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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 European Union has opened human rights talks with China, with torture, the death penalty and political prisoners on the agenda, sources close to the discussions said.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Wednesday encouraged the international community to "make good friends" with China, saying it would be the best way to help the Tibetan cause. Asked at a news conference in Rome

The Dalai Lama chuckles as hr answers questions at a news conference in Rome, Wednesday Nov. 26, 2003. The Dalai Lama is in Italy at the invitation of a bipartisan inter-parliamentary group, which last month pushed through a resolution in parliament's lower chamber calling for the Italian government to take all possible initiatives to resolve the Tibet dispute. (AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo)

Countries shouldn't confront China directly on the delicate Tibet issue but rather befriend it and then work to promote human rights and religious freedom through a trusting relationship with Beijing, the Dalai Lama said Wednesday.

Nepal and the People's Republic of China (PRC) define their relationship as 'warm' and based on cooperation and mutual respect, but practices along the Tibet-Nepal border reveal an unequal partnership, skewed to the disadvantage of the Nepalese.