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The glorious isolation of Tibet is set to diminish further with the first train expected to chug its way to the top of the world in 2006. Work on the 1000-km Qinghai-Lhasa railway line is going on at a feverish pitch and the track has already reached the Tibet plateau at Arduo in the Nagu prefecture.

Look as hard as you like in Lhasa, but you won't find a photo or even a remote likeness of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's most important leader. Instead, in the heart of the holy city, in the ‘parikrama’ of the Jokhang monastery called the Barkhor, there are posters of Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai

Beijing emphatically rejects the idea of a special deal with Tibet, on the lines of the “One country, Two systems” compromise that Beijing has undertaken with Hong Kong and Macao.

These days, His Holiness The Dalai Lama is giving teachings in Dharamsala and unlike last year, due to his poor health, he can't teach for a long time. He teaches only for two and a half-hour in the mornings from 9 to 11.30am.

The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) today called upon the Government of Canada to actively promote the commencement of substantive negotiations between representatives of the Dalai Lama and China to a visiting delegation of officials from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

A new "Re-education-through-Labour" (Ch:laojiao) camp has been established in Senge Township, Ngari County, Tibet Autonomous Region ("TAR"). The camp which will accommodate about two hundred inmates became functional in July 2004 when the construction work was completed.

No other land has been transformed so completely as that of Tibet, particularly after the Dalai Lama went into exile in 1959. Renowned but forbidden places like the Potala Palace and the Norbulingka summer palace have been opened to the public.

The Houston community will get a rare glimpse of relics of the Buddha and many of his revered disciples in a display open next weekend at Jade Buddha Temple.

The official Chinese media's ignorance of Tibetan culture never ceases to surprise us. The Xinhuanet today reported that a forthcoming session of Buddhist theological exams in Lhasa will be presided over by a panel of "16 buddhas"

After having spoken to reporters, misquotations, misrepresentations and misinterpretations are what everyone doesn’t want to see but fails. In 2001, protests and demonstrations against His Holiness the Dalai Lama were seen after a newspaper report misquoted the Tibetan leader who was speaking in Chennai.