Prayers for Panchen Lama's release mark 'International Tibet S...

World(tags: China, Tibet, freedoms, politics, world, UnitedNations, humanrights ) - 18 minutes ago - secure3.convio.net The Panchen Lama, one of Tibet's highest spiritual and cultural leaders, will turn 24 years old on April 25, 2013. For almost two ...

Exiled Tibetans released a documentary film here, hailing the contribution of 10th Panchen Lama, Lobsang Lhundrup Choekyi Gyaltsen.

BEIJING - China's top political advisor on Friday met the 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, a spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese ...

BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, held a prayer meeting on Tuesday at Yonghegong, or the Lama Temple, in downtown Beijing for victims and survivors of Lushan County's 7.0-magnitude earthquake. The ...

marks the 24th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima who was taken into Chinese custody on 17 May 1995 at age six. He has not been seen in public ever since. Below is an article published by the International Campaign for Tibet : ...

Tashilhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447 by the First Dalai Lama, is one of the Big Six Monasteries of the Gelug sect of Buddhism in Tibet. Also called the Heap of Glory, the monastery covers nearly 300,000 square meters in Shigatse, Tibet's ...

missing for the past 18 years, Tibetan activists captivated the hill town with mass vigils. Tourists, commuters and passersby were asked to call the Chinese embassy and inquire about the whereabouts of Panchen Lama. They demanded release of 11th ...

South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles. Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok says the North fired two missiles this morning and another in ...

Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna reached the semifinals of the Rome Masters after getting a walkover from rivals Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek even as Sania Mizra and Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out of the women's event, here. Berdych, who ...