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Physicians mumbled inaudible words into each other’s ears and exchanged reports as they warmly smiled to a relaxed Ven. Palden Gyatso who along with his compatriots were into their seventh day without food and nourishment.

Tibetan refugees in Nepal yesterday launched a campaign against the use of endangered animal skins. Tibetans discarded their clothes made from animal skins and pledged to never use them

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, had a visit to Bethlehem canceled at the request of the Palestinian Authority, which is unwilling to antagonize China, organizers said on Monday.

In an unforeseen 'last' interview, Thupten Ngodup, one of the volunteers listed to sit in the Tibetan Youth Congress led 'Hunger Strike Unto Death' at Delhi in 1998 when asked whether he was afraid of death

Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger called on Sunday for the establishment of "a religious United Nations" representing the religious leaders of all the countries in the world.

Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yonah Metzger, meeting with the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk who is the leader of Tibet, suggested that representatives of the world's religions establish a United Nations in Jerusalem

All Pema Chagzoetsang wanted to do was promote a little friendship.But nothing is easy where Tibet and China are concerned.Chagzoetsang, an American citizen originally from the city of Lhasa, Tibet

In what is most daring display of loyalty and support to the recent call by the Dalai Lama to ban using tiger and leopard skins in Tibet, Tibetans in Amdo region in eastern Tibet are making bon fires out of their animal skin clothes.

I got myself into hot water again the other day. We were at a meeting at Harvard - about 10 Tibetans, four Chinese scholars and a few of us pale skins, arranged by the redoubtable lawyer Lobsang Sangay and his colleague,

The Dalai Lama on Friday said "a little pressure'' might be necessary to get the Islamic Hamas group to change its ways, but suggested Israel and the international community establish unofficial contacts with