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The Dalai Lama received a rousing welcome in Leh on Wednesday, with hundreds of Buddhist monks and locals lining up the streets upon his arrival at the town.

The exiled Tibetan monk will be in Sun Valley from September 11th to September 15th for a series of public and private events.

In the cobbled paths and ancient courtyards of Tibet's Tashilhunpo monastery, a little boy stares out of pictures wearing a yellow, cone-shaped hat that mark his sect of Buddhism.

"Large insects are eating and secretly injuring small insects," wrote the 13th Dalai Lama to the British Trade Agent in Tibet in 1910. He was on his way to exile in India, chased by Chinese invading troops.

To win over the support of those seeking complete independence of Tibet and not approving of the Dalai Lama's "middle-path" approach, the Central Tibetan Administration of the government-in-exile has now launched

They lost again and this time it was a big loss: 47 - 0. I am talking about my school's all-girl basketball team and as expected everyone blamed those girls for not playing well, especially me.

It's evening in Shigatse and the lights are coming on. In the Chinese district of the Tibetan mountain town, strings of fairy lights flicker around rows of shopfronts where women perch waiting for customers and men stumble out from backroom corridors.

I knew Palden Gyatso was a man of divine purpose when the 78-year-old Buddhist monk postponed digging into Dakpa Gyaltsen's specially prepared feast to talk about freeing Tibet.

Eight years ago, Sabriye Tenberken, a German woman rode horseback across Tibetan countryside to find blind children to attend her new school.

On September 21, 2005, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, will be the keynote presenter at a symposium held in Houston, TX.