Top of the Curve

Long ago, Tenzin Yangchen Dera figured she would wind up like most Tibetan girls in India. She would drop out of boarding school, weave carpets and marry by 25, living the rest of her life with her husband’s family.

Top of the Curve

Tenzin Tangchen Dera, 18, is graduating today from the New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics. She is one of five students in the school’s first graduating class and will attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. – Kathy De La Torre | The New Mexican

Nepal hands over Tibetan refugees to Chinese officials

A Tibetan woman is dragged away by Nepalese police after throwing herself in front of a bus of carrying deportees to the border with China, in Kathmandu, May 31, 2003. Nepal deported 18 Tibetans to China on Saturday, the biggest group to be sent back for several years, bringing a strong rebuke from the United Nations refugee agency. (REUTERS/Nick Dawson)

Dalai Lama’s No. 2 here to meet devotees

As a young monk, he studied Buddhist scriptures with the Dalai Lama. In 1959, he fled to India with Tibet’s spiritual and political leader, after China occupied the country.