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Kalon Thupten Lungrig, Minister for Religion & Culture as well as Education in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, paid a visit to the Tibet House in New York City on September 28th 2003. Kalon Lungrig addressed the Tibetan people who were gathered at the Tibet House.

Tibetans living here observed today as black day in protest against the Chinese declaration mentioning Tibet as a part of the mainland China.

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.