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The Lower Mainland arts community is preparing to celebrate the four-day visit of the Dalai Lama, who arrives in Vancouver this Saturday. The spiritual and political leader of Tibet will be joined by two other Nobel Laureates during his stay.

Ten years ago, the world witnessed the startling spectacle of maroon-robed Tibetan monks - those tribunes of inner peace and outer compassion - hurling stones, soda bottles and curses at each other at the gates of a Buddhist institute in New Delhi.

After weeks of dithering, Prime Minister Paul Martin's office announced yesterday that he will meet the Dalai Lama in Ottawa next week, blindsiding and upsetting both the Chinese embassy and the organizers of the exiled Tibetan leader's visit.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Los Angeles today from Tokyo. He was received at the airport by Representative Ngawang Rabgyal, US Diplomatic Security Agents Bill Maxwell, Mark Hartfield and Garth Pettijohn, and others.

Paul Martin will become the first Canadian prime minister to meet with the Dalai Lama despite protests from trade dynamo China. Martin has decided to meet the Nobel prize winner next week when the Tibetan spiritual leader visits Canada.

A week before the Dalai Lama's arrival in Canada, Prime Minister Paul Martin's office announced he will meet with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, met with a member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Monday during a stopover at Narita airport, east of Tokyo.

Tenzin Gyatso, or the XIV Dalai Lama, is called `Kundun', meaning the `presence' by those close to him. This implies what this festival, which includes a photo exhibition and screening of films, seeks to attain.

The world's first official license plate honoring the Tibetan people and their endangered homeland was unveiled recently during a gathering of the Washington DC area's Tibetan exile community.

Tibetan leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama has left on a month-long tour of U.S., Canada and U.K. Hundreds of Tibetans waited outside the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala to wish him luck before his departure on Sunday.