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Tibet means Dalai Lama and that teenager who escaped from Tibet we saw on TV Karmapa? Tibet is Kailash Manasarover; hey, why can't we go to our Kailash Parvath, our Shiv-ji's abode? Who are these Chinky people? Nepalis?

I was in Europe this month to receive an award from the Geuzen Resistance 1940-1945 Foundation on behalf of the International Campaign for Tibet.

When Tibetan World invited me to write something for the magazine I thought of talking about things that will provoke my fellow Tibetans to introspect and to take stock of their situation before venturing to face the world.

With every passing year the official 10 th March statements gets progressively more disheartening and defeatist. In this year's Kashag statement, Samdhong Rimpoche calls on the public to participate in prayers and "merit-accumulating activities" to get the Chinese talk to us.

With every passing year the official 10 th March statements gets progressively more disheartening and defeatist.

Travel in India can fill me with a strange type of euphoric dread. My trip from Delhi to Dharmashala, then, had the theoretic advantage of taking place at night. Except, of course, if you don't medicate yourself, the chances of sleep are similar to the chances of winning big on your next lotto ticket.

On March 10 every year, Tibetans everywhere commemorate their National Uprising Day. It was on this day in 1959 that China’s People’s Liberation Army brutally crushed the last of popular Tibetan uprisings against Chinese occupation

This is a shorten copy of a presentation given at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa by Mr. Renato Palmi. Durban, South Africa will be hosting in June 2005 a conference on HIV/AIDS.

Tibet had pockets of Muslims entrenched within its borders, although there is no documentary evidence on how they first came to settle there. In fact, information on Tibetan Muslims is scarce.

Tibet electrifies people's imagination with images of exotic people who once dwelled in a "Shangri-la" world. True, Tibet is spiritually distinct, yet it is also a country that has witnessed tremendous upheavals in the wake of invasion by the forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.