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His Holiness the 14th Dali Lama will visit Florida International University on September 22, 2004 to give a lecture titled Compassion – The Source of Happiness. The FIU lecture will be on the last day of his four-day visit to South Florida.

Even longtime Billings residents know little about Billings’ small Buddhist community. A sprawling, late Victorian home at Lewis Avenue and Third Street West, meeting place of the Billings Dharma Center, looks like very other house in the neighborhood.

In his first visit to this country, Tsewang Dorjee, a Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Drepung Gomang monastery, has been to 40 states over the past year.

China's longest river, the Yangtze, has become the world's most endangered river because of heavy damming, with native species including a rare breed of dolphin headed for extinction, the environmental pressure group WWF said yesterday.

When one think of monks the immediate visualization comes is of someone leading a secluded life away from the worldly strife. But the monks of Namgyal monastery in McLeodganj, Dharamshala may change this perception.

In an interesting development, the Chinese authorities announced on June 21, 2004 that they had established an organization, Association for the Protection and Development of Tibetan Culture.

Thirty Tibetans are being given tips on diplomacy, leadership and conflict resolution at Gangchen Kyishong, the secretariat of the Central Tibetan Administration.

In what is being seen as a major policy statement, a top leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile here has urged China to treat Tibet like Hong Kong or Macau.

Below is a statement by the European Commission expressing its concern regarding the situation of human rights in Tibet and also extending its support to the ongoing dialogue between Dharamsala and Beijing.

Flag-waving crowds turned out to cheer the Olympic flame as it made its way through the city Sunday to celebrate the 2004 Games in Athens.