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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, walks out for a prayer meeting in Dharamsala, India, Tuesday. - AP | Angus McDonald

The Dalai Lama on Tuesday led Tibetans in prayers aimed at minimizing suffering if war comes to Iraq. Speaking in Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama said a U.S.-led attack was all but inevitable.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that differences in opinion must be resolved through dialogue and discussion rather than settling them by waging wars. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said wars produce temporary victors and temporary losers

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a pressure group, today renewed its demand for the immediate release of the 11-year-old boy-monk Gedhum Choekyi Nyima.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, today urged China to address the issue of autonomy for his nation, warning that the problem could soon become insoluble. The Dalai Lama made his appeal on the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan national uprising against Beijing's annexation of the once independent Himalayan country.

Tibetans, living in exile in India, shout anti-China slogans while carrying a picture of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, during a protest in Chandigarh March 10, 2003. The rally was organized on the last day of a ten-day long march from Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives, to create awareness among the Indian masses about Tibetan problems and China's policy towards Tibet. REUTERS/Ajay Verma

In a subdued speech, the Dalai Lama criticized China's human rights policy but praised Beijing for some positive developments as his supporters staged protests to mark the anniversary of Tibetans' failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.

On the occasion of March 10, Today the members of the Regional Tibet Youth Congress (RTYC) and Regional Tibetan Freedom Movement (RTFM) organized a peace March from Punjab University, which finally concluded at Sector 17 Plaza

A Tibetan student waves a Tibetan flag while demanding 'Freedom for Tibet,' during a demonstration in Bombay, March 10, 2003. More than 50 Tibetans participated in the demonstration to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan national uprising against Chinese rule. REUTERS/Roy Madhur

“I am Tibetan. But I am not from Tibet. Never been there, yet I dream of dying there”—an excerpt from Tenzin Tsundue’s book of poems, Kora. To mark the occasion of the 44th Tibetan National Uprising Day