India should return Tawang to China

OK, this confuses me, but I'm not a super genius or even a mapmaker for that matter. China wants a Buddhist town back from India that is important to Tibetan Buddhists. As expected, they don't want to hand it over to China. HHuuummmm well how about this, if China gave Tibet back to the Tibetans, they could leave India and be able to go home. Yeah, I don't see that happening either.......

Zee News, Nov 15, 2006

Beijing, China -- Amid the heat generated by the latest Chinese claim of sovereignty over entire Arunachal Pradesh, prominent scholars here have backed Beijing's claim over Tawang, a strategic Buddhist town nestled in the Himalayas.

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Speaking at the first-ever seminar on the 1962 India-China war and the boundary issue, held ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's maiden state visit to India from November 20, prominent Chinese scholars on South Asia voiced their firm support for Beijing's stand that India should return Tawang to China as part of the final settlement.

"India entered into Tawang, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama, in 1951. For Tibetan Buddhism Tawang is important," the Deputy Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Sun Shihai said.

"In the negotiations for the settlement of the boundary issue, both countries should be sensitive to the national sentiments of each side," sun said.

Sun, who presided over the seminar, told here that Chinese scholars were of the view that both India and China should be willing to make 'adjustments' in the eastern and Western sectors of the disputed boundary for the final settlement of the border dispute.

"The McMohan Line, drawn by British is illegal. Successive Chinese governments have not accepted it. There is no question of the current socialist government accepting it as well. But we can discuss and make adjustments," he said.

Buddhism can help end suffering, Jet Li says

The Record, Sept 23, 2006

San Francisco, USA -- Jet Li is famous for his fists and kicks, but he'd like his compassion to be a hit, too.

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Li, who noted that a quarter of a million people committed suicide in China in 2003, said he hopes that he and his latest film, Jet Li's Fearless, can help make a difference.

"I would like to spend more of my energy practising Buddhism and helping younger Chinese people to understand life,'' he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "When people commit suicide, they cause 10 people to suffer. So this is causing millions and millions of people to suffer.''

"The Buddhism idea is to look back, to look into yourself. It's a feeling,'' he said. "The feeling is different from the material. You need to make yourself happy from inside your heart.''