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Tibetan Lamas and monks carry a portrait of the Dalai Lama during celebrations to mark his 68th birthday in Sydney, Sunday, July 6, 2003. Tibetans and others all over the world celebrate their spiritual leaders' birthday although such celebrations are forbidden in Tibet. (AP/Photo by Dan Peled)

In an alarming crackdown on the rights of Tibetans living in Nepal, the Nepalese government yesterday banned all events celebrating the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who turns sixty-eight on Sunday.

Nepal's Tibetan community was prevented by authorities from celebrating the 68th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama(AFP/Devendra M. Singh)

Attempts by Nepalese Police to enforce a ban on Tibetan celebrations of the Dalai Lama's 68th birthday in Kathmandu were abandonned today amid cheers and revelry after hundreds of Tibetans defied the government order and gathered at the stupa in Boudha

A Tibetan monk prays in front of a shrine during a praying ceremony as a part of celebrations to mark the Dalai Lama's, in framed picture on left, 68th birthday in Sydney, Sunday, July 6, 2003. Tibetans and others all over the world celebrate their spiritual leaders' birthday although such celebrations are forbidden in Tibet. Photo by Dan Peled

Inspite of heavy rainfall Tibetans perform traditional dances to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s 68th birthday in Dharamsala. Photo by Prem Sood.

Bringing Tibet to San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum at Civic Center kicked off its AsiaAlive program, an interactive series of exhibits unlike any other in the nation. To celebrate this month's theme, "Auspicious Beginnings: The Arts of the Himalayas,"

Six of the counselors on Zionist youth movement summer camps in Britain this year will be Tibetans. Hailing from Dharamsala, Northern India, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered

Nathula. 1954. A cold morning. Motilal Lakhotia and Dip Chand Agarwal leave for Yatung, a trade post across the border in Tibet with their modest cargo. Their mode of travel? Mules — a mule track is all there is for the 52-km journey from Gangtok to Nathula, and onwards to Lhasa

China has started construction of the first railway station in Lhasa, Tibet's capital at a cost of 12 million US dollars that would be landmark in the Himalayan region.