Driving Home a Message on Tibet

Saffron-and-maroon-robed Buddhist monks waxed poetic on the ephemeral nature of the world at a Tibetan festival in Annandale yesterday. But they also urged visitors to help them with a more down-to-earth matter: getting a specialized license plate in Virginia.

Three Tibetan nuns in Mumbai

They were expecting a blue sea; brown swells of Marine Drive was surprise to three Tibetan nuns on their first visit to a big indian city, since their escape from Tibet last year.