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Tibetans in Dharamsala welcomed the water sheep year with warm greetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His Holiness gave a public audience in front of Tsuglakhang (main cathedral) in the morning of 3rd March at around 9.30 after the official and religious ceremonies were over.

SURVIVORS : Buddhist nuns Dhoeying Kusang, left, and Passang Lhamo were tortured in prison for five years for protesting Chinese rule in Tibet.

Tibetan nuns Choeying Kusang and Passang Lhamo experienced first-hand the horrors of prison and torture in their campaign to wrest Tibet's freedom from China.

At the end of Martin Scorsese's film Kundun, Chinese military forces move into position at the outskirts of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and begin the slaughter of the Tibetan fighters valiantly trying to reclaim their country from Chinese occupation.

Bharat Jagaran Yatra jointly organised by Tibetan Youth Congress and Bharat-Tibbat Sahyog Manch that was started on 1st March 2003 from the different parts of India is on a massive awareness campaign among the Indian people.

For the Tibetans and all who reside in the high Himalayas, the new year has just begun with 'Lhosar' which was celebrated from March 3 to 5. On the last day of the festivities, the Boudhanath stupa was visited by a great crowd

Tibet’s first Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche has many responsibilities, though he is exile. Living in Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, in Himachal Pradesh, he was elected in March 2001.

Hundreds of Tibetans, who had fled their Chinese occupied homeland more than four decades ago, today celebrated Losar (Lo means year and Sar stands for new), with traditional fervour and gaiety in the Darjeeling hills and neighbouring Sikkim.

Uprising Day is a significant day that commemorates the memory of 89,000 Tibetans who were killed in Lhasa in 1959. Today China's continued occupation of Tibet, with the help of several hundred thousand troops

Leaders of the Tibetan Youth Congress and the Indo-Tibetan Sahyog Manch today exhorted elected representatives all over India to take up the issue of the freedom of Tibet in state Assemblies and Parliament.