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The Dalai Lama will visit Dane County next year to bless a new temple at Deer Park Buddhist Center, where ground will be broken for the project on April 22.

March 25th to 27th, 2005 saw the first conference of Tibetan Communities of Australia and New Zealand. The gathering was organised by the Tibetan Community of Victoria

The Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche will visit New Delhi and Norgayling Tibetan settlement, Bhandara, Maharashtra. Kalon Tripa will address a conference organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi

Freedom House today released its annual list of the world's most repressive regimes at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Six are members of the UN body, charged with monitoring and condemning human rights violations.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has left this morning on an eleven day-visit to Japan beginning April 9. According to the Voice of Tibet radio service, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend the premiere of a film of His Holiness' life and Buddhism

The Austrian postal service had initially planned to issue a postage stamp with His Holiness as the motif to commemorate his 70th birthday.

Rejecting China's claim over certain parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said that the people of the country had nothing to fear as far as encroachments by neighbouring countries was concerned.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled ruler, will visit the Stanford University campus Nov. 4-5 to participate in a conference sponsored by the university's School of Medicine.

Whilst the People's Republic of China has now ratified some of the International Conventions, it has still to ratify one of the most significant international human rights instruments

Tibetans living in the border town of Dram between Nepal and Tibet were subjected to raids of their homes early this year.