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With the inauguration of Songsten Library by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama another valuable chapter has been added to Doon’s fabled Tibetan connection. In his inaugural address the Dalai Lama highlighted the suffering and misfortune of

Actress Drew Barrymore reads a message about peace from the Dalai Lama at the Global Vision for Peace party in Los Angeles, March 20, 2003. The group is a coalition of peace and human rights leaders and concerned individuals that use the global reach of media to further the message of peace. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser )

About 1,000 anti-war protesters demonstrated outside the West Los Angeles Federal Building on Thursday, briefly clashing with police, burning an American flag and forcing the closure of one of the city's busiest intersections at rush hour. At least 14 were arrested.

Top: Climbers Jimmy Chin, Rick Ridgeway, and Conrad Anker haul a custom-built aluminum rickshah through a narrow gorge on China's remote Chang Tang Plateau. The expedition team used rickshahs to transport 30-day supplies of provisions during their month-long trek; Bottom: A newborn chiru calf. Conservationists hope to sway the Chinese government to expand nature preserves to protect the key Tibetan antelope calving ground. (Photographs copyright Galen Rowell, National Geographic Society)

Four mountaineers traversing the high steppes of northern Tibet have succeeded in their quest to locate the key calving ground of the chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope imperiled by poaching. Commercial poachers have devastated chiru

By making the most of the ongoing religious teachings which has attracted a large number of people to this Himalayan town. ‘Gyal Shyen Lhaen zom’ (Forum for discussing current Tibetan issues) is organizing a parallel program, but on a different subject.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama believes that unless people change their attitude and realise the ultimate futility of war and the use of force in solving our problems, it is difficult to expect the world to be peaceful and free of violence.

Despite China's five-decade occupation of Tibet, the centuries-old spiritual and cultural traditions of the country sometimes referred to as the Rooftop of World have managed to endure to the present day.

Narayan Shrestha has made his home in Boulder after leaving a small village in Nepal in the late 1970s. (Cliff Grassmick)

Driving past Hedgerow Farm or seeing the snowcapped Rockies reminds Tamding Wangdu of the pastoral lifestyle he left behind a decade ago this May when he became part of a resettlement that brought more than 20 Tibetans to Boulder.