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On the eve of the G20 Summit, Dharamshala, the nerve centre of Tibetan freedom movement in exile joined the ongoing global campaign, making an urgent call to world leaders to exert multilateral pressure on Chinese President Hu Jintao to ease tensions in Tibet.

One could hear a pin drop in the Koyasan University auditorium packed with over a thousand Japanese disciples this afternoon. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, while bestowing the Vajra Dhatu (Tib: Dorying) empowerment, had told the audience to meditate on nurturing Bodhichitta

After a spate of self-immolations inside Tibet, more than 200 Chinese intellectuals and independent writers from outside China as well as some from inside China have launched a signature campaign, condemning the Chinese repressive policies in Tibet.

61 Tibetan refugees including the President of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) Kathmandu, Tsewang Dolma, General Secretary Yeshi Dolma and executive members of RTYC Pokhara were arrested from Machhindra Park in Lalitpur and detained at the local police station

With the G-20 summit scheduled to begin in the next few days, a group of German Parliamentarians urged Chancellor Angela Merkel to raise the Tibetan issue during the summit. The three German Parliamentarians – Mrs. Sabine Weiss MP (CDU), Mr. Harald Leibrecht, MP (FDP)

Before beginning a hectic daylong schedule of preparations and preliminary teachings on the Vajra Dhatu initiation (Tib: Dorying), His Holiness the Dalai Lama took an early morning break from schedule for a short pilgrimage to Okuno-in, the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi.

Citing reasons for children’s better education, one out of seven young millionaires in China considers emigration, according to a recent survey. The 40-page report, released by the Bank of China and the Hurun Research Institute, revealed that 14% of Chinese millionaires

A group of Tibetans in Sydney, Australia will be fasting outside the Chinese consulate to join the Tibetan global day of action on 2nd November. The group in a press release said that the series of self-immolations inside Tibet in recent months speaks of unbearable plight

The New Delhi based Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) said China might attack India in the near future. "China's aim could be to teach India a lesson so as to influence India's rise before its capacity building underway acquires traction,"

On the second leg of his ongoing visit to Japan, His Holiness the Dalai Lama today arrived at the small temple town of Koyasan, the centre of Shingon Buddhism introduced by Kobo Dashi in 805. Arriving by car from the port city of Osaka