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Around 2,000 protestors are due

As campaigners mark Free Tibet Day on Saturday by marching through London and demanding the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair raise the issue of Tibet when he visits China next month, BBC News Online talks to an exile.

Sacred Buddhist relics will be on display Saturday and Sunday.

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.

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.