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A group of Buddhist monks from India will be in town starting Thursday to share Tibetan culture and raise money for their home monastery, Drepung Gomang.

The Voice of America’s Tibetan Broadcast Service reported today that an audio tape smuggled out of Tibet, evidently from people with detailed knowledge of the Potala renovation underway in Lhasa

Three of the monks from Khangmar monastery in Kakhog (Chinese: Hongyuan) county in Ngaba prefecture arrested last summer have been sentenced to 12 years for political offences including painting a Tibetan flag and having photographs of the Dalai Lama.

A three day conference on Tibetan medicine will be held in New Delhi from 6 February. Himalayan Buddhist Cultural Association is organising this conference to primarily to seek an official recognition from the Indian government for the rich tradition of Tibetan healing science (Sowa Rigpa).

The list of various parliamentary groups for Tibet has recently gone up by one as a Scottish Parliamentary Group for Tibet has been formally formed on 29 January.

Muslims urged the Dalai Lama, who has appealed for dialogue to resolve India's most heated Hindu-Muslim dispute, to turn over a former mosque used by the Tibetan government-in-exile he set up here.

An audiotape smuggled out of Tibet and purportedly made by Tibetan workers alleges that Chinese authorities are mishandling renovation work done on the famed Potala Palace in Lhasa.

On February 2, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.Res.157, which calls on the Chinese government to release Tibetans held as prisoners of conscience for their involvement in efforts to end the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Sonam Chodron, a young Buddhist nun from Tibet, has been released from detention in a Virginia jail six months after arriving in the U.S., pending a government appeal of her request for asylum.

The University of Toronto will confer an honorary degree on the Dalai Lama for his spiritual leadership and commitment to the non-violent liberation of the Tibetan people.