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Thousands of UC Santa Barbara students are getting copies of the Dalai Lama's book "Ethics for the New Millennium" before his April visit to the university

A court in Hangzhou, a prosperous city in eastern Zhejiang province, sentenced Wang Rongqing on Wednesday on charges of subverting state power for organizing the banned China Democracy Party,

Internationally recognised Indonesia-based interfaith spiritualist and author Anand Krishna offered the statue to the Dalai Lama as a token of restrengthening the spiritual and cultural ties between the peoples of Indonesia and Tibet

According to an unconfirmed information received by phayul, Chinese security forces arrested a Tibetan woman named Kunchok Dolma, 31, from Kudor (spelling unconfirmed)village in Kardze on December 29

According a report by Taipei Times, Tibetans illegally residing in Taiwan may soon be granted Alien Resident Certificates (ARC) after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative caucuses yesterday

His Holiness the Dalai Lama begins Buddhist teachings in Sarnath in Varanasi, Thursday, January 8, 2009. The revered Tibetan spiritual is giving a five-day long teachings on “Kamalashila's "The Middling Stages of Meditation" (gomrim barpa) and Shantideva's “A Guide To the Bodhisattva's Way of Life” (chodjug). More than 20,000 Buddhist followers from around the world, including a sizeable number of Chinese, Taiwanese, Mongolians, Koreans, Russian, and Southeast Asians, are attending the teachings being held at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. Besides presideing over a dialogue between Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical schools while in Varanasi, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to attend the opening session of an “International Conference on Buddhism and Science” on January 16, before finally leaving the city. (Photo: Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL)

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced that it will felicitate Hollywood actor and long time Tibet supporter Richard Gere with the second Joel Siegel Award at VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards

His Holiness today arrived in Sarnath,Varanasi, where he is scheduled to give teachings from tomorrow on “Kamalashila's The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa) and Shantideva's A Guide To the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (chodjug)”.

The Tibetan Youth Congress released a book today to counter Chinese allegations that described the largest Tibetan Non Governmental Organization as a terrorist group. At a press conference

China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp