Sentences with phrase «immolation by»

CNN: Prothero: Dalai Lama should condemn immolations Stephen Prothero tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that the Dalai Lama should condemn immolation by Tibetans.

(CNN)-- Stephen Prothero tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that the Dalai Lama should condemn immolation by Tibetans.

Reuters: Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self - immolations Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Japanese parliamentarians to visit Tibet, and for China to investigate the dozens of self - immolations by Tibetans.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

Not exact matches

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person self - immolating (unlike e.g. self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.

But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self - immolation simultaneously aroused.

Together they perfectly captured the feminine art of vocal self - immolation, and they were destined to burn out in their own distinct ways, one by what she gave and the other by what she withheld.

And if not their self - respect, then their self - interest, because any hopes of re-election will be squashed between the threat of deselection and the charge of guilt - by - association, as soon as the Conservatives have had enough of watching Labour's self - immolation and step up their own campaign.

In fact, she suggested the exact opposite — that Grisanti's self - immolation was caused by multiple factors.

Her hold on the establishment has only been strengthened by the self - immolation of Anthony Weiner, who was in a strong position to contend in 2013 and who was popular among real - estate types because, in Tighe's words, «He seemed like one of the guys.

The picture is about the noxious half - life and death of grief, its ending as suggestive of rebirth as it is of self - immolation — marking the belief that the process is one best defined by ambiguity.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

These include paintings by Tenzing Rigdol that metaphorically depict the horrific self - immolations (now over 140) occurring in Tibet; Fadi Yazigi, who continues to reside in Damascus, Syria, making art despite the raging war all around him; and Rasheed Araeen, a Pakistani, London - based artist who highlights Afro - Asian, postcolonial racial oppression.

Rigdol's enormous «My World is in your Blind - spot,» made of five panels six - by - six - feet each, references the more than 100 self - immolations inside Tibet, as well as what Rigdol has called the «degradation» of the Tibetan language.