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Buddhist monks from around the world will congregate at Amaravati, the cradle of Mahayana school of thought, for the 'Kalachakra'from January five to 16, coinciding with the 2,550th anniversary of Lord Buddha.

The US-based Freedom House has announced that Tibet is among the two "worst-rated territories" for the 2004-2005 period, in terms of respect for political rights and civil liberties.

The Siliguri-based Northeast Zonal Tibetan Youth Congress(TYC) has alleged that due to the religious repression of the Chinese Government many Tibetan monks are either committing suicide or fleeing from the country.

Chinese authorities in a Tibetan region of Gansu province have arrested a number of monks and nuns for putting up a poster calling on Beijing to start a dialogue with their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

One house was brought down to ashes by a fire that broke out around midnight yesterday in one of the oldest residential areas of Mcleod Ganj. The house was

Tibetans have known for over 16 years that Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao is no wimp. And now, so do most Chinese. As several instances of violence against anti-government protesters during the past year demonstrate

China is raising the profile of a teenage boy it selected as the 11th Panchen Lama, allowing him to perform a ceremony attended by thousands of worshippers, state media reports revealed.

Declining to comment on the media reports about threats to the life of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, the secretary of the exile government's Department of Security Ngodup Dongchung has told phayul that threats from

Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM) today began its month long environmental leadership and awareness program to make the 30th Kalachakra at Amaravati a 'nature-friendly spiritual

The Latvian Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet sent a letter to support the democratic process in China and to express their concern for the crackdown on the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa on 16 December.