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An exhibition and sale of hand-knotted carpets coming to Timaru could represent a dying art. More than 50 traditionally crafted Tibetan carpets will be on display at the Landing Service Building from Friday.

The 14th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, was celebrated with sorrow in France saturday, mainly by the TSGs Etudiants pour un Tibet Libre, Solidarite Tibet, Communaute Tibetaine en France, Lions des Neiges and France-Tibet.

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Nobel laureate Dalai Lama blesses a child during a meeting with Tibetan refugees in Guwahati on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual head, in the city on his way to the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh

The Central Tibetan Administration is saddened to report the passing away of Lamo Tsangpa’s medium, Tsewang Namgyal. He took his last breath in the early hours of 24th April at the PGI Hospital in Chandigarh.

A meeting of All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum For Tibet was held on 24th April 2003 at North Avenue M.P.'s Club under the convenorship of Shri B.N.Singh(M.P- Rajya Sabha). Members of Indian Parliament from different parties extended their support

Fear of catching the deadly SARS virus has reached the mountain dwelling of the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan followers, who have been advised by traditional medicine practitioners to carry a small red pill and sniff it to ward off the disease.

The Tibetan government-in-exile here said on Saturday that it was not expecting defence minister of India George Fernandes, currently on tour to China, to take up the issue of Tibet with the Chinese authorities.

Approximately 30 people - including several representatives from UCSB's chapter of Students for a Free Tibet - gathered outside the Chinese Consulate on Friday. The students were recognizing the 14th birthday of the Buddhist Panchen Lama

A Tibetan woman listens to the Dalai Lama speak on "Connecting to the Guru" at the launch of Rajiv Mehrotra's book, The Mind of the Guru, in New Delhi, on Sunday, April 27, 2003. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)