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Severe repression continues against Falun Gong practitioners, and the government has even purported to ban (seriously!) the reincarnation of "living Buddhas" in Tibet

Making Tibet an integral part of China, for instance, gives Beijing a lot more room to claim Indian territories and to try to settle the thorny border dispute with the help of Tibetan documents

With this tour … we have three main purposes: The first is to share our art and culture with people for universal peace and harmony. The second part is to raise awareness about the situation in Tibet

For a few brief months, local shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase a variety of handicrafts from Tibet and India, and their purchases will directly benefit an orphanage

A boom in car ownership has brought traffic jams to Tibet's once-tranquil capital and prompted it to open its first underground parking lot, state media reported Wednesday.

A five-day joint festival of Buddhists from Mongolia and Russian Republics of Kalmykia, Tuva and Buryatia kick started yesterday morning with an exotic art exhibition

Members of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of NY and NJ, Students for a Free Tibet and the U.S. Tibet Committee last week protested before the United Nations' headquarter against China’s introduction of Olympic Truce Resolution. Around 15 protesters chanted slogans, distributed flyers, and displayed banners reading “One World, One Dream: Free Tibet” and “Boycott Beijing 2008 Olympics” on New York’s crowded First Avenue on October 31 2007.

Robert Thurman, the president of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, presented a lecture on the importance of Tibet in Buddhist studies

During these visits, she also learned many Tibetans were becoming less fluent in their own language because they tended to speak more Chinese in day-to-day life.

The International Olympic Committee must press China to allow complete freedom for foreign media ahead of next year's Beijing Summer Olympic Games, a human right's group said yesterday.