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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.

Tibetan refugees arrived in this town which bore the brunt of last week's killer tsunamis to counsel and treat displaced villagers, saying they "owed" it to India.

The blue tent accommodating the TYC organised ‘Two Months Relay Hunger Strike’ under the banner of ‘All India Relay Hunger Strike for the release of Tulku Tenzin Delek’ has now primed into an unlikely centerpiece of the busy hill town of Mcleod Ganj.

In December 2004, a meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in anticipation of the upcoming entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.