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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.

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)

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.