BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland
Sunday reiterated its "resolute opposition" against the Dalai Lama's visit to
Taiwan.
"The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has ulterior
motives to instigate the Dalai Lama, who has long been engaged in separatist
activities, to visit Taiwan," said a spokesman for the State Council Taiwan
Affairs Office.
"We resolutely oppose this and our position is firm
and clear," the spokesman said.
"The Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan is bound to have a
negative influence on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan," the
spokesman said.
"We will keep a close eye on the situation," the
spokesman said.
Taiwan political organizations protest
DPP invitation to Dalai Lama
TAIPEI, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- More than 10 Taiwanese
political organizations Saturday denounced the Democratic Progressive Party's
(DPP's) invitation to the Dalai Lama to visit the island as "unethical" and
"politically motivated."
They also expressed doubts if the visit would benefit
ongoing disaster relief in the wake of Typhoon Morakot and voiced their worries
the visit would damage relations between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Full story
Mainland's religious head in Taiwan on
typhoon relief mission, saying proposed Dalai Lama visit a "political
move"
TAIPEI, Aug. 28
(Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's religious head arrived in Taiwan Friday noon
to participate in Buddhist ritual prayer for typhoon victims, saying the
proposed Dalai Lama visit to the island was "politically motivated."
Ye Xiaowen, head of the China Religious Culture
Communication Association, was taking up an invitation from Venerable Wei Chueh
of Taiwan's Chung Tai Chan Monastery. Full story
Mainland "resolutely opposes" proposed
Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland said
Thursday it "resolutely opposes" the proposed visit of the Dalai Lama to Taiwan
"in whatever form and capacity."
"The Dalai Lama is not a pure religious figure," said a
spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office. Full story
Is Dalai Lama's "gov't-in-exile"
secular?
BEIJING, Aug. 19 -- Samdhong Rinpoche's recent remarks
that the "Tibetan government-in-exile" is a secular one are ridiculous and fully
expose the Dalai Lama clique's attempt to conceal its nature as a
politico-religious one.
To avert possible censures, the chief Buddha of the
so-called "government-in-exile," defended his stance in an interview with
Deutsche Welle, a German international broadcaster on Aug. 12, by arguing that
his "government" is independent of religious intervention in its process of
administration despite it being a combined spiritual and political rule. Full story
Article exposes ill intention of Dalai
Lama's sabotage of ethnic relations
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A signed article Tuesday
accused the Dalai Lama of using ungrounded and self-contradictory argument to
comment on and damage the relations between the Han and Tibetan people.
The article's author, Zhang Yun, an expert with the China
Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, said the Dalai Lama used his "adept
presentation skill and fluent English" to make speeches worldwide, but many of
his words relating to the Tibet issue was self-contradictory. Full story
Dalai Lama's "democratic leadership"
ridiculous
LHASA, July 5 (Xinhua) -- The Dalai Lama's recent call for
Tibetans to "embrace the democratic system of electing a leader" is totally
ridiculous, a living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism said Sunday.
"It is totally against the tradition and convention of the
Tibetan Buddhism, where the incarnation of the Dalai Lama should be decided
according to a set of fixed procedures," Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak, a living Buddha
of the Kagyu sect, told a group of visiting reporters in Lhasa, capital of Tibet
autonomous region. Full story
