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Auction will help fund monk’s school

A group of Mainers is reaching out to help Tibetan Buddhists preserve their culture and traditions. The Mainers are coming together because of Geshe Lobzang Tsetan, a Buddhist monk who spends about a month in Maine each year teaching classes in Buddhism.

Tibetan monk arrested for Dalai Lama picture, flag

Chinese police in a county near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, have arrested a young monk for keeping in his quarters a photograph of the Dalai Lama and a Tibetan national flag, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Dalai Lama transfers his powers to Parliament-in-exile

The Tibetan parliament-in-exile has approved a seven, point agenda recommended by their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to transfer his powers to the parliament or the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies (ATPD).

Take up Tibet issue with China, NDP to PM

The National Democratic Party of Tibet on behalf of the Tibetans yesterday reiterated that unless the Tibet issue was resolved the restoration of the peace and good relations between India and China would remain just a diplomatic show.

Shakabpa’s Passport Recovered

With a great sense of achievement and elation, Friends of Tibet (INDIA) releases the information that the passport used by Tsepon Shakabpa Wangchuk Dedhen during independent Tibet, has been recovered after many years of missing

Tibet’s nowhere people battle tough life in India

Jampa Norgay is 10 years old, an age at which he should be in school. But the curly-haired boy has just spent a month trekking through treacherous snowy mountains and thick forests to escape from Tibet.

Illiteracy in Tibet “horrendous” says UN Expert

Ms. Katarina Tomasevski, the UN expert on education told the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), that the illiteracy situation in Tibet was "horrendous" and lacking far behind in comparison with the situation in China.

Cataracts – leading cause of blindness in Tibet

The latest survey on 5,000 eye disease sufferers has shown that cataracts are the leading eye disease that leads to blindness in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China.

Democracy Dalai-Style, at Dharamsala

While the Parliament of India is dissolved, another Parliament in the north of the country is busy with its budget session. Located in a one-storey building in McLeodganj, this is the 46-member Tibetan Parliament-in-exile (Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies).

Human rights in the People’s Republic of China

Mr. Chairman, I am delivering this statement on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples. China has been trying to compromise the issue of human rights with the international community by releasing a few

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