China is giving a dramatic facelift to the Potala Palace, former home of the exiled Dalai Lama, as part of Beijing's efforts to protect the most lucrative and culturally sensitive symbols of the restive region.
The Chinese national flag is hoisted with the famed Potala Palace as background on Tuesday Aug. 26, 2003 in Barkhor in Lhasa, Tibet, far west of China. The Potala Palace was once the center of the Tibetan government and winter residence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey organized the semi final and the final matches of Pawo Thupten Ngodup Basketball tournament on August 24th. There were sixteen teams but only 14 played as two withdrew from the tournament.
Yesterday was a memorable day for the Friuli-Venice Giulia Buddhist community when Sakya Trizin, the highest authority in the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism, arrived in Trieste.
If the exiled Dalai Lama is permitted to return to Tibet it is highly unlikely he would be allowed to live in his traditional home, the 1,300-year-old Potala Palace, officials said Tuesday.
Look one direction over the rock and mud walls of Tibet’s oldest building, and the gold and olive-coloured barley fields look like mats padding the Yarlung Valley, the cradle of Tibetan civilisation.
China revealed for the first time Tuesday that the Dalai Lama was invited to return to Tibet in 1989 to attend the funeral of an important Tibetan Lama, but he turned down the opportunity.
The president of Kalmykia Republic in the Russian Federation, Kirsan Nikolayevich llyumzhinov, is on a two day visit to Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Basang has never laid eyes on a train — unless you count the ones he's seen in movies or on the old television shows that feed his curiosity about the world beyond the Tibetan plateau.
