Dalai Lama: Time Cover Story
Filed Under Tibet, Human Rights | Posted on March 22, 2008
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is on the cover of the current edition of Time magazine. You can read the story, “A Monk’s Struggle” by Pico Iyer online.
As the world prepares for the Olympic Games in Beijing this August—and as Tibetans (and those in other occupied areas across China, like Xinjiang) inevitably use the world’s attention to broadcast their suffering—a farmer’s son born in a stone-and-mud house in a 20-home village in one of the world’s least materially developed countries has, rather remarkably, become one of the leading spokesmen for a new global vision in which we look past divisions of nation, race and religion and try to address our shared problems at the source.
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