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Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen, Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Parliament, ladies and gentleman, It is an honour for me to address this important forum on Tibet. I thank very much the organizers

Tibetan Monk Geshe Sonam starts work on the mandala at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.Picture: Ian Wilson

BALLARAT will play host to a group of Tibetan monks from the Sera Je Monastery in India this week. The monks, headed by the director of the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre in Geelong, Geshe Sonam, will undertake a variety of activities at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

IBFF Presents 8 Premieres, Including the November 20th Opening Night Gala and U.S. Premiere of Travellers & Magicians by Khyentse Norbu, Who Will Attend Closing Night, November 23, Features the L.A. Premiere of Werner Herzog's Wheel Of Time

Since the late 1990s, reports about the exclusion of ethnic Tibetan tour guides, particularly those educated in schools from the Tibetan exile community in India, have reached the outside world.

The Italy-Tibet parliamentary group has organised a visit with the Dalai Lama from November 26-28 in conjunction with the Italy-Tibet association, pro-Tibet city, provincial and regional associations, Amnesty Internazional, Association of Tibetan Women (TWA)

Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso enters Schailbe Auditorium at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with interpreter Rigdzin Tighzi. Gyatso told the audience about his 33 years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of his Chinese captors. (Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News)

He was the monk who lived. And living through 33 years in a Chinese prison in the snowy mountains of Tibet was far more unusual than merely dying, Palden Gyatso told an auditorium full of Fairbanks high school students last week.

Archeologists found a large-scale sacrificial relics site along the Qinghai-Tibet railway in Nagqu County in the Tibet Autonomous Region.