The English-language monthly Tibetan Review has expressed misgivings about Chinese intentions in the current Sino-Tibetan contact saying China may be using it to merely blunt international criticism.
A Rochester church promotes peace and unity through an ancient art. It is called Mandala painting. Tibetan monks use colored sand funneled through a metal tube to create an image.
Prayer flags are hung for missing relatives at the site of a landslide in Danba county in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province. More than 50 people are missing and one person is confirmed dead after a massive mudslide was dislodged by flash floods.
The silence of the lama has proved short-lived -- Bhutanese spiritual leader-turned film director Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, who won international acclaim in 2000 with his movie "The Cup", is ready to captivate audiences again with another dose of his Himalayan magic.
A group of 16 Indian pilgrims crossed the Lipu Lekh Pass from India into Tibet reaching Purang (Taklakot) on July 16, 2003 on their way to Mt. Kailash, according to the organizers of the tour.
Nine Tibetans who fled their homeland for political freedom were arrested in eastern Nepal for illegally entering the country, officials said on Wednesday.
With China mulling to construct a huge hydropower dam to tame river Brahmaputra that originates in Tibet, the water flow to India and Bangladesh is set to be affected. China's official Xinhua news agency today reported from Lhasa
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