Dalai Lama Arrives in Southern Russia&#39;s Buddhist Region
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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.
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The 26-year-old, Oxford-educated king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan made his debut on the world stage on Wednesday with the start of an official visit to India, his country's giant neighbor.
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BANGALORE: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Bangalore on Saturday evening on a 21-hour visit during which he will interact with Indian IT honchos on the country&#39;s emergence as a major tech power.
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The boy named by the Chinese authorities as the 11th Panchen Lama visits a temple in Tibet.
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A senior German politician visiting India on an official trip has met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in spite of New Delhi's deep reservations about such contacts, officials said.
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Russia&#39;s president, on a state visit to India, arrived in Bangalore Saturday to talk with the area&#39;s information technology executives.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the Dalai Lama for a meeting on Sunday despite opposition from China.
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The Dalai Lama asks China to show clemency in the case of a Tibetan monk accused of bombings.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Dalai Lama in Berlin on Sunday, knowing full well that it would infuriate Beijing. The German press welcomes her firm stance on human rights issues and plays down any long-term damage to relations between Germany and China. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader spent an hour with the chancellor in what were described as private and informal talks. After the meeting Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said that she had assured the Dalai Lama of "her support in his efforts to maintain the cultural identity of Tibet and in his policy of non-violent striving toward religious and cultural autonomy." There have been concerns, particularly among German businesspeople with interests in China that Sunday's meeting could damage Berlin-Beijing relations. China's Foreign Ministry had called in Germany's ambassador to Beijing earlier this month to protest the impending visit and China cancelled a two-day meeting scheduled for this weekend on legal issues with German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries citing "technical reasons." The German press on Monday played down the risk of any long-term damage to relations with Beijing and praises the chancellor for her emphasis on human rights in her foreign policy.
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Chinese authorities detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said Wednesday.
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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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After denying the Dalai Lama&#39;s visa requests for years, Russia has finally relented and allowed the Buddhist spiritual leader to visit the country.
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Russia said on Friday that it would give the Dalai Lama a visa, the first it has given the Buddhist leader in a decade, but rushed to reassure China it was not supporting his demands for Tibetan autonomy.
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Tibet's second-holiest monk, the Panchen  Lama, has visited Lhasa on a rare trip to the Himalayan region  by the living Buddha, whose selection in 1995 was marred by  controversy after the exiled Dalai Lama chose another boy.
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President Bush, raising Beijing's ire, presented the Dalai Lama on Wednesday with the U.S. Congress' highest civilian honor and urged Chinese leaders to welcome the monk to Beijing.
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It is 45 years since Tibet's god-king, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland on horseback as Chinese shells rained down on his capital. Many Tibetans do not expect to see him again, or not in his current incarnation.
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MOSCOW: A spokesman for the Tibetan exile government in India said yesterday that Russia has issued the Dalai Lama a visa to visit Buddhists in its Kalmykia region and that he could make the trip as early as tomorrow.