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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tibetans here and around the world this weekend will be chanting, praying and meditating to rid themselves of negativity for the coming year. Then on Monday they will celebrate the Tibetan New Year.

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The Dalai Lama of Tibet will return to Bloomington on Sept. 7 and 8 to dedicate a new interfaith temple at the Tibetan Cultural Center south of the city.