My comment:
(a) 洛桑 Lobsang
(b) I can not find the video clip.
(2) Barbara Demick, In China, Self-Immolations Add Radical Bent to Tibetan Protests; Nine suicides by young Buddhists in Sichuan province have unnerved the Chinese government and given momentum to the Tibetan movement. Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 2011 http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... hina-tibet-20111023,0,840542.story
Quote:
"The ritual suicides, he [Dibyesh Anand, a Tibet expert at the University of Westminster in London] added, are a sign that young Tibetans are moving away from the Dalai Lama's teachings about nonviolence. 'He has always said that people should not harm themselves or others,' Anand said. 'People respect him, but they are frustrated and they want to protest.'
"Among Tibetan Buddhists, self-immolation had been unheard of before 2009 and until this year was very rare.