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For the first time since he escaped to India four years ago from Chinese-controlled Tibet, Karmapa lama Ugyen Trinley Dorji has stated that ‘‘Tibet’s problem is India’s problem’’ and that India ‘‘a big and powerful nation can do much more for the Tibetan cause’’ than it has been able to do so far.

On the 27th February 2004, The "Freedom March" set off from a village on the outskirt of Lalru, a town 15 kms from Ambala city. As the morning routine concludes, the participants were informed about the sad demise of the former political prison

About 50,000 Buddhists pilgrims from all around the world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, arrived at Tso Pema/Rewalsar to observe the triple significant occasion—holy day, month and year.

China has published a scathing attack on the human rights situation in the United States, retaliating for a similar report issued by Washington last week that accused Beijing of backsliding on its rights record.

Gangtok, Buddhist scholars in Sikkim, a frontier state bordering China, are worried over their faith getting diluted as winds of change blow across the lofty Himalayan ranges.

Dalai Lama today expressed hope that the twenty first century would herald an era of peace, cooperation and mutual respect in the world.

After the Uri-Muzaffarabad road, the opening of the Ladakh-Tibet border at Demjok, Leh, is in the pipeline. This will facilitate trade in the region as it would open the pilgrimage of Kailash Mansarovar for Indian tourists.

Showcase of Award Winning International Films from India, Nepal, France and England. The Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota is sponsoring the third Tibetan Film Festival, March 5-11, 2004.

On a recent February morning, a celebration of the Tibetan New Year began in a bright yellow house on Magoun Avenue. Red-robed Tibetan Buddhist monks tended to last-minute tasks, as other people arrived and sat on cushions near

Jeffrey Paine opens his riveting narrative about Tibetan Buddhism's emergence in the West with an account of Thomas Merton's brief but prophetic encounter with "the dharma."