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Santa Barbara- Outraged members of the organization Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) at UC Santa Barbara will participate in a worldwide week of action to highlight the plight of imprisoned Tibetan spritual and community leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.

Despite forecasts that China is on the doorstep to its 18th "warm" winter, meteorologists cite Tibet Autonomous Region as the one exception.

India and China today agreed not to allow the vexed boundary problem to slow down the momentum in their bilateral relations and work out a "realistic" solution based on "ground realities".

The Dalai Lama held a ceremony to consecrate the Kalmyk Khurul temple near Elista, Kalmykia, on Tuesday, an Interfax correspondent reported.

As an outcome of divinations conducted by lamas in reliance upon deities, the Kashag will hold an official prayer offering at the sacred site of Bodhgaya on 25 January 2005 (the fifteenth day of the twelveth Tibetan lunar month) to mark the holy wood monkey year.

Hundreds of Buddhists in southern Russia marched through snow to see and hear the Dalai Lama as he continued a long-awaited visit to the country in spite of Chinese protests.

Around 100 Tibetans and supporters participated in a sit-in and candle light vigil in Downtown Berkeley on November 27 to highlight the Beijing-sentenced death execution Tenzin Delek Rinpoche is facing today.

The increasing anxiety of Tibetans regarding the impending execution of their religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek, manifested into a novel and creative method of protest on late Sunday evening.

President of the International Buddhist Federation (IBF), Dr Lam, today appealed to the King, the government and the Maoist rebels to observe a weeklong cease-fire during the 2nd World Buddhist Summit slated for Nov 30 to Dec 2 in Lumbini, Lord Buddha's birthplace.

The Dalai Lama arrived in Elista, the capital of the Russian internal republic of Kalmykia, on Monday. Dalai Lama XIV did not plan any meetings on his first day in Russia. His two-day trip will include a service in a local Buddhist temple and its consecration.