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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

The Dalai Lama may still be an innocent abroad but he comes with the sort of entourage that would make any celebrity proud.

In the lobby of the Hotel de Crillon, in Paris’s Place de la Concorde, a small, nervous huddle is beginning to form, their pallor and general dinginess thrown into sharp relief by the Baccarat crystal chandeliers and the manicured elegance of the paying guests.

Travellers and Magicians, Khyentse Rinpoche's second feature film after the much praised The Cup, was shown in a packed cinema hall during the 47th London Film Festival. Filmed in Bhutan with a cast entirely of non-professional actors and spoken in Dzongkha dialect

Assam's concern over reports about China planning to divert the course of the Brahmaputra found an echo in the Union ministry of water resources, which today wrote to the external affairs ministry for an update on the "factual position".