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Mexico's government will greet the Dalai Lama as a religious leader - not as a politician - a top official said Tuesday. The Dalai Lama begins his five day visit to Mexico on October 3rd.

Buddhist nun Ani Kalsang Palmo marched down State Road A1A on Monday carrying a sign that read "Honk for Tibet." Almost 16 years ago, she staged a similar protest in her native Lhasa, where she said she was promptly sent to a Chinese prison to be severely beaten and tortured for several months.

Some 3,600 Buddhist practitioners sat through two days of intensive teaching at the University of Miami's Convocation Center as His Holiness the Dalai Lama interpreted the text of what is arguably described as the most rarely offered instruction of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Working on corporate social responsibility issues in Tibet involves all the issues that come into play in China, and then some, says John Ackerly.

While the Dalai Lama speaks around South Florida, a handful of free-Tibet activists also are bringing their message to the area, one block at a time.

The latest report on maternal mortality in Tibet documents the high maternal death rate is due to inadequate healthcare and sometimes harmful superstitions. The report's authors plan to join efforts to protect women's health in the isolated region.

Two young Tibetans went about in the streets of Mcleod Ganj with microphones in their hands and blared announcements for four hours, stopping at significant knees and elbows of the hill station.

With his trademark self-deprecating charm and wit, the Dalai Lama's two-hour talk on world peace delighted an audience here Sunday.

Thousands of listeners rose, cheered and clapped wildly as the Dalai Lama not only called for peace, but declared war obsolete. "My interests in the future, my economic prosperity, depend very much on others, including my enemy -- and theirs depends on me,"

Dressed in a flowing blue dress, classically trained Mongolian electric violinist Degi took the stage Saturday at the International Mongolian Festival.