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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.

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Chokhor Duchen is just past over the weekend, the last sermon that the Buddha gave centuries ago was marked by Tibetans here with prayer and ceremonial tying of scarves. These Tibetans may be small in number, most of them young

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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)

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.

Northern India serves up great versions of the substantial, often plain but occasionally overpowering cuisine from the roof of the world. While top chefs through the ages have created delicacies with grain, vegetable and livestock

An Australian delegation investigating the human rights situation in Tibet has finished its seven-day tour of the Himalayan region. The tour focused on education, public health and religious freedom.