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Junior Australian mining company Sino Gold has struck an obstacle in its quest to mine Tibetan gold - the Dalai Lama. Paddy Manning reports. Sino Gold chairman Nick Curtis has a thick wad of letters from Australians concerned about his company's plans to mine for gold in Jinkang

The Uma Club of Rajpur Regional Tibetan Youth Congress won the Pawo Thupten Ngodup memorial cricket tournament on 11th May. The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Shimla organized the event.

A different way of creating awareness about Tibet and the XIth Panchen Lama was organised in Mcleod Gunj on 11th May. A group of Tibet supporters gathered at the Peace Cafe in Mcleod Ganj, to conduct a frank and informal discussion on Tibet to the visiting tourists.

Lakpa Lama, a monk from the Kyidong Samtenling Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, works Thursday on a sand mandala at the Hamersly Library at Western Oregon University in Monmouth.(TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ)

Almost grain by grain, they are creating beauty out of nothingness. The Tibetan Monks from Kyidong Samtenling Monastery will complete their sand mandala today at Western Oregon University’s Hamersly Library.

There are numerous theories on the origin of the art of Thangka painting. One theory states that the art of Thangka painting originated from Indian Buddhist cloth paintings called Pata of which no sample exists. The art travelled to Tibet through Pakistan.

Gulshan Grover's latest venture has taken him towards the Tibetan cause. In the film, We Are Not Monks, Grover stars as an Indian police officer in charge of McLeodganj where the exiled Tibetan community lives.

Four climbers from Chinese-administered Tibet Wednesday scaled the world's fifth tallest peak, 8,463-metre (27,762-foot) Mount Makalu, the tourism ministry announced.

A female amputee in her forties called Anu and a Tibetan monk, Lobsang Namgyal, are serving prison sentences at Drapchi (Tibet Autonomous Region Prison Number One) for political offences.

China's rapid development has changed the lives of its many minority tribes forever. Many, living in tourist showcase villages, no longer really know where home is. Singing at the Yunnan Nationalities Village, a Kunming cultural exhibition centre