First Workshop on the Middle-Way Approach is Onset
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 2:33 p.m.
photo: Sangjey Kep |
Dharamshala: For the first-time the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) of the Central Tibetan Administration is organising a workshop on the Middle-Way Approach for Tibetan youths studying in the universities.
There are 33 students from Sarah, Norbulinkga, Chandigarh, Delhi, Baroda and Varanasi participating in this workshop.
According to Mr. Masood Butt who is coordinating the two-day workshop, this workshop is first of its kind. Our department, since 2005, has been visiting the Tibetan schools and settlements across India to raise greater awareness of the Middle-Way Approach of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to resolve the issue of Tibet.
This time we are giving a workshop to the students studying in Universities in Northern India. We have a plan to arrange such kind of workshop to the Tibetan university students in Southern India next year, Mr. Masood Butt said.
Mr. Masood Butt introducing the workshop to the participants. |
The workshop is divided into six sessions. The first session is an introduction to Middle-Way Approach, its evolution and main components and Mr. Lobsang Tsultrim Jeshong, Secretary, DIIR spoke on it.
Mr. Thubten Samphel, Information Secretary of the DIIR, will take the second period and he will speak on the Middle-Way Approach: A process of conflict resolution for the 21st century.
The speaker for the last period of the first day workshop is Mr. Sonam Norbu Dagpo, International Relations Secretary, DIIR. He will speak on the current status of Sino-Tibetan dialogue and Tibetan and Chinese positions on the issue of Tibet.
Tomorrow the participants will also hear about Middle-Way Approach in the context of Constitutional and Regional National Autonomy Law of the People’s Republic of China from Mr. Dawa Tsering, head of the Chinese desk at DIIR.
Since His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Middle-Way Approach for resolving is the issue of Tibet is based on non-violence, Mr. Karma Monlam from the Department of Education will speak on Non-violent movements.
In their last period, they will hear from Kalon Tsering Phuntsok, Kalon for the Department of Religion and Culture. He will speak on Kashag’s 11-point action plan, which is all about what we Tibetans could do for our common cause. This 11-point action plan is in this year’s 6 July (His Holinss’ birthday) statement of the Kashag.