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The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, looks skyward as he adjusts his garment before a news conference at a Paris hotel, October 13, 2003. (REUTERS/John Schults)

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday advised believers from other religions against converting to Buddhism.

A group of federal MPs is planning to protest against China's treatment of neighbouring Tibet when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Canberra next Friday.

Dr. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, will inaugurate the fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups to be held in Prague from 19-21 October 2003 in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the president

The European Union called Monday for continuing high-level talks with China on human rights, saying the issue is crucial to its ties with Beijing.

The council will foot the £16,500 bill for the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s visit to the Capital. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is to visit Edinburgh in June next year.

The exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, greets photographers as he poses in the courtyard of the George V hotel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. The Dalai Lama is proposing that world luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu join forces to defuse crises such as the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

The Dalai Lama is calling on respected world figures to join forces and intervene in major disputes. The exiled Tibetan leader says luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The Dalai Lama's latest best-seller, The Art of Happiness at Work, takes on the workplace issues of our day unemployment, job security, conflict, money, advancement, boredom vs. challenge in remarkably clear, straightforward, humorous prose.

The smugglers used a passage through the Tibetan mountains