News

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)

From a tightly packed room at the Six O'Clock Series lecture to a filled and buzzing dining hall containing table after table overflowing with food at the Interfaith dinner, to a steady stream of people watching the evolving sand mandala in the Ohio Room

The Dalai Lama is set to visit Florida International University next September -- making his second appearance at the school in five years.

Computers of the Tibetan government-in-exile and its support groups around the world have been hit by a major virus attack over the last month which the Tibetans fear could be the work of the Chinese government, officials said.

testing

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

Secretary Tsering Dhondup

Ladakhi girls weave carpets inside a workshop in Leh, in the north of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir October 2, 2003. A thaw in relations between India and China, the world's two most populous countries, has raised hopes in Ladakh, also known as little Tibet, of an end to its isolation from its nearest neighbor. Picture taken October 2, 2003. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE INDIA-CHINA REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski