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Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures while addressing a group of Tibetan students in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October 5, 2003. (REUTERS/Ajay Verma)

Interacting with a small group of Tibetans on Sunday afternoon, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said that the United States administration is "very supportive" of Tibet's cause.

An image of the goddess of mercy, Kuanyin, cast in solid gold and decorated with precious stones. (PHOTO COURTESY OF NMH)

Tibet has gained widespread international attention through the activities of the Dalai Lama and the movement to keep Tibetan culture alive in the face of the Chinese juggernaut that threatens to obliterate it.

From next tommorow people in Mangalore are thinking of taking holidays for three days. Reason? They are excited that the Tibetan students in the city have promised them snowlions!

On 24 August, twenty-one Tibetans from settlements in India and the Himalayan regions joined eight students and professionals from Cambridge, England at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in Auroville.

TIN has produced a summary overview of the Tibetan population in the PRC, derived from the 2000 population census. The data available to TIN is aggregated at a provincial level only, which makes the analysis of eastern Tibet

The US government’s policy view on the Tibet issue has been broadened with a new definition of Tibetan territory. The US previously defined Tibet as the Tibet Autonomous Region, which did not take into account the Tibetan areas of Kham and Amdo

Efforts will be made to make McLeod Ganj the focus of cultural activities in the years to come, said Shri Vijai Singh Mankotia, the honourable minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation of the Himachal Pradesh government.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit Delhi, Spain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic on a 19-day tour scheduled from October 5 to 23, 2003.