After starting off the new Tibetan Water Sheep Year 2130 in customary prayer and meditation Monday, the Dalai Lama quickly switched to glad rags and swayed to the music of India's leading rock band, Parikrama.
Tibetan leader Dalai Lama greets people at Mcleod Ganj, 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 3, 2003. The three-day celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year begins Monday at Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Dr. Nancy Harris may be one of the few Bay Area residents who suffers from culture shock as result of her commute. Last week Harris, who lives half the year in Moss Beach, returned from Lhasa, Tibet, where she's been working as a physician in local communities since 1990.
Young Buddhist girls perform a ritual dance inside a Buddhist shrine in front of their religious leader Dalai Lama at Mcleod Ganj, 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 3, 2003. The three-day celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year begins Monday at Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives.
Photo by Rafiq Maqbool
On 28th February morning, a team of ten monks from Gyuto monastery based in Tenzingang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, arrived in Paris. Upon their arrival, Mr Bartabas, head of the Zingaro Theater, ARTE TV team and Wangpo Bashi, Secretary of the Bureau du Tibet, welcomed the monks.
Tony Blair faced the anger of human rights activists last night for secretly planning a trade mission to China. He has claimed the moral case for going to war with Iraq is to stop Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses.
Bharat Jagaran Yatra organised by TYC (Tibetan Youth Congress) and BTSM (Bharat Tibat Sayog Muanch) is flagged off from Dharamsala by Shree. Rakesh Bharati , Additional advocate general of H.P at Mcleod Ganj on 1st March, 2003.
The Dalai Lama of Tibet will return to Bloomington on Sept. 7 and 8 to dedicate a new interfaith temple at the Tibetan Cultural Center south of the city.
