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Thousands of Tibet supporters from across Europe will embark on Brussels this Sunday 9 March and demand that the European Union develops a constructive policy on Tibet. By forming a symbolic human Chain for Change in Tibet around the EU institutions

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.

Tibetan leader Dalai Lama greets people at Mcleod Ganj, 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 3, 2003. The three-day celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year begins Monday at Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

After starting off the new Tibetan Water Sheep Year 2130 in customary prayer and meditation Monday, the Dalai Lama quickly switched to glad rags and swayed to the music of India's leading rock band, Parikrama.

Young Buddhist girls perform a ritual dance inside a Buddhist shrine in front of their religious leader Dalai Lama at Mcleod Ganj, 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 3, 2003. The three-day celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year begins Monday at Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives. Photo by Rafiq Maqbool

Dr. Nancy Harris may be one of the few Bay Area residents who suffers from culture shock as result of her commute. Last week Harris, who lives half the year in Moss Beach, returned from Lhasa, Tibet, where she's been working as a physician in local communities since 1990.

On 28th February morning, a team of ten monks from Gyuto monastery based in Tenzingang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, arrived in Paris. Upon their arrival, Mr Bartabas, head of the Zingaro Theater, ARTE TV team and Wangpo Bashi, Secretary of the Bureau du Tibet, welcomed the monks.

Tony Blair faced the anger of human rights activists last night for secretly planning a trade mission to China. He has claimed the moral case for going to war with Iraq is to stop Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses.

Gomo Tulku lives in a monastery in southern India, where debating is an essential feature of his education. (Tom Smart/Deseret News)

He is 14 now — or much older if you count all 23 lifetimes. He is sitting cross-legged on a daybed in the prayer room of his mother's house in Bountiful. Behind him, on the wall, is a photograph of his most previous lifetime, a man named Gomo Tulku.