THE POTOMAC CONFERENCE, October 5 - 6, 1992
SINO-TIBETAN RELATIONS:  PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE

October 5, Afternoon Session II.

CULTURAL, ETHNIC & CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
  Tibetan Culture and Modernization
  The Chinese Tradition of "Great Unification" and
     the Tibetan Issue
  The Ethics of Religion

Robert A. F. Thurman, Moderator

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ROBERT A. F. THURMAN

If you'll be seated, we'll start.  I'm Bob Thurman, and I'm in a very 
low-key mode today, and I've only made two short comments and I'm not 
going to abuse the privilege of moderator by saying many things.  And 
we're going to move expeditiously to the questions.

Beforehand, I would like to say one thing, though:  that in the interest 
of the dialogue we would like to see as many of the Chinese participants 
saying things in the questions as possible.  It may be a certain shyness 
that some of you may feel because of having, of feeling that you should 
speak the questions in English, but it's all right.  If you come to the 
microphone, your question or your comment or your statement will be 
translated into English for everyone.  So please make a special effort 
and I'll give you priority in the line to raise your hand and get up and 
say something.  If this is going to be a dialogue, it must be a dialogue.  
So I want to just encourage you to please give your views.

Thubten Samphel
Chen Kuide
Jamyang Norbu
Xue Haipei
Discussion:  Yuan, Aukatsang, Tang, Zhao, Pandit, et al.