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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

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As Ahmedabad slips into another chilly winter, activity at the ‘Tibet na market’ hots up. Hundreds of stalls that sell colourful woollen wears sprout up on the banks of Sabarmati River as people throng the shops to keep away from the winter bite.

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.

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The European Union (EU) in a statement to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on 6 November had asked the People's Republic of China to receive a UN human rights expert "as soon as possible" and to produce concrete results to maintain its human rights dialogue with Beijing.

The Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, may soon return to Tibet, a leading Russian Buddhist leader said. ''The Dalai Lama hopes to return to China's Tibet Autonomous District within the next few years,'' Kirsan Ilyumzhinvov, President of Kalmykia