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The Tibetan exile government has rejected Chinese criticism of a visit by the Dalai Lama in September to the United States but still hopes for a third visit to China by an exile government delegation, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Forty-seven Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom have urged their Government to pressure China to remove the death sentence on Tibetan Buddhist leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche during the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue beginning on November 9, 2003.

From India to Athens, 11 Tibetan monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery are in Athens to share their message of a world transformed by wisdom and compassion.

The government will open news ways and opportunities to enhance Nepal-Tibet trade, informed the newly-appointed consular general of Tibet, Lila Mani Poudel while meeting businessmen here today.

Tibetan stringer Gedun Rinchen reported from Kathmandu that on May 29th during the Shoton Festival in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, four or five Tibetan nuns staged a brief demonstration calling for Tibet’s independence.

On 31 October, 2003, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was warmly received at Narita Airport by the representatives of the Welcome Committee of the current Visit to Japan and Mr. Chope Paljor Tsering

Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khandro Rinpoche steals a few quiet moments in between her speakingengagements in Boulder. (Jonathan Castner)

As a young girl born to a Tibetan Buddhist who ran a monastery, Khandro Rinpoche felt a bit outnumbered. "My sister and myself were the only women there, besides my mother," she says. "We were surrounded by monks who were men, teachers who were men, everywhere were men."

The Dalai Lama speaks about the 'Power of Compassion' before a Japanese audience of over 4,000, in Tokyo November 1, 2003. The Dalai Lama arrived in Japan on Friday for a visit that is likely to irritate China, which views Tibet's exiled spiritual leader as a 'dangerous separatist.' Photo by Toshiyuki Aizawa

Ten Tibetan, Buddhist monks spent four days constructing the mandala in the Ohio Room. The mandala is a three-dimensional sand artform that is created during their meditation. The mandala was swept into an urn and destroyed Thursday to symbolize how nothing in life is permanent. (SARAH BILITSKI/PENN)