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Dalai Lama appeals for support at end of private visit to Italy

"Tibetans have a very resistant spirit, but ultimately they begin to get irritated," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader told regional lawmakers in northern Turin, according to

Tourists invade Tibet

Tibet’s Buddhist culture, often besieged in the past half-century of Chinese rule by religious restrictions and communist political movements, is facing a new threat: mass tourism

UN Human Rights Chief Says Tibet Will Get More Attention

On 10 December afternoon, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that in the context of 2008 Beijing Olympics, the case of Tibet will attract more attention.

The battle over the new Dalai Lama

One thing is sure, it is not for you or me or the Karats or Hu Jintaos to decide; it is too profound a tradition to be left in the hands of the profane. The Tibetan leader's recent declaration raises some important questions

FILM FESTIVAL: Bettini, Dalai Lama in next edition

"I have asked the Dalai Lama to organise with us a day dedicated to the people of Tibet" the national coordinator of the Democratic Party explained. "Films and documentaries will be shown which tell the true story

Int’l Olympic Committee Silent on Chinese Rights Abuses

The International Olympic Committee ended its last executive board meeting for the year without mentioning growing calls for the movement to address human rights in China

YEARENDER: ‘People’s Buddhism’ rises under communist watch in China

Married monks, headless Buddha statues, and historic temples occupied by state work units still testify to the darkest years for religion in late-20th-century China. Yet despite the jailing of

Tibetans hope Swiss law can reverse ban

Exiled Tibetan athletes banned from the Olympics vowed last night not to give up their fight to compete next year in Beijing. IOC will be taken to court, say exiles.

Pupils turn English teachers for Tibetan peers

This is the latest incarnation of a long-term link between Prudhoe High School and the Tibet Foundation School in Mussoorie, reports the Hexham Courant. Pupils at two schools in Prudhoe have made

Dy Speaker to Attend Freedom of the City Award Function in Italy

Dolma Gyari, the deputy of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, will attend an award ceremony for conferring the "Freedom of the City" of Turin to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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