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The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan may have been justified to win a larger peace but that is it too soon to judge whether the Iraq war was warranted.

The Dalai Lama has been here before. He has been to Bloomington, and countless other cities around the nation, to talk up the plight of his Tibetan compatriots, thousands of whom have lived in exile for nearly 50 years since a failed uprising against China.

The new Buicks on the Kang Da car showroom floor glisten like melted yak butter. The sheen, however, belies the grueling odyssey that each of the Shanghai-made sedans had to make to reach the biggest auto dealership in Tibet, the "Roof of the World."

The sixth session of the 13th Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies began yesterday here at the Assembly hall in the premises of the Central Tibetan Administration.

LHASA - The giggles and holiday chatter die down as visitors enter the small, lightly furnished room. Turning silently to the empty throne, they fold their hands in prayer, touch their heads three times and prostrate themselves on the carpeted floor.

President George W. Bush welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House, a day after China accused Washington of allowing the Tibetan spiritual leader to carry out "separatist" activity on its soil.

Brandeis University has donated the bulk of its Tibetan art collection to a New York museum in a move the school said is aimed at preserving rare pieces of Tibetan culture for the Tibetan people, the school announced Tuesday.

On September 8 the U.S. Senate passed, by unanimous consent, a resolution honoring Tibet's Dalai Lama and welcoming him to the United States.

On the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Dalai Lama will offer a public teaching at Washington National Cathedral on cultivating peace as an antidote to violence.

The Dalai Lama is to visit Japan in November for two days of public peaking engagements, his supporters said Monday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will appear at Kokugikan hall in Tokyo on November 1 and 2, according to the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama