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His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

With the death on March 26, 2003, of former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan at age 76, the Tibetan people lost a good and steadfast friend. "Senator Moynihan was a great friend of the Tibetan people and during his tenure on the Foreign Relations Committee expressed his support

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One of the Tibet's most defiant and prominent political prisoners, Ngawang Sangdrol, says that she is lucky to be released from the Drapche prison in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, and to arrive in the Untied States, a land of freedom. She says, "I really feel free now."

Divorcing Tibet from politics is like trying to breathe without using your lungs; with the Chinese government exiling the Dalai Lama, prohibiting access and systematically erasing the culture, it is an issue you have to deliberately neglect.

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The Chinese Tibetan Medicine Database Series, jointly developed by the Environmental Science Information Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Nuodi Tibetan Medicine Research Association under the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology

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The annual Shoton carnival began yesterday amid much fanfare at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, which was established in the sixties to preserve and promote the unique performing arts of Tibetan culture.

Though top government leaders have indicated that they will meet with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama during his visit to Denmark in June, the government will not support the Tibetan government's request for a special EU representative for the region.