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Pope John Paul II received the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, in an audience Thursday that the Vatican kept extremely low-key to avoid a further chill in its icy relations with China.

US President George W Bush has offered his strong support to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his efforts to initiate a dialogue with the Chinese government. White House officials outlined Mr Bush's

The Dalai Lama says he is extremely eager to negotiate with China about the treatment of Tibet and is optimistic about the outcome even though Beijing remains suspicious.

Pope John Paul has met the Dalai Lama but the Vatican, which has very thorny relations with China, gave the visit a low profile. The name of the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet did not appear on the list of people received by the pope in the Vatican's daily bulletin on Thursday

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday was received officially by Margherita Boniver, Italian Deputy Foreign Minister who was accompanied by four of her advisers.

The Himachal Government has accepted the project of the International University of Buddhist Studies to be established here. In a statement here today, University’s founder Chancellor Prof Swami Buddhanand said

Before 1921, Mongolians recognised a living Buddha as ruler, so the discovery of a legitimate successor to the last ruler has not been viewed with enthusiasm by the present-day government, Forum 18 News Service has found.

Everybody may not know about Tibet, but everybody knows the Dalai Lama,’’ smiles Pema Tsomo. A student of Library Science at Wadia College, Tsomo who has been in Pune for four years, wants to help spread awareness about Tibet.

The Nepalese authorities have released nine Tibetans who crossed the border from China without travel documents two years ago after an overseas Tibetan organization provided money for their fines, RFA's Tibetan service reports.