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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)

Twice this year, delegations representing the Dalai Lama have gone to Beijing to hold talks with officials of the Chinese government. Many have interpreted these discussions as a sign that tensions between Beijing and the Tibetan religious leader are easing

Last year, there were separate eyewitness reports by Western mountain climbers of Chinese border police firing upon Tibetan refugees as well as pursuing refugees across Nangpa la into Nepal territory.

A clarification for English scholars preceded the Dalai Lama’s sermons at St Joseph’s College ground today. Lamas, he said, were not “living Buddhas” as many westerners described them.