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Rounding a hairpin bend on the mountainous road to Xiahe in China's remote Gansu Province our bus suddenly slammed to a halt. The passengers surged forward to see the cause of the commotion. Face down in the gravel was the inert body of a woman.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and religious and secular leader, will make a rare visit to New York City, September 17-21, 2003. The Dalai Lama’s last visit to New York was in 1999. Events will include a public talk in Central Park

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be visiting Germany from 28 May to 2 June, 2003. During the weeklong visit, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address the participants of the first ever Ökumenischer Kirchentag (www.oekt.de/en) in Berlin on 30 May as invited by the organisers.

On September 13 and 14, 2003, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will come together with scientists, academics, and Buddhist scholar-practitioners for two extraordinary days of presentation and dialogue at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Office of Tibet, London, is pleased to announce that from June 2 to 10 His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be visiting Sweden and Denmark to give public talks, teachings and to meet with government officials and parliamentarians.

Members of the regional Tibetan Youth Congress and Regional Tibetan Women’s Association from their camps in Mysore district took out a silent procession. The procession was held to commemorate the signing of the infamous 17-point agreement the Chinese had forced Tibet to sign, 52-years-ago.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people, will visit five cities in the United States from September 5 to 24, 2003, at which time He will offer lectures in Buddhist philosophy and universal responsibility

If China recognises India's sovereignty over Sikkim it may gain increased leverage on border disputes in Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, and get more access to the expanding Indian market, Srikanth Kondapalli, China scholar

Namygal Tashi can't bring Mohammed to the mountain, so he's moving the mountain to Mohammed instead. Tashi, whose family lives in Kathmandu, operates a carpet factory that employs Buddhist Tibetan refugees. But international unrest

Religious groups approved by the Chinese government have hit back at a United States report criticising China for restricting freedom of worship. The heads of China's Islamic, Christian and Tibetan Buddhist groups have been