Michael Peranti's book reading in San Francisco this evening on his latest, "The Assasination of Julius Ceaser", was a delectable fare. The fifty something-strong audience sat riveted through his hour-long discourse on the explosive days of ancient Rome
My dinner at Shambala started off with an appetizer of hot sheep’s blood soup followed by fried sheep lung and a zesty ox-tongue chaser. Just kidding, but these are the sorts of food one might expect to be served at local restaurants in Tibet.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today became the first Indian political party to visit Tibet when a three-member delegation was allowed in by the Chinese government to tour the sensitive remote Himalayan region.
The Sakya Trizin, an eminent Tibetan Buddhist master and head of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism, is visiting Washington, D.C. from July 29 to 30, 2003 to give a series of Buddhist teachings.
Tibet's decades-long struggle for liberty is famous around the world. Less well-known is the tale of how the Tibetan government in exile and large numbers of Tibetans abroad have worked to foster not only the freedom of the homeland from which they have been driven
Saying that it has not recognised Arunachal Pradesh as part of India, China today alleged that "Indian people" crossed the eastern sector of Line of Actual Control in the north-eastern state and not its forces as claimed by New Delhi.
The Pithorgarh administration said Indian traders can start to trade with China via the Lipu-Lekh pass. The Lipu-Lekh pass is situated at an altitude of 17,500 feet in the Pithorgarh district, on the border with Tibet.
