A second visit by delegates of the exiled Dalai Lama to China within months underscores a stunning shift after contacts spent a decade in a deep freeze. Even more revealing was the list of holy places they did not visit.
The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply saddened to hear about the passing away of Lha Gyari Trichen Namgyal Gyatso, whose life embodies the spirit of dedication and commitment to the Tibetan Administration.
The EU Presidency expressed concern over the issue created after the deportation of 18 Tibetans from Nepal, pointing out to the Kathmandu government that this action is opposed to the UN charter on human rights.
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama may visit China if relations between Tibet and the Beijing government improve, his special envoy Lodi Gyari, said on Friday.
China today ruled out any concessions to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama but hoped that the just-concluded visit to the country by his envoys would help him make the "correct choice" on the vexed Tibet issue.
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, was given a warm welcome Thursday as he arrived in Indian Kashmir's Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region, officials said.
Echoing the need to keep politics separate from religion as that doctrined by the Constitution, the Legislature recently abolished a six-decade-old law empowering the government to regulate Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan.
The Dalai Lama wants greater contact between his envoys and Chinese authorities to boost relations following the success of recent meetings, the exiled spiritual leader's representative said on Wednesday.
Both Nepal and China have issued strongly-worded statements in defence of their actions regarding the deportation of 18 Tibetans back to Tibet from Kathmandu on Saturday (31 May). The statements may have been provoked by the condemnations
