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SELF-immolation; TIBET (China) politics & government, 1951-; TENZIN Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-; TIBETAN Buddhism; TSERING Tashi; CHINESE politics & government, 1949-; SOCIAL history

The article discusses the self-immolations in Tibet in protest of Chinese rule of the region, in light of the self-immolation of farmer Tsering Tashi in Amchok, Tibet on January 12, 2013. Topics include the Buddhist principles of nonviolence in relation to self-immolation, China's methods of governance based on autonomous regions instead of assimilation according to sociologist James Leibold, and the perspective of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, on self-immolations.