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The organizers of a Toronto visit from the Dalai Lama next year are seeking $1-million from the city and the province to support an event expected to draw 10,000 people. The request was made yesterday when a spokesman for the Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario

Chinese authorities have tapped two new leaders of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) government and could install them at any time, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has learned. The change appears to be aimed at handing control of Tibet to officials

Revitalizing energy: Visiting Buddhist monks will conduct a Cham ceremony, the first in mid-Michigan, to revitalize spiritual energies. Seven Tibetan monks will visit to raise awareness of their imprisoned religious leader. (Photo courtesy of MSU Students for a Free Tibet)

The sight of seven meditating men clothed in robes may surprise Capitol passers-by on Friday. Tibetan monks from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India will lead a World Peace Meditation from noon to 1 p.m. at the statehouse in downtown Lansing as part of a 2002-03 North American tour.

The sister-in-law of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, will be in town next week to speak at a fundraiser. The event will focus on the plight of Tibetan nuns who have fled persecution in their homeland.

Photo: www.TibetanYouth.org

The Second International Congress on Tibetan Medicine, Practicing the Art of the Medicine Buddha in the West: from Tradition to Evidence, Research and Practical Applications (ICTM-2) will take place November 5 - 8, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency in Washington DC, USA.

The beginning of the Trans-America Run for Dignity and Human Rights at the mouth of the Golden Gate Bridge

Gardnerville, Nevada - A run across the contintental United States kicked off in San Francisco last Saturday as the Relief Alliance and the Tibetan Association of Northern California marched together from the Golden Gate Bridge to Pier 39

Sakya Trizin brings blessings for temples and children. (Photo by JASON SOUTH)