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Victor Chan was a self-confessed, 20-something "Chinese hippie" making his way across Asia in a Volkswagen van when he tagged along with a girlfriend to meet the Dalai Lama in the northern Indian village the Buddhist monk called home.

Some nations excite our imagination by the magnificence of their landscape, the splendour of their culture or even their sheer remoteness. Other nations trouble our conscience like an open wound. Only Tibet does both.

In what may turn out to be the light at the end of the tunnel, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa said he expects a response from China within the next 2 weeks to his administration's request to 'discuss the matter of beginning the actual process of negotiations'.

Expat Tibetans are busily anticipating the imminent Canadian visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who arrives April 24. Monks are praying in their South Shore temple, other Tibetans are preparing thousands of momos - traditional Tibetan chow

Prime Minister Paul Martin's decision to meet the Dalai Lama, despite strong protests from China, is highly commendable. He will be the first Canadian prime minister to do so, joining a growing list of other world leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Mr. Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a statement on 13th April 2004 on the three young Tibetans who are on indefinite hunger strike in front of United Nations headquarters in New York organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC).

The officials of the Central Tibetan Administration were blessed with a rare opportunity to see and listen to an unglamorous celebrity from the Tibetan freedom struggle.

The Tibetan exile government hopes that the Dalai Lama's meeting with Prime Minister Paul Martin next week will not affect tentative negotiations with China, which opposes the meeting.

When the Dalai Lama flew into California from India earlier this week for three days of spiritual teaching and lectures, he was given full exalted personage treatment - an official motorcade, diplomatic security protection

I interviewed the the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, the site of the Tibet Government in Exile and the home of the Tibetan leader since 1960. Pilgrims usually get to Dharamsala by bus, train, or taxi from New Delhi, an arduous journey of up to 12 hours.