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At a press briefing this evening, the DM expressed his displeasure on the news item published by UNI headlined as "Attack on Karmapa aborted", which is completely untrue.

The death sentences passed on two respected Tibetans, Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup on Dec 3, 2002 by a court in western China’s Sichuan province shocked the Tibetans all over and the international community.

The Dalai Lama greets worhsippers behind the bullet-proof glass of his vehicle after prayers at a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya in the Indian state of Bihar Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Massive police deployment has been made for the forthcoming Kalchakra pooja and to ensure the safety of both the Dalai Lama and Karmapa, the two high risk Buddhist spiritual leaders now in Bodh Gaya for the performance of the complex

Hundreds of monks and followers gathered Wednesday to welcome the 17-year-old Tibetan high lama called the Karmapa on his arrival in this northern Indian town of Buddhist ruins.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama today visited the Buddhist monastries of Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, China and Vietnam here today.

Barely three days before the sacred Kalchakra puja, a group of 12 neo-Buddhists today began a fast-unto-death near the Mahabodhi temple here against the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's alleged pro-China bias.

Buddhist Monks walk behind a statue of Lord Buddha during the Kalachakra Buddhist festival in Bodh Gaya. (AP photo)

More than 5000 Buddhists from Sikkim have reached Bihar's Bodhgaya to attend the 'Kalachakra' ceremony to be conducted by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama from January 12.

Keeping the Buddhist spirit alive, the Tibetan victims of the last Monday night's fire that gutted the city's famous Lhasa Market in its entirety, said on Wednesday that they would not bother the Dalai Lama with their problems since