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TIBET, TIBET—A PERSONAL HISTORY OF A LOST LAND by Patrick French HARPERCOLLINS PAGES: 333

A Buddhist leader speaking at today's World Peace Forum in Sydney says the violence at this week's student anti-war rallies shows the widespread confusion over the concept of peace.

A Tibetan nun who was China's longest-serving female political prisoner traveled to the United States Friday, a U.S.-based activist said. Ngawang Sangdrol flew to the United States accompanied by a U.S. diplomat, said John Kamm

Switzerland could be the venue for dialogue between China and Tibet, a Swiss MP has said. "Time has come that there should be a substantial dialogue between the Dalai Lama and China.

Takna Jigme Sangpo, one of the most determined and well known human rights defenders in Tibet, will testify at the 59th UN Commission on Human Rights at the invitation of Dutch-based International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)

This file photograph shows Buddhist nun Ngawang Sangdrol and her niece in Tibet's capital Lhasa after her release Drapchi Prison.(AFP/File)

The release of the longest-held female Tibetan prisoner could signal a change in policy by the Chinese government and a new willingness to engage exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in dialogue, a leading rights campaigner said.

Ngawang Sangdrol, one of Tibet's most famous political prisoners, arrived in the United States today five months after her parole from Lhasa's Drapchi prison. At age 26, Sangdrol had already served 11 years in prison.

Ngawang Sangdrol holds up a picture of the Dalai Lama after arriving in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ICT)

The Central Tibetan Administration welcomes the Chinese authorities' permission for Ngawang Sangdrol to fly to the United States for medical treatment. She arrived in Chicago on 28 March.