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All preparations have been completed to extend a warm welcome to world peace leader and nobel prize winner Dalai Lalma, who is visiting here in connection with Gandhi Jayanti Samaroh on Thursday by Prasthan Ashram at khanpur locality of this city.

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The fourth issue of Liaowang Xizang, the Chinese-language journal published by the International Campaign for Tibet, analyzes the increasing interest in Tibetan Buddhism by the Chinese community in South-East Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the West, and particularly inside China.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery begin to sketch the design for a mandala after a traditional opening ceremony at The Washington Center for Performing Arts on Monday evening. (Photo by Ron Soliman/The Olympian)

During the next seven days, Olympia residents can watch the world be created and destroyed -- symbolically speaking, that is. Tibetan monks are creating a mandala -- a circular geometric pattern that, on one level

All contestants of the second Miss Tibet beauty contest, which commences here on October 8, will reach the town tomorrow. Mr Lobsang Wangyal, Chief Organiser of the contest said, here today the contestants would undergo a week-long rehearsal from tomorrow.

A Buddhist, an Irish Catholic and an agnostic walk into a bar, but this joke has no punch line. They are all freedom fighters for the nation of Tibet who have come together despite religious or social differences to form the new student organization called Students for a Free Tibet.

Tsering Kyi, Miss Tibet 2003 (Photo by Prem Sood)

In a modest press meeting, Lobsang Wangyal, the Director-cum-Producer of the Lobsang Wangyal Production, today formally announced Tsering Kyi as the unopposed winner of the Miss Tibet 2003.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend the annual Maha Guru prayer offering (Bumtsok- Tibetan Buddhist ritual that involves distribution of food and edibles on large scale to the devotees) at the Tsuglakhang main temple tomorrow.