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His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday met with the abbot of Nishi Ongangji, one of the most important Buddhist temples in Japan. It is said that there are about 10000 temples under Nishi Ongangji.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama had a day’s rest on 15 April. His Holiness granted audience to a group of Japanese priests, President of Goi Peace Foundation and a group of Korean Buddhists who have come all the way from Korea

On 13 April 2005, State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has released a White Paper entitled China's Progress in Human Rights in 2004.

The security breach at the Indian Institute of Science during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit is a signal to the Dalai Lama that Tibetan youths are against his "middle way approach" towards China.

"China-China, the world is watching you!" shouted a crowd of about one thousand students Friday afternoon outside the Chinese Consulate on West 42nd Street.

Nepal is relying on China's development plans in Tibet to develop its own mountainous northern districts. Kathmandu feels that the sluggish development of the 11 districts near its northern border with China will benefit from Beijing's drive to develop Tibet.

Disguised as a peasant, the Buddhist monk Geshe Lhundup Sopa escaped his homeland of Tibet in 1959, slipping away from the occupying Chinese over high mountain passes and, after 15 days, into India where he sought exile.

Hectic arrangements are going on in Sikkim to make the visit of his highness Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet a grand success, with barely a few days left for his arrival in Gangtok.

A first part of Tibet Festival, "Taste of the Tibetan Culture", concludes successfully in Santiago, the Capital of Chile, on April 12 with the presentation of the two well-attended workshops

With the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India touted as a prospective landmark development with a promise of a new impetus in the bilateral relations, Indian Government's curb on the political activities by the Tibetans