བོད་ཀྱི་བང་ཆེན་སྤྱིའི་འདོན་ཐེངས་ ༣༦༧ ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༢/༡/༥
སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས་ནི་བོད་མི་རིགས་ལ་ཤ་ཐུམ་པགས་ཐུམ་དུ་སོང་བའི་རིག་གནས་ཤིག་ཡིན་ནའང། སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་ནས་བཤད་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག་ཁག་ལ་ཤེས་རྟོགས་ཇི་བཞིན་མེད་མཁན་མང་བ་དང་།

Friction between Chinese authorities and the five million Tibetans who live within the borders of China is on the rise, and nowhere is the strife more apparent than in the neighboring nation of Nepal. Last month in Kathmandu, I spoke with five young Tibetans who had just journeyed across the Himalayas to escape draconian policies imposed by the Beijing government in their homeland. More than six hundred Tibetans have fled to Nepal this year, even though it’s a dangerous undertaking. Asylum seekers have lost limbs to frostbite, perished in blizzards, and been arrested by Chinese border patrols. Some have been shot. The youngest of the refugees I met was a fourteen-year-old girl. She was aware of the hazards but lit out for the border anyway, hoping that if she made it into Nepal she’d find safe passage to India, where in 1959 the Dalai Lama established the Tibetan government-in-exile, and where more than a hundred thousand Tibetan refugees presently reside.