Tibetans in Nepal celebrates Dalai Lama’s 68th birthday

Attempts by Nepalese Police to enforce a ban on Tibetan celebrations of the Dalai Lama’s 68th birthday in Kathmandu were abandonned today amid cheers and revelry after hundreds of Tibetans defied the government order and gathered at the stupa in Boudha

Nepal Bans July 6 Celebrations of Dalai Lama’s Birthday

Tibetan Lamas and monks carry a portrait of the Dalai Lama during celebrations to mark his 68th birthday in Sydney, Sunday, July 6, 2003. Tibetans and others all over the world celebrate their spiritual leaders’ birthday although such celebrations are forbidden in Tibet. (AP/Photo by Dan Peled)

On the high road to Lhasa

Nathula. 1954. A cold morning. Motilal Lakhotia and Dip Chand Agarwal leave for Yatung, a trade post across the border in Tibet with their modest cargo. Their mode of travel? Mules — a mule track is all there is for the 52-km journey from Gangtok to Nathula, and onwards to Lhasa

How do you say Tikkun Olam in Tibetan?

Six of the counselors on Zionist youth movement summer camps in Britain this year will be Tibetans. Hailing from Dharamsala, Northern India, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered

Museum series brings art to life

Bringing Tibet to San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum at Civic Center kicked off its AsiaAlive program, an interactive series of exhibits unlike any other in the nation. To celebrate this month’s theme, “Auspicious Beginnings: The Arts of the Himalayas,”

Alive and kicking

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to China has once again brought Tibet on to the centrestage of Asian politics. On the one hand, the Chinese are claiming to have succeeded in getting India to recognise