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The Sixth session of the 13th Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies on Friday met for its concluding session. The Assembly passed several bills on various issues during the ten-day session.

"What shape are a cat's ears?" That's hardly the kind of question His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is accustomed to being asked. The leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the best-selling author and one of the world's best-known spokesmen for moral causes

Tibetan parliament-in-exile has passed a resolution paving the way for transfer of some powers from the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to the assembly.

President Johannes Rau surprised observers with a forthright speech in which he demanded that the Chinese government show respect for human rights. Actually Rau spoke of ordinary matters - it was the surprise of the public that was significant: in China

Unexpectedly, the President of Germany Johannes Rau has openly reproved the Chinese government to respect human rights. In a speech in front of 1000 students of the University of Nanjing, Rau said that criticism of violations of human rights

The Dalai Lama last week at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology symposium on consciousness and the mind. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

A Japanese mountaineer is attempting to settle once and for all the decades-long debate over the existence of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, claiming that his years of study have shown that the legendary apelike monster is in fact a brown bear.

Miranda Mimi Kuo for The New York Times "They couldn't imagine I could come to Tibet. They said, 'It's not possible. She's blind.'" SABRIYE TENBERKEN

Upon arriving in Tibet, Sabriye Tenberken decided to tour the countryside, not from the comfort of a car, but atop the hard saddle of a horse. It was a chancy decision, not only because the rugged Tibetan landscape can be unforgiving and treacherous

The 14th Dalai Lama, who has been addressing sold-out crowds from coast to coast, will give a free public talk at noon Sunday in Central Park's East Meadow, an event expected to draw tens of thousands of people.