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On the 7th October 1950, independent Tibet was invaded by the armies of the newly founded People’s Republic of China. Since then, the Chinese government has systematically colonised Tibet.

Nubra valley, Ladakh in August 2003

Singer Loten Namling from Switzerland calls his one-year tour to India, Nepal and Bhutan a ''Musical Journey'' during which he plans to perform at various Tibetan settlements and institutes; and meet fellow singers and document their musical talents.

The Tibetans on Saturday commemorated the 16th anniversary of the fist major political outbreak after the 1959 uprising against the Chinese regime.

Until two years ago, farmer Nyima, 44, and her husband, Bazhu, 45, eked out a living on their little plot outside Tsedang, earning about 300 yuan (S$63) a month.

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A row over Communist cronyism has erupted in China after the prime minister approved plans to build a controversial dam on a Tibetan holy lake, one of the country's last great wildernesses.

Tourists and Buddhist pilgrims flow through a dim quarter of a Lhasa temple illuminated by manhole-size butter candles in brass urns. Some stop to tuck a banknote or two in glass barriers in front of towering Buddhist images, including the Great Fifth Dalai Lama

After giving up his job as a programmer and leaving his native village for the datsan (temple) at Ivolga, the spiritual heart of Russian Buddhism, Chingiz Shagdurov found peace at last.

Engulfed in a maroon robe on a sun-splotched wooden stage at Oak Grove School, Samdhong Rinpoche used gentle motions of his hand to select students whose arms were raised with questions.