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Chinese authorities have arrested a Tibetan monk and tightened security in a traditionally Tibetan part of Sichuan Province after a fire they suspect was the work of separatists opposed to Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

True to the dictum, "Crisis sort the friend or foe", When Tibet reeled under the worst period of its history following the Chinese occupation, India provided support and sanctuary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and thousands of his followers.

A small Canadian Buddhist congregation has sold one of its temples to raise money for Asian tsunami victims.

China is planning to build a world-class observatory on the "roof of the world" -- in the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region, the state media reported today.

The Dalai Lama will deliver a lecture on war, peace and reconciliation at Rutgers University this fall in his first public appearance before a mass audience in New Jersey, school officials said yesterday.

The Western Route Transfer Project, or simply "the Western Route," is the most expensive and difficult route of the worlds longest and most ambitious water transfer project - South-North Water Diversion Project.

Up on a grassy platter of ground midway between Taos and the Colorado border, more than 100 shaggy head of yak stand in a bunch, warm under their wool in a hard morning wind.

There is so much anger and discord in the world today that many people have sought refuge in religion to seek inner happiness. In this respect, many Westerners have turned to Buddhism to achieve greater happiness.

In an exclusive interview with Delhi Times, spiritual leader Robert Thurman talks about his famous daughter Uma & the essence of happiness.

When Baimadanzen was growing up in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution, his Buddhist father sometimes played records of monks chanting.