Ladakhi girls weave carpets inside a workshop in Leh, in the north of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir October 2, 2003. A thaw in relations between India and China, the world's two most populous countries, has raised hopes in Ladakh, also known as little Tibet, of an end to its isolation from its nearest neighbor. Picture taken October 2, 2003. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE INDIA-CHINA REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Europe has called on the EU to raise Tibet prominently during the sixth EU/China Summit in Beijing, which begins October 31.
In an unprecedented move, Mr. Dawa Gyaltsen, a former teacher of TCV School, lodged a civil suit at Shimla High Court against Mr. Jadur Sangpo, the Chief Justice commissioner of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission.
The Dalai Lama arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a visit that is likely to irritate China, which views Tibet's exiled spiritual leader as a "dangerous separatist."
After 50 years of a repressive foreign occupation in Tibet and worldwide Diaspora of Tibetan refugees, there are a growing number of Tibetan artists exploring new forms of expressing the truth of their being.
Sonam Stobdan, a 79-year-old farmer, wistfully remembers a time when Muslim traders from the Chinese town of Yarkand would arrive on horses and camels laden with carpets, shoes and jewellery.
Chinese geologists have discovered silicified wood fossils of the Cretaceous period in areas near Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Mediation techniques can help cure depression. Buddhist psychology offers more than a method of investigation. Its core techniques of meditation and awareness may have much to offer ordinary Westerners, whose material comforts have not wiped out rampant emotional distress.
