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Relics of the historical Buddha, his closest disciples and other Buddhist spiritual masters will be on display this weekend at Tara's Refuge, a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Mount Shasta.

Mr. Takna Jigme Sangpo arrived in Brussels on 6th March to start his first ever public talks on his 37 years of his experiences in Chinese prison. Mr. Takna was released on medical parole o on 31st march 2002 and now based in Switzerland

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Parikrama during their live performance in front of Tsuklakhang

The Concert for Tibet- Give peace a chance held on 2nd March was disrupted several times as a result of bad weather. The rock concert organized on the eve of Losar by the Rock Street Journal with support from Indo-Tibet Coordination Office

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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.