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The decision to invite the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to take part in this August’s Tattoo just a month after the Dalai Lama’s trip to Scotland was a mistake, Edinburgh’s Lord Provost said yesterday, amid growing fears over policing.

With just over a week until the Dalai Lama arrives in Canada for a visit, Prime Minister Paul Martin still hasn't decided whether he'll meet the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists.

Tibetan exiles have called on Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to meet the Dalai Lama on his upcoming visit to Ottawa, accusing the Canadian leader of bowing to pressure from China.

The man who many Buddhists regard as a living god walks into the room and, before sitting down, displays his famous sense of humour. 'There's a rumour going around Tibet that I have died,' he says through an interpreter.

In the summer of 1987, Tom Peosay, an NBC cameraman, went on what was intended to be a vacation, trekking in Nepal. Soon enough, it wasn't. "It was really a fluke," said Peosay recently.

The North East Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (NERTYC) today organized a 24-hour hunger strike at Court More, Siliguri, to stress the longstanding demand for religious education of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, at Tashi Lhunpo monastery.

Chinese authorities in Tibet are conducting a systematic indoctrination campaign in a major monastery aimed at forcing Tibetan monks to accept a Panchen Lama chosen by Beijing, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Thupten Phelgye, an internationally revered Buddhist monk who holds the prestigious title of Geshe (Top Scholar) and is a close confidant of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile

Paul Martin, that most decisive of men, still can't make up his mind whether to see the Dalai Lama, who is visiting Ottawa in the third week of April.

Free Tibet Week, a weeklong event, came to a close Thursday. The campaign focused on the country’s culture and a half-century long struggle for liberation from Chinese occupation.