China spares Tibetan monk
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China commutes a death penalty for prominent Tibetan monk Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche to life imprisonment.
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Russia says it is granting a visa to the Tibetan exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, despite pressure from China.
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Chinese authorities have been forcing Tibetans to sign a petition opposing the Dalai Lama's return, a London-based group said, in apparent retaliation for the award of a high U.S. honor to Tibet's spiritual leader.
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Militant Buddhist monks in Myanmar who had taken about 20 officials hostage in a monastery freed them after intervention by a senior abbot, said a senior monk.
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With the death of Zhao Ziyang on Monday, China has lost one of the few senior political voices who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as its most famous political prisoner.
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The chances of Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama returning to the Chinese-ruled territory are slim, the chairman of the Himalayan region said on Thursday, accusing him of still promoting Tibetan independence.
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The Chinese are ecstatic over newly discovered mineral deposits. But they are in Tibet, where the ecology is fragile and human rights even more so
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GONGSHAN, China  - When China's communist army razed his church, Jesse's grandfather climbed into the forests stacked up above his valley and carved a hole in the trunk of a tree to hide his bible.
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He confirms Chinese are diluting traditional Buddhist culture and the monks' role.
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Days after China bound itself  closer to Tibet with a new railway, a senior official accused  the Dalai Lama, the region&#039;s exiled spiritual leader, of  seeking to split China and play politics with religion.
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LHASA, China  - In the dusty bowels of the Tibet  capital's huge Potala Palace, a handful of laborers slowly chip  away at ancient plaster holding together the 13-story  building's crumbling foundations.
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, went ahead with an informal meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama yesterday, despite China cancelling a meeting between a German minister and Chinese officials in an apparent expression of disapproval.
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A leader of China's underground Protestant church has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for distributing Bibles and other religious literature without a business license, an overseas monitoring group said Sunday.
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CHAGMALAI, Pakistan - One of two Chinese engineers abducted near the Afghan border was free on Friday but his colleague was dead after Pakistani commandos attacked the kidnappers, killing all five of the Al Qaeda -linked militants from a cell led by a
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China plans to release a prominent imprisoned dissident this week, cutting short his sentence in an apparent "conciliatory gesture" by the government of President Hu Jintao, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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Hindu monks make a last ditch attempt to save their "sacred" bullock, which faces slaughter after a positive TB test.
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Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims gathered at a temple in southern Russia Tuesday to join prayers led by the Dalai Lama, who has been allowed in the country for the first time in more than 12 years.