several officials in Tibet, including the county party secretary, were...

Fireworks affected about 30 hectares of grassland, leaving behind plastic debris and firework remnants that were ‘not thoroughly cleaned’

Videos of fireworks resembling a "rising dragon" erupting over Himalayan foothills had drawn backlash.