The Dalai Lama told Kouchner the only way China can "regain its respectability in the international community" was the "march towards democracy," his French interpreter, Buddhist monk Matthieu Rica...
The Dalai Lama told Kouchner the only way China can "regain its respectability in the international community" was the "march towards democracy," his French interpreter, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, said after the meeting.
The Dalai Lama presented the pair with long white scarves, a Tibetan gesture of hospitality and respect, which they wore around their necks as they watched their host prostrate himself before a statue of the Buddha.
The spiritual leader made a speech in English after officially opening the temple in which he called for harmony between different religious traditions and for respect for the environment.
"We have the responsibility to take care of this planet," he said. "We must extend love to all creatures, trees and beautiful things."
French human rights minister Rama Yade and former prime minister Alain Juppe were also at the event which was attended by about 2,000 people.
President Nicolas Sarkozy declined to meet the Dalai Lama, sparking accusations from the opposition Socialists that "the only guiding principle (of Sarkozy's policy towards China) appears to be not to displease Beijing."
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama said Friday that Carla Bruni-Sarkozy had passed on the president's "greetings" when she met with him at the temple.
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The Chinese government views propaganda as a key weapon in its efforts to undermine the movement for Tibetan rights and statehood. Chinese state run media - whose use of manufactured and manipulated history is indisputable - regularly debases and assails Tibetan culture and specifically the Dalai Lama, who is dismissed with regularity - and relish. The Tibetan refugee population is treated with equal disdain,
hes just being used as a tool to split china, the westerns dont even respect him, hes just a puppet. sad man, his greed is causing chinese brothers and sisters suffer.
as a non chinese, I can assure you that these antichina videos make the chinese people heroes in the eyes of all the nonchinese, because it demonstrates the extent of hatred and aggressive behavior of the westcentric people like you, their abnormal, agitated, schizophrenic mentality. good luck in the future! ...and thank you china!
Sarkozy is pretty stupid,siding with dalai n mess with china gains no political n economical advantages for france,with the resession going on like this today in the west,china couldnt care less about france,meanwhile he is also having problems with germanly's angela merkel,british gordon brown,last but not the least russia's medvedev and putin,he is making france more n more isolated in the international community LOL he is no better than helen of troy fro france
i dont know guys but siding with dalai lama is not really suicide thing it's about giving someone the right to speak....i am a filipino im not french or tibetan.
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...and thank you china!
Dispatches Undercover in Tibet (48 mins, on google video)