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Nobel laureate Dalai Lama blesses a child during a meeting with Tibetan refugees in Guwahati on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual head, in the city on his way to the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh

The Central Tibetan Administration is saddened to report the passing away of Lamo Tsangpa’s medium, Tsewang Namgyal. He took his last breath in the early hours of 24th April at the PGI Hospital in Chandigarh.

Fear of catching the deadly SARS virus has reached the mountain dwelling of the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan followers, who have been advised by traditional medicine practitioners to carry a small red pill and sniff it to ward off the disease.

The Tibetan government-in-exile here said on Saturday that it was not expecting defence minister of India George Fernandes, currently on tour to China, to take up the issue of Tibet with the Chinese authorities.

Approximately 30 people - including several representatives from UCSB's chapter of Students for a Free Tibet - gathered outside the Chinese Consulate on Friday. The students were recognizing the 14th birthday of the Buddhist Panchen Lama

A Tibetan woman listens to the Dalai Lama speak on "Connecting to the Guru" at the launch of Rajiv Mehrotra's book, The Mind of the Guru, in New Delhi, on Sunday, April 27, 2003. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

Delhiites who turned up at the India Habitat Centre today received a dose of quintessential Dalai Lama humour. The Dalai Lama, who was in Delhi to release Rajiv Mehrotra’s The Mind of the Guru, said that his relationship with the Capital

According to a reliable source, Tsering Dhondup is reportedly in a critical health condition. Tsering Dhondup, head of Othok Village in Nyakchuka County, Karze “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” (TAP) Sichuan Province is one of four

Tour groups are to be banned from visiting Tibet and other central and western rural areas in China to prevent the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.