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Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to take part in extensive discussions beginning tomorrow with some of the world’s top scientists and philosophers on topics ranging from quantum physics to neuroscience to Buddhist and Western understanding of consciousness.

Honouring the calls made by Tibetan self-immolators for unity among the Tibetan people, hundreds of Tibetans in Tawu region of eastern Tibet have pledged not to indulge in any internal conflicts or in-fighting. A monastery in the Minyag Nagtren region of Tawu initiated the move, encouraging local Tibetans

In new military directives issued by the Chinese government for the year 2013, the largest army in the world has been told to prepare for war and bolster its ability to win a battle based on rigorous training on an actual combat basis.

A senior minister in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has pledged to raise the issue of Tibet in the Indian Parliament. Shivpal Singh Yadav, Minister of Public Works Department, made the pledge in a letter addressed to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama

One of the longest serving officials of the Tibetan government and a close aide of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ven. Tarha Tenzin Choenyi breathed his last in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala today. The Kashag and the Central Tibetan Administration expressed its “deep condolences”

In reports finally emerging, an elderly Tibetan woman apparently set herself on fire in China’s capital city of Beijing in September last. She is believed to have self-immolated in protest against illegal land grabbing by Chinese authorities in the Keygudo

In continuing crackdown on the spate of self-immolation protests in Tibet, Chinese authorities have arrested eight Tibetans, including a family member of a self-immolator, for sharing information with outsiders in the Luchu region of Kanlho, eastern Tibet.

Tibetan self-immolator Tsering Tashi’s body was forcibly cremated late Sunday night near his home town in Amchok after repeated threats and mounting pressure from local Chinese authorities. 22-year-old Tsering Tashi passed away in his self-immolation protest on January 12 in Amchok

A key player in New Delhi’s power politics and the ruling party in West Bengal, the All India Trinamool Congress Party, has pledged to support an ‘All-Party Parliamentary Resolution on the Tibet crisis.’ Indian Member of Parliament and Party Whip, Derek O’ Brein

An exhibition of 50 drawings as a tribute to the Tibetan self-immolations by Japanese artist Tomoyo Ihaya opened today in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala. The two-day exhibition titled ‘Blue Lotus’