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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.

Many of my non-Tibetan friends get quite disappointed when I say that I don't do prayers, prostrations and other rituals. They wanted me, not only me, all Tibetans to be staunchly Buddhists; wearing a rosary around our neck

My mother, Lodey Lhawang (née Tethong) passed away, very peacefully, on the morning of January 9, at my home in Monteagle, Tennessee. Her daughter Rigzin Dolkar, daughter-in-law Tenzing Chounzom, grand daughters Namkha Lhamo and Namtso Kyi, and myself were at her side.

Tibetan medicine has become a lucrative business yielding million-dollar profits to large pharmaceutical companies in China. Various new policies have been instituted to standardize the production and distribution of Tibetan medicinal products, mainly for commercial and bureaucratic reasons.

Behind one such closed door, in front of the stunned and staring eyes of my classmates, our teacher demanded from me a recitation of the poem we were told to learn by heart the previous day. My poor memory could retain only the first few lines, and then I went blank.

My introduction to a Tibetan community in the West happened four years ago in Berkeley, California. The occasion was the birth anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the church, which doubled that evening as the celebratory venue, throbbed with precious jubilation.

A prominent part of Mcleod Gunj, Dharamsala, was gutted by a fire two days ago. Luckily, no lives were lost; but the blaze that was subdued all too late left forever scarred and altered a small town