The Melbourne Tibetan Community of Australia celebrated 68th Birthday of His Holiness The Dalai Lama with the Australia Tibet Council and Tibet Welfare Group on Sunday July 6 at the Petrie Community Hall of Montmorency.
Taking a positive view of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's recent visit to China, the Tibetan government-in-exile has said the joint statement issued during the visit should be accepted as an effort towards peace in Asia which will also lead to peace in Tibet.
The 68th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that falls today was celebrated here in London yesterday with colourful Tibetan traditional songs and dances that won appreciative applause from the audience who filled the Westminster Cathedral Hall and its balcony.
Far from the madding crowd that followed Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani everywhere on Sunday, a small group of 50 to 60 people, many of them Buddhist monks, gathered at the Chitrakoot Art Gallery a little before noon to celebrate the birthday of the Dalai Lama.
Tibetan journalists Saturday requested the Chinese ambassador in New Delhi, Hua Jundua, to give them permission to go to Tibet and cover the situation in the Himalayan region.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Saturday said a step-by-step progress would be made in resolving the Tibetan issue. "Even after more than 50 years, the resolve and moral strength of Tibetans have been kept intact.
The 69th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was celebrated at Siddharth Vihar in Itanagar on Sunday with traditional gaiety and festivity. The day-long programme started with unfurling of a "prayer flag", mass prayer and lighting of
Established in January and inaugurated in April, the quasi-official Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation is the secondary agency to deal with Tibetan business in addition to the Cabinet's Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission.
