Jyoti Malhotra, India Today | July 2, 2015
The Dalai Lama is making overtures to Beijing even as China seems to be hardening its stand
Sometime in the mid-1950s, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, met the young Dalai Lama of Tibet in Peking, and the two became friends.
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DHARAMSALA, July 3: A postage stamp will be made available in Germany to honour the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and to celebrate his 80th birthday.
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Dallas, Texas, USA, 1 July 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Dallas yesterday at the end of a long flight from Britain. Today, despite weather forecasts giving flood warnings, the sun shone brightly in a deep blue sky and the air was warm as he drove to the George W Bush Presidential Center. He was received by Amanda Shnetzer, Director of Human Freedom, George Bush Institute.
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DHARAMSALA, July 2: China has sentenced three Tibetan businessmen from restive Driru county in Traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) to eight years each in prison and a poet from the same county to seven years in prison in May this year.
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[dalailama.com] Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, 28 June 2015: It was raining when the helicopter carrying His Holiness the Dalai Lama from London landed on a high field near the village of Pilton, site of the Glastonbury Festival.
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DHARAMSALA, JUN 27: Forcing Tibetan political prisoners to vilify their spiritual leader and root lamas in prison can be termed “Torture with Tibetan characteristics”, said Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy(TCHRD), the Dharamsala-based Tibetan rights group at an event held on Jun 26 to observe the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
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[TNN] CHENNAI, Jun 23: If you are in possession of currency notes printed before 2005 — identifiable as they do not mention year of printing on the reverse — you only have a little over a week to go to your nearest bank branch to exchange such currency notes for their full value.
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DHARAMSALA, Jun 23: The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh yesterday renamed the 2.5 Km road stretching from Mcleod Ganj to Dharamsala via Gangchen Kyishong, the headquarters of the Tibetan Administration as Potala Road.
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[PTI] DHARAMSALA, Jun 22: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today took part in celebrations marking the 80th birthday of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at Mecleodganj here.
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DHARAMSALA, June 22: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama said he will remain healthy at least for another 20 years as thousands of Tibetans and supporters gathered at Thekchen Choeling Tsug-lag-khang, the main temple in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala on Jun 21 to attend his 80th birthday celebrations.
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