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Dalai Lama says he has received many marriage proposals over the years

Numerous women have over the years offered to marry the Dalai Lama, the celibate Tibetan spiritual leader told a German magazine. The exiled leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner told the weekly Die Welt am Sonntag, due to appear on

Dalai Lama’s No. 2 here to meet devotees

As a young monk, he studied Buddhist scriptures with the Dalai Lama. In 1959, he fled to India with Tibet's spiritual and political leader, after China occupied the country.

Nepal hands over Tibetan refugees to Chinese officials

A Tibetan woman is dragged away by Nepalese police after throwing herself in front of a bus of carrying deportees to the border with China, in Kathmandu, May 31, 2003. Nepal deported 18 Tibetans to China on Saturday, the biggest group to be sent back for several years, bringing a strong rebuke from the United Nations refugee agency. (REUTERS/Nick Dawson)

Nepal hands over Tibetan refugees to Chinese officials

Police in Nepal handed over 12 to 18 Tibetan refugees to Chinese authorities on Saturday in what activists said was a break with Nepal's past tolerance of Tibetans trying to leave their Himalayan territory.

The rich get richer, and the poor? Rural poverty and inequality in Tibet – indications from recent official surveys

Recent official surveys from the TAR and Qinghai - the latter province traditionally known to Tibetans as Amdo - reveal several startling results. Extreme poverty in the TAR, as measured by the official poverty line in China

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Tenzin Tangchen Dera, 18, is graduating today from the New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics. She is one of five students in the school's first graduating class and will attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. - Kathy De La Torre | The New Mexican

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Long ago, Tenzin Yangchen Dera figured she would wind up like most Tibetan girls in India. She would drop out of boarding school, weave carpets and marry by 25, living the rest of her life with her husband's family.

Two-day conference of the North India Tibet Supporting Group Concludes in Patiala

A two-day conference of the North India Tibet Supporting Group comes to an end here in Patiala. The conference was organized by the efforts of the Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch at S.D. Senior Secondary School, Patiala.

Dharamsala condemns Tibetans’ Deportation

The Tibetans received a major setback today with the extradition of 18 Tibetan refugees to China by the Nepalese government. Condemning the act as shocking and 'not a good gesture', the Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government based in Dharamsala

Nepal Deports 18 Tibetan Refugees to Chinese Authorities; Refugees Face Immediate Danger

At 5:45 am on Saturday, May 31, Nepalese authorities loaded 18 Tibetan refugees from Hannaman Dhoka prison in Kathmandu onto a Chinese Embassy vehicle, according to eyewitnesses. The refugees were reportedly in distress while they

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