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First election after Tibetan Policy and Support Act 2020 passed in the US Congress
S Gopal Puri
Dharamsala, HP
Following sharp reactions from China, Tibetans living in exile across the globe have voted on January 3 to elect their new political representative who will head Central Tibetan Administration (the global headquarters of Tibetans situated in India).
Counting of the votes is underway as votes have been casted in different parts of the world. Well-placed sources told The Indian EYE that till Wednesday Penpa Tsering was leading with 15,138 votes. Tsering had served two terms as Speaker for the Tibetan parliament in exile.
There are total eight candidates in these elections to elect new political head for the Tibetans. Dolma Gyari was on the second number after Tsering with 9,612 votes. Gyari had served Tibetan cabinet as home minister. Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang (Kaydor), who has been special advisor to Sikyong Lobsang Sangay and the Dalai Lama’s representative to North America, was on third with 9,576 votes.
Elections are being conducted by Tibetan election commission in various countries of the world where Tibetan communities are there. Local election commissioners have been appointed to conduct the ballot voting and send the details to Dharamshala, Indi
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Master Uy, a Buddhist monk in El Monte, California, escaped Communist Vietnam in 1990. He is one of the so-called, “Boat People,” a group of some 2 million refugees who fled Vietnam from the time of the fall of Saigon in 1976 until the mid-1990s. Approximately 800,000 of those refugees settled in the United States, some 65,000 in Houston.
During their treacherous journey, many found comfort and solace calling on Quan Âm, a Buddhist bodhisattva— an enlightened individual who continues to aide humanity — revered throughout Asia as ‘Guanyin,’ (or by other names) who is believed to be a compassionate mother to all who call on her for help in time of need.
Every year in the spring, over 10,000 Vietnamese Buddhist monks, laity and practitioners make the pilgrimage to southwest Houston’s Vietnamese Buddhist Center (VBC) to celebrate the annual Quan Âm Festival at the feet of what is claimed to be the largest Quan Âm statue in the Western Hemisphere. It is this festival that acts as the pinnacle point of the Vietnamese Buddhist calendar in the United States, a moment when they not only celebrate their Buddhist heritage, but their identification as Vietnamese and American.
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