December 31, 2012
Published by Elliot Sperling at December 31, 2012
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Abstract The lives of Pho-lha-nas and Khang-chen-nas are well known, most importantly from Luciano Petech’s seminal study of early 18th-century Tibet. Since the publication of that […]
December 31, 2012
Published by Elliot Sperling at December 31, 2012
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Anachronistic elements abound in different aspects of the present-day Tibet issue and perhaps nowhere is this more strikingly obvious than with regard to the question of […]
January 9, 2012
Published by Elliot Sperling at January 9, 2012
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In the last item I posted on the Rangzen Alliance site I referred to a recent piece by Woeser. Having drawn on her comments for that […]
January 8, 2012
Published by Elliot Sperling at January 8, 2012
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A few days ago Radio Free Asia posted an article on the question of whether there is a growing understanding of Tibet and sympathy for Tibetans […]
January 8, 2012
Published by Elliot Sperling at January 8, 2012
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Last week I posted an article over at Tibetan Political Review about the Global Buddhist Congregation that was held in New Delhi at the end of […]
November 1, 2011
Published by Elliot Sperling at November 1, 2011
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On October 19, a few days after Jamyang Norbu went online at “Shadow Tibet” with an essay entitled “Igniting the Embers of Rangzen,” I posted some […]
July 18, 2011
Published by Elliot Sperling at July 18, 2011
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I have received several requests over the last few weeks to post the article I wrote for the July issue of Jane’s Intelligence Review on the recent changes […]
April 2, 2011
Published by Elliot Sperling at April 2, 2011
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A few people have now asked me to repost the English version of my introduction to the Chinese translation of Authenticating Tibet here, since it’s also […]
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