Dalai Lama is undisputed leader, Tibetans tell China

October 3rd, 2009 SYDNEY - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was Saturday accused of kowtowing to China over his decision not to meet the Dalai Lama when the exiled Tibetan leader visits Australia in December. Rudd braved Beijing's displeasure and met the Dalai Lama in 2007 when he was leader of the opposition Labour Party but has kept him at bay since taking office after the November 2007 election.

September 9th, 2009 Dalai Lama receives human rights awardBRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The Dalai Lama received an international award on Wednesday for his promotion of human rights and his leadership in the nonviolent campaign by Tibetans seeking autonomy from China. After receiving Slovakia's Jan Langos award at a theater in Bratislava, the Dalai Lama said he considers the prize "new encouragement" for his efforts to find a "mutually agreeable solution" for China and Tibet.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has termed his stay in India for the past 50 years as an enriching experience. "Fifty years passed since I came to this country because of some tragedy beyond human control, beyond imagination, something very difficult.

June 12th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Some Chinese, it seems, are listening to Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on the issue of granting Tibet autonomy status. Travelling to The Netherlands last week, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader had a private meeting with Chinese pro-democracy activists.

June 7th, 2009 Paris mayor gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenshipPARIS — Paris' mayor has conferred a certificate of honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama, in a move that could further strain France's relations with China. Bertrand Delanoe has honored the exiled Tibetan leader with a ceremony in Paris' gilded City Hall.

April 27th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - The Tibetan government-in-exile in this Himachal Pradesh town Monday wrote a missive to China, expressing concern over the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, whom the Dalai Lama has recognised as the 11th Panchen Lama. 'According to media reports, Japanese journalist Yoichi Shimatsu had at a conference at Qinghua University in Beijing stated that Nyima had died of cancer some years ago, which is in total contradiction to your government's (Chinese) stated position that all is well with the Panchen Lama,' Speaker of Tibetan Parliament Penpa Tsering said in a statement posted on his official website.

April 25th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Thousands of Tibetan exiles Saturday took out a candlelight procession in this Himachal Pradesh town to mark the 20th birth anniversary of Gendun Chokeyi Nyima, whom the Dalai Lama has recognised as the 11th Panchen Lama. 'The Panchen Lama is in the custody of the Chinese for the past 14 years...

March 16th, 2009 BEIJING - The 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu, the state-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader, Sunday called on the Tibetans to support the Communist Party leadership of China to 'achieve progress and bright future'. 'People living in Tibet should cherish the prosperity and happy lives today,' the Panchen Lama said while visiting a government-sponsored exhibition in Beijing depicting economic and social progress that Tibet has achieved in the past five decades.

March 12th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, nuns and officials of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, on Wednesday attended an annual special prayer ceremony that marked the 16th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar year here. On the occasion, the Dalai Lama gave his annual spring speech at the main temple here.

March 12th, 2009 DHARAMSHALA - Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, nuns and officials of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, gathered at the main Tsuglagkhang Buddhist temple in Dharamshala to offer prayers for the long life of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday. This congregation of Tibetans assembled just a day prior to the 50th anniversary of Chinese occupation of their homeland.

March 11th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Tuesday thanked India for hosting him and thousands of his Tibetan followers in its territory for the past 50 years. 'This has been our home for the past 50 years.

March 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - About 300 Tibetan refugees held a rally here Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against the Chinese government in Tibet, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police Himanshu Lal said that the Tibetans, carrying banners and shouting slogans like 'Long Live the Dalai Lama' and 'Free Tibet, Save Tibet', marched for about one kilometre.

March 10th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - The Dalai Lama Monday said here he would try to live longer for the Tibetan cause, amid concerns about the health of the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. Thanking the Tibetan community at large and hundreds of exiled Tibetans who turned up at the Tsuglag Khang or main temple in Mcleodganj near this Himachal Pradesh town for offering 'long life' prayers for him, the Dalai Lama said he hoped to live longer.

March 10th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Having lived in exile for half a century with thousands of his Tibetan followers, Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tuesday said leaving Tibet in March 1959 was the 'right decision'. Addressing the media at the Tsuglag Khang or main temple complex here on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the March 10, 1959 Tibetan uprising that was crushed by Chinese forces, forcing him to escape into India, the Dalai Lama said he did not ever think his decision was wrong.

February 10th, 2009 Baden-BADEN - The Dalai Lama has warned that Tibetan culture was in peril under Chinese rule. 'When narrow-minded Chinese officials portray Tibetan beliefs and our cultural heritage as a threat, the Tibetan people hear a death sentence,' he said Tuesday as he received an award here from a German audience research company, Media Control.