According to a UNESCO press release on 10 July 2003, Fifteen new sites in 10 countries have been added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves, including the first members of the network in Slovenia and Yemen.
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.
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.
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.
Prayers for peace, love and tolerance . . . Smoke from burning incense and green wood drifts across as (from left) Losang Dawa, Tibetan lamas the Venerables Lhagon Rinpoche and Thupten Tulku Rinpoche, and Tibetan monks Khedrup Tharchin and Losang Thutop chant prayers for the wellbeing of humanity at the stupa (monument) in Portobello on the Dalai Lama's 68th birthday yesterday.
Prayers for the wellbeing of humanity were offered by Tibetan monks at the Portobello stupa on the Dalai Lama's birthday yesterday. Sweet-smelling smoke from burning incense and green wood billowed as lamas and monks from the Dunedin Dhargyey Buddhist Centre chanted prayers.
