[Buddha-l] Tibetan Exiles Meeting Over Strategy

[jkirk]

"Buddhist avatar"---a word that arrived with virtual reality
games and needs to disappear when referring to real reality.
Yikes & aaaaargh
Joanna 
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Tibetan Exiles Meet on Strategy

NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/world/asia/18tibet.html?_r=1&hp
&oref=slogin


(Excerpt)
Political moderation is the norm in this corner of the Tibetan
world. A steady flow of ethnic Han Chinese tourists has lifted
incomes in recent years. Farmers convert old homes into
guesthouses. Monasteries are erecting new buildings.

Perhaps nowhere is there a better example of the "middle way"
attitude promoted by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist avatar
who advocates a nonviolent movement for Tibetan autonomy within
China but not outright independence.

"Whatever he does, we do," said Tashi, a driver who keeps a
portrait of the Dalai Lama on his dashboard even though such
images are banned in China. "We don't want to make trouble."

But the calm here could soon crumble, depending on the outcome of
a six-day meeting of Tibetan exiles that began Monday in India.
The conclave is the first of its kind since 1991. The Dalai Lama
has called for hundreds of Tibetans to gather in the Himalayan
town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile,
to help decide on a new strategy for Tibet.
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Dan

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