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The Drepung Monastery branch of the Tibetan intangible cultural heritage protection center held a plaque-unveiling ceremony on Sunday.

The 19th Bakula Rinpoche, Ngawang Lobzang Tubstan Choknor was recognised by the thirteenth Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Bakula Arhat (one of the 16 Arhats

April 2 was a beautiful day in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Under cloudless skies, Barkor Street was bustling with pilgrims circling Jokhang Temple in a clockwise manner, a usual part of daily religious practice. As the sun glinted off Jokhang's golden roof, hundreds of monks from some of the region's most important monasteries made their way to the temple to take part in this year's Tibetan Buddhism examinations.

In the spring of 1989, Liu Xiaobo was a thirty-four-year-old professor of literature and philosophy at Beijing Normal University with a keen interest in political ideas, who when demonstrations broke out, quickly became a habitué of Tiananmen Square. Having written a doctoral thesis on the topic of aesthetics and human freedom, he was a prolific if acidic writer, a loner and

A Tibetan monk, who spent more than 20 years in Chinese prisons, died at the age of 61.