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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.

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.

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