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We were passing through a small town and looking to take a break. We found a place for a game of pool. The big Tibetan sky was a mesmerizing blue. The wind blew strongly. These were important facts to understand because the pool table was outside.

After denying the Dalai Lama's visa requests for years, Russia has finally relented and allowed the Buddhist spiritual leader to visit the country. He will spend most of his time in the southern republic of Kalmykia, half of whose 300,000 residents are practicing Buddhists.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Asia-Pacific region Director Mrs Janeth Lim is currently on a visit to Nepal. She has visited the Bhutanese refugee camps in western Nepal and on 1st December she paid a visit to the Tibetan reception centre in Nepal.

Tibetans and supporters will hold a 12 hour demonstration from 9am-9pm in front of the Chinese Consulate on Wednesday, Dec 1st to raise awareness and save the life of the influential Buddhist leader, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.

Individual Tibetans filed complaint against the Chinese Embassy, the owner of the website www.china-embassy.ch, and the Chinese Tourist Office in Zürich in the past days. The complaint is lodged with the district attorney of Zurich.

The cost of building the high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet railway has blown out with China forced to pump another 5.5 billion yuan (660 million dollars) into the project.

Beijing cannot understand why Moscow allowed the Dalai Lama to visit Russia, a Chinese government spokeswoman said on Tuesday, and accused Tibet's spiritual leader of attempting to split China, the Reuters news agency reports.

Mr President, On December 2nd, the suspension of the death sentence of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's, a well-known and much respected Tibetan Buddhist lama in his region, will come to an end and he could then be executed at any moment by the Chinese authorities.

Amid security concerns during the 2nd World Buddhist Summit in Lumbini, Rupandehi district, the CPN (Maoist) Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire in the district for three days.

The 2nd World Buddhist Summit kicked off amid much fanfare in Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, on Tuesday. Over 120 delegates of 28 countries including VVIPs from eight countries including India, China, Bhutan, Myanmar, Cambodia and Egypt have already arrived