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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.

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.

Tibetan exiles went to a prison here today to pay fines to release 18 Tibetan refugees, but they were too late: minutes earlier, two Chinese diplomats had arrived with a van preparing to forcibly carry the escapees back to Chinese-ruled Tibet.

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

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.

Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, turns to photographers before the beginning of a discussion on 'Visions of Global Ethics' during the first German ecumenical church convention in Berlin, Germany Friday, May 30, 2003. With more than 200.000 participants, the ecumenical convention is the first of its kind and size to bring together members of Germany's predominant Catholic and Lutheran churches. The event, filled with music, lectures and discussions, will continue until June 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer reaffirmed Germany's "One-China" policy Friday during a meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying that Tibet is part of the People's Republic, a spokesman said.

Three disciples of a condemned Tibetan monk are urging China to throw out his suspended death sentence, saying the bombing charges against Tenzin Deleg Rimpoche were false, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Tibetan Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees upon his arrival to a gathering part of Germany's first Ecumenical Church Day in Berlin.(AFP-DDP/Michael Urban)

Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama spoke out in Berlin in support of the international peace movement while the Chinese embassy accused him of pursuing separatist activities under the cover of religion.