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The Dalai Lama speaks with Toronto Star reporter Martin Regg Cohn at a heavily guarded hilltop residence in northern India. The Buddhist monk has recently restarted a dialogue with Beijing after a decade-long estrangement. (ANGUS MCDONALD FOR THE TORONTO STAR)

Before answering any questions, His Holiness fires off one of his own: "Is it true you have recently been to Tibet — without a Chinese escort?"

Tibetan Youth Congress information secretary Jigme Ghadong on Thursday called upon the students to mount pressure on the Indian government to help the Tibetans get freedom. Interacting with the students of Andra Loyala College, Ghadong

Tshering Yangzom (name changed) did not know what the Dalai Lama looked like until today, when she saw the spiritual leader after a journey fraught with danger lurking at every step.

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A recording of sacred Tibetan Buddhist chants by Tibetan monks from a monastery near Dharamsala, India, is one of the nominations for the 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which were announced in Beverly Hills, CA, on December 4, 2003.

The doors of communication between China's Central government and the Dalai Lama are wide open, a senior Chinese official was quoted as saying on Thursday by Xinhua news agency.

On the eve of his first official visit to Washington, D.C., Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has made a statement on Tibet that calls into question China's sincerity in moving forward with the process of dialogue and negotiations with the Dalai Lama's representatives.

The president of the European Parliament's Tibet Intergroup, MEP Thomas Mann, strongly opposed German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's offer to the Chinese government to lift the ban on arms sales.

Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra Vogel (left) moderated the panel. Tibetan activist Lobsang Sangay, currently an S.J.D. candidate at HLS, participated. (Photo by Marc Halevi)