On 1 January 2006, a Year of Tibet was launched with a message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Woodford Festival, Queensland. The function was attended by about 5000 Australians from different States.
Web search leader Google Inc. said on Tuesday it was introducing a new service for China that seeks to avoid a confrontation with the government by restricting access to services to which users contribute such as e-mail
In one scene in his travel memoir Red Dust, Ma Jian - who has fled Beijing to escape arrest in the Campaign against Spiritual Pollution - describes dining with a doctor and his friends on an owl that they had stolen that afternoon from the dissection lab in the local hospital.
A Worldwide search has been launched to try to find the face of the Buddha. A film about the life and teachings of Siddharth Gautam, the historical founder of Buddhism, is planned
To mark the 47 years of Chinese occupation of Tibet, Dr Mahesh Yadav, President of Mahatma Gandhi Global Amity Council (MGAC), Bhopal started off "Save Tibet - Secure India"
Touted as a film about the life of Gendun Choephel, the movie is less a complete biography than an analysis of the monk's conflict with the norms of Tibetan Buddhism and society.
The most recent statistics available for the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) reveal that the proportion of the local population that cannot read or write increased by more than 10 percent, to 54.9 percent in 2003, from 43.8 percent in 2002.
Nepalese police today detained 41 Tibetans for illegal entry into the country, a police official said. The group was detained at the Thankot police checkpoint outside Kathmandu, after travelling from Bhairahawa, 282km southwest of the capital
