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Around 35 music teachers have arrived in Dharamsala to attend a workshop on Tibetan traditional music, conducted by the Education Department in coordination with the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA).

According to exclusive information from Tibet, a reliable source has indicated that Chadrel Rinpoche is under house arrest in an isolated resort (Chinese: dujian cun) south of Dib military camp (Tib Translit: Sgrib dmag khang) in Lhasa.

Two Tibetan monks visited the local community college to share their culture and give the college's new renovations their blessing on Monday. Venerable Tenzin Thutop and Venerable Lobsang Gyaltsen paid a visit to the Community

Adam Horovitz with the U.S. band The Beastie Boys performs during 10th Tibetan Freedom Concert, Sunday, April 20, 2003, in Taipei, Taiwan. The concert was organized by the Milarepa Fund founded by the Beastie Boys in 1994 to promote non-violence and youth activism. Photo by Jerome Favre

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today trained its guns on the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of "offering" Tibet to China "on a platter" and charging that the action had made the Communist nation a "direct threat" to India.

Fernandes: Critic of China's Tibet policy

Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes is in Beijing on a week-long official tour of China. The two Asian rivals will be reviewing relations that have been marred by a long-running border dispute and mutual distrust.

Showing remnants of the torture he endured as a political prisoner, Palden Gyatso — the second−longest serving political prisoner in Tibet — testified to Chinese human rights violations Friday before a crowd of about 100 students.

A Five member delegation from the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies will meet the ‘All party Indian parliamentary group for Tibet’ (APIPGT) on the 24th of April in Delhi. The Tibetan Assembly delegation is headed by the Vice-Chairperson Ms. Gyari Dolma.

Samdhong Rinpoche(AFP/File)