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Far from the madding crowd that followed Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani everywhere on Sunday, a small group of 50 to 60 people, many of them Buddhist monks, gathered at the Chitrakoot Art Gallery a little before noon to celebrate the birthday of the Dalai Lama.

The 68th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that falls today was celebrated here in London yesterday with colourful Tibetan traditional songs and dances that won appreciative applause from the audience who filled the Westminster Cathedral Hall and its balcony.

(Phayul\Photo by Prem Sood)

Taking a positive view of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's recent visit to China, the Tibetan government-in-exile has said the joint statement issued during the visit should be accepted as an effort towards peace in Asia which will also lead to peace in Tibet.

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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.

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)