About 1,000 anti-war protesters demonstrated outside the West Los Angeles Federal Building on Thursday, briefly clashing with police, burning an American flag and forcing the closure of one of the city's busiest intersections at rush hour. At least 14 were arrested.
Top: Climbers Jimmy Chin, Rick Ridgeway, and Conrad Anker haul a custom-built aluminum rickshah through a narrow gorge on China's remote Chang Tang Plateau. The expedition team used rickshahs to transport 30-day supplies of provisions during their month-long trek; Bottom: A newborn chiru calf. Conservationists hope to sway the Chinese government to expand nature preserves to protect the key Tibetan antelope calving ground. (Photographs copyright Galen Rowell, National Geographic Society)
Four mountaineers traversing the high steppes of northern Tibet have succeeded in their quest to locate the key calving ground of the chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope imperiled by poaching.
Commercial poachers have devastated chiru
By making the most of the ongoing religious teachings which has attracted a large number of people to this Himalayan town. ‘Gyal Shyen Lhaen zom’ (Forum for discussing current Tibetan issues) is organizing a parallel program, but on a different subject.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama believes that unless people change their attitude and realise the ultimate futility of war and the use of force in solving our problems, it is difficult to expect the world to be peaceful and free of violence.
Despite China's five-decade occupation of Tibet, the centuries-old spiritual and cultural traditions of the country sometimes referred to as the Rooftop of World have managed to endure to the present day.
Driving past Hedgerow Farm or seeing the snowcapped Rockies reminds Tamding Wangdu of the pastoral lifestyle he left behind a decade ago this May when he became part of a resettlement that brought more than 20 Tibetans to Boulder.
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Thursday called for prayers for peace in Iraq. "The war has started but we cannot do anything. We can only pray," the Lama said while giving a public teaching here.
Session in progress on the second day: Members of 13th Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies have arrived in Dharamsala to attend the fifth Parliamentary session. The session will go on till 31st March.
