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'Guiding Star' - As night fell on the 12th day of the relay hunger strike, the members of the Mcleod Ganj Shop Association are seen huddled up with prayers on their lips for the release and well being of Tulku Tenzin Delek. The ongoing hunger strike campaign has received immense support and sympathy from the local Indian residents as well as foreign nationals, not just in the form signatures but an increasing number has volunteered to sit on the hunger strike.

The history teacher maintained a blistering pace, clicking from one frame quickly to the next, during a lecture on China's relations with the world from 1929 to 1939 in one of this country's most selective high schools.

As many as 15 Indian-born Tibetan students from Delhi University are on a all India Moto rally to mobilise support and funds demanding release of Tibetan religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek from Chinese prison.

The Tibetans living in exile in Dharamsala had a special screening of a film depicting various efforts taken worldover for the release of Tibetan monk Tulku Tenzin Delek facing suspended execution on charges of terrorism.

It can't have been a pretty moment when Victor Chan phoned his wife on Bowen Island in B.C. and said, sorry, "I'm not coming home for a while. I'm going to France with the Dalai Lama."

Wearing blue nylon safety harnesses, students scramble up the Tibet Guide School's climbing rock, moving quickly and smoothly from one handhold to the next on the six-story concrete slab.

As part of Bay Area's month-long action campaign for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's release, Tibetans and supporters staged their second protest outside the Chinese consulate today.

Wheels have been an important mode of transport for human beings from time immemorial to move from one place to another in search of food. But wheels playing a role in the Tibetan freedom struggle would be a distant guess.

When Greek writer and poet Antipater of Sidon drew up a list of the Seven Wonders of the World around 140 BC, he couldn't have imagined his list would outlast six of the seven wonders on it.

Tibetans and supporters gathered around the Chinese Mission in New York on December 2nd 2004, with candles, posters of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and Tibetan National Flag around their bodies.