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The art and culture of Tibet is as fascinating as it is mysterious. Hoping to bring the ancient culture to light, The Boulder Public Library is hosting "The Art and Culture of Tibet" celebration.

A Nepalese news agency has said that the 19 Tibetans who were detained at the border as they were trying to enter Nepal from Tibet on June 24, 2003 have now been handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office.

On the 6th July, across the globe and in South Africa supporters of the Tibetan non - violent freedom struggle will be celebrating the 68th birthday of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal leader.

Four days after reserving its comments, the Congress has endorsed the position Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee adopted on Tibet and Sikkim during his China trip last week. "We have studied the India-China joint declaration in some detail.

The monks meditate while working on the sand art

A sand painting made painstakingly grain by grain by Tibetan monks in Manchester has been destroyed - by those who built it. The intricate art work has been put together with coloured sand on a flat platform by monks at the city's town hall, over five days.

China has started construction of the world's highest railway station at a height of 5,068 metres above sea level on the southern face of the Dangla mountain range in Tibet autonomous region, a report said today.

Tibetans residing in Uttaranchal are resentful of India’s ‘‘changed’’ stance on Tibet. They plan to express their unhappiness on the issue to the Union government through their government-in-exile at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh.

Prime Minister Tony Blair is going to Beijing in July. Ngawang Sangdrol, a tiny Tibetan nun now in London, wants Blair to press China's leaders to negotiate with the Dalai Lama.

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