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A planned visit by the Dalai Lama to the United States could damage relations between Washington and Beijing, China's state-controlled media warned Monday, dismissing the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a "political plotter."

In a remarkable amendment to the policies of the last decades, a government work report to the People's Congress of the Lhasa prefecture of April 2003, which was recently received by TIN, encourages migration from the rural areas of the prefecture to Lhasa city.

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

Larry Gerstein, a Ball State University professor, is the co-founder of the International Tibet Independence Movement. (Kurt Hostetler )

A Ball State University professor will join a host of international figures, including the Dalai Lama and boxing legend Muhammad Ali, at an event in Bloomington next week.

Tibetans and not China should decide if the Dalai Lama lives in Lhasa's Potala Palace, the government-in-exile said(AFP/File)

Tibetans and not China should decide if the Dalai Lama lives in Lhasa's Potala Palace, the government-in-exile said, after Beijing cast doubt on whether the spiritual leader would ever be allowed back to the 1,300-year-old mansion.