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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."

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Former Tibetan Political Prisoner Ngawang Sangdrol on October 31, 2003 informed the United States Congress about the gap between Chinese rules and their implementation in Tibet. In her remarks before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus

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The Department of Home of the Central Tibetan Administration today concludes its meeting of settlement representatives held in Dharamsala from 28 October-1 November, 2003. A lot of issues have been touched during the meeting which saw

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)