Viewpoint
03.15.19

Is This the Last Dalai Lama?

Jessica Batke

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet. His departure exposed the rift between the Tibetan faithful and the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), one which has not closed in the six decades since—and which...

The NYRB China Archive
08.16.12

News from the Dalai Lama

Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

“I told President Obama the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party are missing a part of the brain, the part that contains common sense,” the Dalai Lama said to me during our conversation in London in mid-June.

But it can be

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The NYRB China Archive
06.12.97

Peking’s Choice

Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

The recent sentence to six years in prison of one of Tibet’s supreme monks shows Peking’s determination to dominate all events in the region and bring to an end a period of intense confusion within the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief time...