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His Holiness the Dalai Lama began a three-day teaching on Je Tsongkhapa's “The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment” (Lamrim Chenpo) at the request of Korean devotees

His Holiness the Dalai Lama greets devotees as he arrives at Tsug-la-khang, the main temple on the first day of the three-day teaching, here in Dharamshala, India, August 30, 2011. The teachings on "Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life", requested by a group of Southeast Asians, will end on September 1. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Mcleod Ganj, his exile home for the past 51 years in India, Aug 25, 2011. The Tibetan spiritual leader returns after a five-nation European tour including France, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland and Germany. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

Tibetans and supporters in Dharamshala carried a candle-light vigil to express solidarity with Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Kunchok from Kirti Monastery in Tibet who set themselves ablaze protesting China's rule over Tibet . The vigil was jointly organised by Regional Tibetan Youth Congress and Regional Tibetan Women's Association. September, 26 2011. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

At a time when Tibetans in Tibet continue to torch their bodies, demanding freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile, an award-winning documentary on the Tibetan struggle for freedom

Under the banner of the Tibetan Centre for Conflict Resolution (TCCR) and the Dharamshala Tibetan Settlement Office, around thirty heads of different Indian and Tibetan organisations, representing the two communities in Dharamshala

Joining the Tibet Solidarity Movement in honour of the nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire this year following Chinese clampdown in the eastern Tibetan region of Ngaba, hundreds of Tibetans

Two more monks have been arrested in the distraught Ngaba region of eastern Tibet as Chinese Foreign Ministry told reporters that local authorities will take “tough measures”

Over 3000 Tibetans from all over Indian and Nepal marched from Rajghat, Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial site to the Jantar Mantar in the nations capital under the banner of the Tibet Solidarity Movement today.

“Large groups of soldiers in camouflage carried automatic rifles, metal rods with spiked tips and fire extinguishers, while police buses, trucks and armoured personnel carriers blocked the streets.”