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Amid threats and allegations of spying and sacrilege, the Dalai Lama led Tibetan Buddhists' highest worship ceremony on Sunday, calling for the rejection of materialism, greed and violence.

Even as the Dalai Lama spoke of world peace through ahimsa at the inaugural session of the nine-day Kalchakra Puja here, thousands of Tibetan refugees raised free-Tibet slogans outside.

The Dalai Lama conducting the Kalchakra prayers

More than 100,000 Buddhists have gathered for the Kalchakra festival at Bodhgaya in the northern Indian state of Bihar. The festival was opened by the Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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The tale of the CIA's involvement in Tibet has all the ingredients of a great thriller, including a grimly ironic outcome for most of the participants. In the early afternoon of April 29, 1950

'The supreme moments of travel are born of beauty and strangeness in equal parts," Robert Byron wrote. In Gyantse, Tibet, he found beauty, strangeness -- and pleasure.

Bihar's decision not to display the Buddha's ashes at their religion's birthplace has disappointed thousands of Buddhist pilgrims.

From above, it looks like waves of saffron around a splash of maroon and yellow. Get closer and you walk into a mini "southeast" Asia where more than 50 stalls are dishing out Thai, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malaysian and Chinese cuisine.

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