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The presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s representative at the inauguration of Taiwanese President Chen Shui Bian’s second presidential term will not hinder relations between Beijing and Dharamsala, said Mr. Tashi Wangdi

China announced Wednesday it has developed a sign language for the deaf and mute in Tibet -- a country it occupied more than 50 years ago. Officials said it is the first sign language system for a minority in China

Tibet: Shangri-La, the Land of Snows, home to mountain ranges of myth and legend and a people stripped of their culture. The inaccessible peaks and the mysteries of the monasteries have long fascinated westerners fated to live out their lives at a lower level.

Buddhism teaches that Buddha is in everything, but not, it seems, on the crotch of a bikini model. When the American lingerie company Victoria's Secret launched their Buddha Bikini this summer, which featured images of Buddha around the breasts and crotch

Acadiana residents interested in Tibetan culture and the Buddhist philosophy may soon have a resource close to home. Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche, abbot of the Mardo Tashi Chöling Monastery in Amdo, Tibet

It is a hot and dusty afternoon, and tempers are frayed at the Foreigners Booking Office in New Delhi railway station. My travelling companion, British actress Joanna Lumley, and I have left our passports in the hotel

Human rights groups are warning that a controversial documentary on Tibet could lead to the imprisonment and torture of people who were secretly filmed watching an illegal recording of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Since last Thursday, these Tibetan Buddhist monks from Nepal have been working on what they hope will be the world's largest sand Mandala of the Medicine Buddhas.

A prominent Tibetan political party has elected its new president in Dharamsala, the seat of Tibetan's parliament-in-exile. In the fourth annual convention, National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT) chose Karma Chopel, founder member of the party.

Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche left Dharamshala yesterday for Delhi, France and England. Rinpoche will be in France from 20-26 May. Rinpoche will be participating in a dialogue near Nice in Southern France