Dalai Lama Encouraged by Increasing Interest in Religion in China

The Dalai Lama has said that he is encouraged by the increasing interest in religion in China. He was addressing several hundred Taiwanese and ethnic Chinese devotees in Dharamsala on July 28 and 31, 2004 at the conclusion of a ten-day Buddhist teaching to them.

Rapid development poses new challenges for Tibet

On a high mountain pass in central Tibet, three men, clad in heavy leather aprons and coated in dust from the road, are making a painful pilgrimage, pausing every few steps to prostrate themselves on the stony ground in a show of their enduring devotion to their Buddhist religion.