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The Dalai Lama smiles during a function marking the end of a year celebrating the 360th anniversary of the Tibetan system of government at Dharamsala, India, Friday, May 16, 2003. (AP photo/Angus McDonald)

In what turned out to be one of the major official functions this year, hundreds gathered at the Tsuklakhang courtyard to take part in a year's successful completion of the celebration of 360th anniversary of Gaden Phodrang government of Tibet.

Dakpa Kelden and local villagers from Trini at the site of the WWF-supported community learning center and ecolodge. (Ramy Inocencio)

On the edge of the Tibetan plateau is a place of such breathtaking beauty that it is claimed to be the inspiration for Shangri-la, "the spiritual land of peace and perfection". Not that long ago, this region was off-limits to the world.

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

The bones of Buddha will go on public display in Patna from Friday, the anniversary of his birth 2,600 years ago, officials said. Visitors to the Patna Museum will pay Rs. 100 rupees for the privilege of being able to view the priceless Buddhist relic in a specially designed room