Many people are not aware that it is possible for the human body to survive for years on only three pills a day. Dr. Barry Clark, an expert on the ancient Tibetan medical system, presented his lecture "Rejuvenation Methods and Essence-Extraction Techniques in the Tibetan Tradition"
Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he would go to any lengths to settle the issue of Tibet, including going to China for talks with Beijing, which took control of the Himalayan region in 1951.(AFP/file/Justin Sullivan)
The Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies (Tibetan Parliament in Exile) in a press statement issued today expressed "deep sense of disappointment and regret" with the Russian decision to deny a visa to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The most beautiful women of Tibet will soon descend on Himalayan town of Dharamsala which is hosting the second Miss Tibet beauty pageant starting October 8. Miss Tibet would be crowned on October 12, after a five-day glittering ceremony
China on Thursday denied charges that it was dramatically altering Tibet's demographic pattern by encouraging immigration of other ethnic Chinese groups into the Himalayan region.
Asia is the most dangerous place in the world. With Americans dying daily in Iraq; the Bush road map for Israel and Palestine in tatters; and the ghostly visage of Osama bin Laden broadcast to the world by al-Jazeera on the second anniversary of Sept. 11
Foreign affairs is never entirely offstage in this city — so multicultural, so multilingual, so multinational, indeed so multi-everything, and that includes tasking and tsking. But we seem to be in for an unusually heavy dose of world issues this week.
Tibet's exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, was lionized in the United States but denied a visa to meet Buddhists in Russia. Those different responses reflect China's dilemma on whether to deal or not to deal with the charismatic leader.
Your headline, as well as the report on the interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Laurie Goodstein (Dalai Lama Says Terror May Need a Violent Reply, September 18, 2003), gives the misleading impression that His Holiness is endorsing violence as a way to confront terrorism.
A day after the 9/11 horrific terrorist attacks, the Dalai Lama had urged President George Bush to ponder whether a violent response was the “the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and people in the long run.”
