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If words are food for thought, Dharamsala has had the Assembly of Tibetan's People's Deputies for breakfast, lunch and dinner half this September as the video footage

A recent interview with Nyima Tsering, the painter of the late tenth Panchen Lama, provides background information about the life of a contemporary artist who integrated Tibetan, Chinese and Western traditions.

The Dalai Lama on Monday told more than 1,000 people at the National Cathedral he doesn't believe differences between fundamentalist Islam and the religions of the West are the cause of war and modern violence.

The Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Leïla Zerrougui, issued a statement today.

A team of United Nations experts said on Monday that China was lagging in bringing human rights laws into line with international agreements and suggested this left the door open for continued abuse of dissenters.

Three Tibetans are among those who died in the twin explosions in Dimapur, Nagaland. Talking over the phone to Voice of Tibet radio service, Samdup, head of the Tibetan business community of Dimapur

Deformed birds and other animals born with birth defects in remote corners of Tibet are evidence China is dumping nuclear waste there, the Dalai Lama said Sunday.

"Kundun", the film depicting the early life of Dalai Lama, which kicked of a controversy after it was withdrawn from Asian Film Festival in Mumbai in August this year, will now be screened at Tibetan Film Festival

Seventh Art Releasing has acquired François Prévost and Hugo Latulippe's "What Remains of Us." The doc is the story of a young Tibetan refugee who carries a videotaped message from the Dalai Lama to the Tibetan people, allowing her to reconnect with her family.

Just before the first Gulf War, while traveling in Nepal, I bought a cheap prayer wheel. Shortly afterward, I suffered gut rot at 14,000 feet and chanted the wheel's mantra to inspire each foot ahead of the other: "Om mani padme hum," I said and I thought.