Danny Fisher points us to Wildmind’s excellent Tibet turmoil round-up. This is a great summary of what’s going on.

Buddhist Jihad returns from hiatus to give us some Tibet links.

Students for a Free Tibet give us this map of the demonstration locations (leaving out Beijing, New York, etc.) The map comes from China Digital by way of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Lower your blood pressure, and your stress. Even the NIH is in on it.

China defends its role in the Tibet crisis. There were even demonstrations in Beijing. And of course, China blocked YouTube.

49 people reported killed in fighting in Sri Lanka over the weekend. This is a vicious, tremendously violent conflict: the government claims it’s killed 2,152 rebels since the start of 2008.

And Thailand:

A bomb and a drive-by shooting in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south killed two people and wounded six, mostly children playing near their homes, police said Monday.

The bomb — hidden in a parked motorcycle — exploded in front of a house under construction in Yala, one of three southern provinces where a Muslim insurgency has flared since 2004, said police Lt. Sarawut Mahachai.

One 6-year-old boy and two 7-year-old girls were severely wounded, Sarawut said, adding that the children were all Muslim.

Two other children and a soldier patrolling the area were slightly wounded by the bomb, triggered by a mobile phone, he said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack and the motive was unclear, but authorities said they suspected Muslim insurgents.

It’s a bit ironic to look back on this BusinessWeek article from January — while soldiers kill monks in Tibet, Buddhism is actually booming in China.

Our friend Sharon Salzberg sent us an email with the following:

Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the situation in Tibet

Chicago, IL, March 14– “I am deeply disturbed by reports of a crackdown and arrests ordered by Chinese authorities in the wake of peaceful protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks. I condemn the use of violence to put down peaceful protests, and call on the Chinese government to respect the basic human rights of the people of Tibet, and to account for the whereabouts of detained Buddhist monks.

These events come on the 49th anniversary of the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama. They demonstrate the continuing frustration of the Tibetan people at the way in which Beijing has ruled Tibet. There has been an informal dialogue between Chinese leaders and the Dalai Lama’s representatives over the past six years. It is good that they have been talking, but China has thus far shown no flexibility on the substance of those discussions. Indeed, it has delayed in scheduling the latest round, despite the willingness of the Tibetans to continue dialogue.

If Tibetans are to live in harmony with the rest of China’s people, their religion and culture must be respected and protected. Tibet should enjoy genuine and meaningful autonomy. The Dalai Lama should be invited to visit China, as part of a process leading to his return.

This is the year of the Beijing Olympics. It represents an opportunity for China to show the world what it has accomplished in the last several decades. Those accomplishments have been extraordinary and China’s people have a right to be proud of them, but the events in Tibet these last few days unfortunately show a different face of China. Now is the time for Beijing to take steps that would change the image people have of China later this year by changing the reality of how they treat Tibet and Tibetans. Now is the time to respect the human rights and religious freedom of the people of Tibet.”

Tibet’s biggest protests in almost 20 years continue. They are outside Lhasa and outside Tibet, and they are all over the world. Western leaders continue to timorously timidly judiciously urge restraint, while the IOC urges “appeasement.”

Check out the Go Tibet! page at the Worst Horse. You will of course remember the Worst Horse’s Burma is Important project, to which this is closely akin.

The wise and whimsical Konchog of Dreaming of Danzan Ravjaa has a great post on China’s outrages in Tibet and elsewhere, plus links to Olympic boycott sites and more. (Eighty killed, says the BBC.)

It is now five years and a day since the death of peace activist Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting the home of a Palestinian family.

Bhikkhu’s Blog has an interesting post from last week about the Deepak Chopra Buddha book.