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This story was written by the driver for the Tashi Lhunpo Monks tour. A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks traveling the United States from Tashilhunpo Monastery in southern India were met with a severe wave of religious intolerance recently in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk named Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was arrested and prosecuted in a secret trial in China a year ago. The indictment, verdict and evidence were all kept secret.

At the wee hour of the second day, the freedom marchers woke up to a new day with rejuvenated zeal and enlivened commitment to carry forward their sacred and crucial mission

The effort to set up a regional chapter of the Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) in Kollegal Tibetan settlement in South India was quashed unexpectedly at the winter session of the 4th Local Tibetan Assembly

The Central Tibetan Administration expresses its regrets over the confusion and disturbance that took place yesterday at Dharamsala during the peace march undertaken by the Tibetan Youth Congress due to certain misunderstanding and communication gap.

The Tibetan Youth Congress in its 34 years of existence has organized various extensive, conclusive and peaceful activities for the cause of a Free Tibet.

The police today lathicharged a group of Tibetan Youth Congress peace marchers who were on the way to New Delhi to participate in Tibetan Uprising Day, to be celebrated on March 10.

"Tibetans are a naturally a happy people," says Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama. Quite a statement considering that since the Chinese invaded and occupied Tibet in 1950, over 1,2 million Tibetans have been killed and that in 1959 the Dalai Lama

Those who came to hear harmonious chants and prayers of Buddhist monks at the Basilica of St. Adalbert instead found themselves ousted from the sanctuary by a conservative Catholic splinter group bent on disrupting the performance.

In the latest development which turned out to be a triumph for the peace marchers and their supporters, the local police allowed the peace marchers to resume their walk to Delhi.