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Friends of Nature, the first officially recognized environmental non-governmental organization in China, has expelled prominent Chinese writer Wang Lixiong. That was done under pressure of Chinese authorities who threatened to withdraw Friends of Nature’s registration if otherwise.

Hundreds sought out peaceful Buddhist karma when Tibetan monks visited Savannah last month. The crowds hunted for harmony and healing. Hundreds found it watching Tibetan monks silently craft a sand painting in a downtown museum.

Sometime around 600 A.D., the legend goes, King Ligmagya of Zhang Zhung married Semokar, sister of ambitious Tibetan leader Songsten Gampo. It was a classic union of state, intended to rid Ligmagya of a potential rival by co-opting him.

Novelist Eliot Pattison really knows how to spin a story. He also wants you to sympathize with the plight of Tibetans, which is not difficult to do. "Bone Mountain," Pattison's third novel set in Tibet, is categorized as a mystery, but it's also very much a vehicle to espouse a cause, with little attempt at subtlety.

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Tibetan monks of Gaden Shartse will be in Klamath Falls Friday through Sunday for a series of programs at Oregon Institute of Technology and other Klamath Falls sites.

A chance meeting will result in a series of weekend "chants" meetings. Last summer, Coralee Whitsett, who raises yaks and is promoting a Tibetan Conservancy for Nomadic Culture & Yak, was displaying her animals at a Tibetan festival.

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India's remote northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh urged the federal government to improve infrastructure along the border with China to meet any security threat from its neighbour.

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