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HE IS a spiritual leader of immense stature who smiles constantly but favours a dress code based entirely on a shade of orange. Whether His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, is the person to stretch a healing hand across Glasgow’s infamous religious chasm is problematic.

Tibet's government-in-exile has described as provocative a ban by the Chinese government on portraits of the Dalai Lama in two Tibetan areas in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, RFA's Tibetan service reports.

The ethical values of South African mining major Gold Fields have been called into question after its tie-up with an Australian mining junior that plans to build and operate the first foreign-owned gold mine in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

A one-day seminar on the Use of Tibet’s Water Resources and Its impacts on the Indian sub-continent was held in New Delhi today. It was attended by about 90 people. Speakers include water activists, researchers, analysts and journalists.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who is beginning his first state visit to the United States in the first half of December, has told the Washington Post, " The door to communication between the central government and the Dalai Lama is wide open."

After the successful completion of the First Phase of Bharat Jagran Yatra, Tibet awareness programs covering more than 1500 Indian villages and major Indian cities in March 2003. Tibetan Youth Congress is now launching the Second Phase of Tibet Awareness Program targeting at different

Tibetan monks from the Namgyal Monastery of Ithaca, Tenzin Lobsang, left, Tenzin Thutop and Tenzin Choenden chant prayers for world peace and for the freedom of Tibet at the beginning of the 11th annual Tibet Day Celebration Saturday at the Women's Community Building. The event was hosted by the Tibetan Community of Ithaca. (BILL WARREN/Journal Staff)

The Women's Community Building was packed Saturday with people trying to gain a greater understanding of what it means to be Tibetan. During the lunch break at the 11th annual Tibet Day Celebration, some waited in line for Tibetan food

XIAOJIANG HU, left, a lecturer in sociology, and LOBSANG SANGAY, a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School discuss Tibet at a panel hosted by Radio Free Asia Friday. (CRIMSON/ RAVI P. RAMCHANDANI)

Experts on Chinese-Tibetan relations told a sparse audience at the JFK Jr. Forum Friday that it is possible but unlikely that tensions between China and the region it invaded in 1949 will be resolved.