Dalai Lama welcomes appointment of US coordinator for Tibetan issues

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 16th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama gave sermons on Buddhism here on Tuesday. Dalai Lama began the three-day sermons on Buddhist teachings at the Main Tibetan Temple (Tsuglagkhang) at the request of a Korean group, which he referred to as 'our Korean Dharma friends'.

September 13th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - A US team will meet Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in this north Indian hill station Monday to finalise details of his proposed US visit and meeting with President Barack Obama next month, officials said Sunday. Three US officials, including White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, Sunday met Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche and the Dalai Lama's special envoy Lodi Gyari to finalise the proposed meeting between the spiritual leader and Obama, the local officials said.

August 19th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - A delegation of French senators will visit this headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile this month to meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The delegation, headed by Jean Francois Humbert, senator from Franche Comte province, will arrive here Aug 30, a statement posted on the official web site of the Central Tibetan Administration said Wednesday.

July 23rd, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will get honorary citizenship of Warsaw during his visit to Poland next week, his aides said here Thursday. "On the invitation of the Warsaw administration, His Holiness (the Dalai Lama) is visiting Poland next week.

June 22nd, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Former union minister George Fernandes has arrived in this hill town in Himachal Pradesh to meet the spiritual head of the Tibetan community, the Dalai Lama, an official statement said Monday. "Former union minister George Fernandes and former deputy union minister Ajay Singh reached Dharamsala Sunday to meet the Dalai Lama," a statement posted on the website of the government-in-exile said.

March 15th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - The Tibetan government-in-exile, based in this north Indian hill station, has appreciated China's gesture to continue contacts and consultations with the envoys of the Tibetan spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama. 'We welcome the statement of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao...

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 DHARAMSALA - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has called for a united struggle against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. "Now, we are in such a state where all the people following Tibetan Buddhist traditions and Tibetans-in-exile should be united.

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 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 - 'When would you want to die?' is not the kind of question that most people would like to face. But when Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was asked this 'deadly' one Tuesday, he was hardly annoyed.

March 9th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Top monks of Tibetan sects Sunday sought a new law by the Tibetan parliament in exile to govern the procedure of selecting and appointing reincarnations in Tibetan Buddhism. In a resolution passed at a meeting of the high lamas at the end of three days of deliberations, it was decided that the issue of having a law on reincarnations should be sent to the Tibetan parliament in exile.

February 1st, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was admitted to Apollo Hospital in New Delhi Monday and discharged later, his aide said. 'This morning (Monday) His Holiness (the Dalai Lama) was admitted to Apollo Hospital after complaining of a mild discomfort in one of his arms,' Tenzin Taklha, a senior aide to the leader, told IANS by phone.

January 19th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday congratulated Barack Obama on his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, Tibet's government-in-exile here said. 'The religious guru, on a visit to international township of Auroville near Puducherry, expressed his deep congratulations and prayers for Obama for success,' Tenzin Taklha, joint secretary at Dalai Lama's office, told IANS.