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The Dalai Lama said Thursday that international pressure and rapid changes within China will eventually force Beijing to grant autonomy to Tibet. "Autonomy to Tibet under the Chinese constitution has to come sooner or later,"

The Hopp Museum collection has shown two significant exhibitions of Tibetan art in the last 10 years. The Lamaista Sculpture exhibition had great success in 1990, showing small statues.

Tibetans will launch a fresh protest against China if Beijing does not make efforts for dialogue by June, Tibet's prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche said Tuesday.

On January 20th 2003 His Holiness the Dalai-lama announced in BodhGaya at the conclusion of the Kalachakra empowerment the appointment of Khensur Lungri Namgyel rinpoche as the 101th Ganden Tripa.

Three Tibetan refugees arrested in Nepal in December while attempting to transit to India were each given three year jail sentences by a Nepalese court on January 8, 2003. The three new prisoners, including two teenagers, join at least ten other Tibetans who remain incarcerated in Kathmandu for immigration violations.

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