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Plans are afoot to host a Kalachakra initiation ceremony here in 2005. This was disclosed by the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Minister Maj. Vijay Singh Mankotia, after meeting the Dalai Lama at his residence in Mcleodganj yesterday.

The authorities in Lhasa are planning to demolish the larger part of the remaining village of Shol at the foot of the Potala Palace, former winter residence of the Dalai Lama, to make way for a square and a museum.

A Lhasa official made a rare admission of the arrest of two Tibetans on ‘splittist’ offences this week, according to a report by Associated Press on 27 August. Vice Mayor of the city Dargye told reporters on an official press trip to the

Spiritual leader in exile arrives this week to receive honorary degree at USF. They look like plump Chinese potstickers -- but don't call them "Chinese" -- ever. The 5,000 or so, fluffy, steamed pastries -- stuffed with savory meat

Herald Correspondent Hamish McDonald, who spent a week in Tibet, found its citizens in retreat. Less than four years from now, a train unlike any other will rumble across the 4000-metre high Tibetan plateau.

Tibet is modernising rapidly, thanks to booming China's billions, but at what cost to its unique culture? The hottest nightclub on the roof of the world sits between an enormous concrete monument to Chinese rule and Potala Palace

Voice of America (VOA), in an editorial quoting United States officials, says the Chinese Government is not living up to its human rights commitments. The editorial, broadcast on August 26, 2003

It is nearly 100 years since Col Francis Younghusband's machine guns killed 700 Tibetan warriors in four minutes in the Tibetan plain on the "roof of the world".

Negotiations between Tibet's government in exile and leaders in Beijing have prompted international speculation that the Dalai Lama may be closer to a return to his homeland. But in the monasteries and temples of Tibet

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