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One can sense the anger rising inside the hall as the green uniformed Chinese officer beats the Tibetan prisoner. The next moment, in another scene, a deafening silence prevails which was occasionally disrupted by the stifling cry of the ladies in one corner.

Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche (m) speaks during the inaugural function

"Henceforth, the Planning Council will be referred to as the Planning Commission and the office of Planning Council as the office of Planning Commission....... ", the Health and Finance Kalon Lobsang Nyandak read out the

Since the Chinese first occupied Tibet in 1951, social activists around the world have been petitioning the world's leaders to pressure China into freeing the tiny Asian country high in the Himalayas.

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Dear Fellow Tibetans and Friends in North America: Tashi Delek! I would like to wish all of you a wonderful celebration, as we celebrate the 68th birthday of our beloved spiritual and temporal leader, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Tulku Tenzin Gyurmev

Many Americans have never seen anything like this and many American followers of Buddhism can't remember a ceremony of this kind, being held in the United States. But it was held Wednesday in Cottage Grove, about 25 miles south of Eugene.

A 14th-century Tibetan mandala in bright colors and gold on cotton, created to be used in meditation and to be rolled up and carried.

You are traveling by bus a few hours out of Katmandu in Nepal. The sun is falling fast as the road climbs. When the bus stops to refuel, you climb out and look up at a new moon high in the sky.