Losar Delek!
This is the greeting Tibetans give at the time of Losar or Tibetan New Year. Sadly, this year Tibetan New Year has been marred by a spate of immolations by monks, nuns and lay people resulting in an intense crack-down by Chinese authorities and the subsequent deaths of Tibetan protestors.
I have just read an article by Bhaskar Roy from the Eurasia Review website on Chinese policy in Tibet. It is sobering but worth reading.
If you are contemplating travel to beautiful Tibet, be mindful of what is really going on there for Tibetans in their own country.
Here is a link to the article:
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