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Young Buddhist children look at Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, left, during a prayer meeting at Sarnath in Varanasi, India, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2003. Dalai Lama is on a three-day tour to Sarnath, the traditional northern India site of the Buddhas first teaching in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Even for Tibetan monks, it was too cold on Tuesday. Severe, icy wind made the air feel much colder than the recorded temperature of 1°C at Sarnath, the traditional northern India site of the Buddha's first teaching, and the Dalai Lama told followers to cover their heads.

In a tape-recorded message smuggled out of his Chinese jail, an influential Tibetan monk sentenced to death in December insists he had nothing to do with a series of bomb blasts in western China, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

A quasi-official organization was inaugurated in Taipei yesterday to help boost Taiwan's engagement with the Tibetan government-in-exile.

An international coalition of Tibet groups has received information indicating that an additional ten Tibetan men were arrested in connection with popular Buddhist leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and attendant Lobsang Dhondup

A Tibetan monk given a suspended death sentence for a series of bomb attacks promoting independence has protested his innocence in a taped message from jail, Radio Free Asia said on Wednesday.

Taiwan-Tibet ties were strengthened yesterday when President Chen Shui-bian met with Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha, chairman of the Tibet Religious Foundation of the Dalai Lama, to discuss a third visit by the Dalai Lama late this year.

Pro-Tibet activists have called for more Indian pressure on China to release two Tibetans facing execution for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts.

A Chinese official confirmed Wednesday that China has sentenced three more Tibetans to prison, in a case that prompted an international outcry last month when another Tibetan was sentenced to death.

The 28th Kalachakra puja came to an end this morning with a long life puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His Holiness conferred a long life empowerment to the devotees. Referring to Bodh Gaya as the most sacred place for the Buddhists