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Kyabje Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche, prominent Tibetan lama and throne holder of the Palyul Lineage, is visiting Washington, D.C. from August 21 to 24, 2003 to give Buddhist teachings and a talk on compassion and world peace.

Two of Tibet's longest serving political prisoners have received sentence reductions from the Chinese authorities. Both are monks of Drepung Monastery in Lhasa. Jamphel Jangchub (lay name Yugyal) received a three year reduction of his 19 year sentence

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has begun a special discourse on Buddhist teachings in Dharmasala. During the 10-day-long spiritual discourse, the Dalai Lama would explain the meanings of Buddhist scriptures to the devotees.

China said a boy picked by the Dalai Lama as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism and missing since 1995 is leading a "happy, normal" life, as his Beijing-selected replacement surfaced at a monastery.

Not many people have tried their hands at doing something different and come out a winner. Those who have made it have consciously or unconsciously left their footprints behind. In the Tibetan music world, Rangzen Shouno had

When the world began the year with all sorts of celebrations Friends of Tibet, India, marked it with the launch of their boycott campaign against the use, purchase and sale of Chinese goods.

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As the Indiana Jones films showed, Nazis, new age mumbo-jumbo and exotic locations are a formula that works. Christopher Hale's gripping and well-researched tale of an SS-sponsored scientific mission to Tibet in 1938-39 has the whole shebang

Brothers at concert (JJI website/File)