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Lhagyari Namgyal Wangchuk, descendant of Tibet’s 33rd King Songtsen Gampo, was today enthroned at a coronation ceremony in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

A renowned international Chinese writer Xinran Xue’s latest book Sky burial is an account based on a life of a Chinese woman who spent 34 years in Tibet and became a Tibetan.

“The Dalai Lama and his clique can no longer decide the destiny and future of Tibet.” This was the ominous warning issued by the government of the People’s Republic of China in a White Paper released during May this year.

A group of urban Tibetans scattered across the People's Republic of China (PRC) published on 22 June 2004 an open letter to the Chinese authorities urging them to prevent the famous Chinese athlete, Zhang Jian, from swimming across the holy Namtso lake on 31 July.

Returning from a week-long tour of China last week, Nepal's top military official announced that his Chinese interlocutors had promised military support to Kathmandu's on-going campaign against the armed insurgency

Two day Seminar on “Himalayan Security and Environment” was held in Gangtok (Sikkim) at the Community Hall, which was organized by the Core Group for Tibetan Cause and India Tibet Coordination Office, New Delhi from June 26-27, 2004.

Amidst diminishing hopes of a Free-Tibet in the backdrop of new-found bonhomie between India and China, pro-Tibet groups have raised fears of a possiblenuclear holocaust in South Asia in the wake of the increased deployment of nuclear weapons in Tibetanplateau by China.

Members of the Tibetan Community in Britain and Free Tibet Campaign staged a protest to oppose Beijing hosting the 2008 Games as the Olympic flame reached London.

Hemis Gompa is known as the Chang-Chub-Sam-Ling, the solitary place of the Compassionate One. His Holiness, the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukchen Rinpoche, Supreme Spiritual head of the Drupka Kargyud lineage

The spiritual head of the Kalmykia Buddhists, Telo Rinpoche, has expressed great regret at the attitude of a delegation from the Tibet Autonomous Region after they declined to enter the main Kalmyk monastery on June 22, 2004.