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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.

The office of the Dalai Lama said Friday that an animal rights group misrepresented the nature of a request by the spiritual leader that fast-food chain KFC not open an outlet in his homeland, Tibet.

On 4th July His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be attending at the Pabellon Olimpic de Badalona for the celebration of His 69th Birthday Anniversary at 4:30 pm.

An eight - member delegation from Tibet Autonomous Region headed by Jampa Phuntsok is currently on a visit to Kalmyk Republic. Accompanied by Liu Guchang, Ambassador of People's Republic of China to Moscow, and four other embassy staff

A group of 10 Tibetans and supporters peacefully protested today when the olympic torch came to Lausanne. They shouted slogans and displayed a banner saying "Athens YES – Beijing NO! Free Tibet".

KFC has dropped previously announced plans to place restaurants in Tibet, but the decision was unrelated to a letter from the Dalai Lama saying the "corporation's support for cruelty and mass slaughter violate Tibetan value."

Buddhist citizens of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia are dismayed that this year also they will not be able to receive teaching from their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Jampa Phuntsok (Ch: Qiangba Puncog), Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, is heading an eight-member delegation on a five day visit to the Kalmyk Republic in the Russian Federation. The delegation arrived in Elista on June 21 and is scheduled to depart on June 25, 2004.