Rice Asks China to Reach Out to Dalai Lama

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she asked Chinese leaders in meetings Sunday to contact the Dalai Lama and said the exiled Tibetan leader is no threat to China.

A ‘middle way’ out for Tibet

They came in their thousands to hear him speak: monks, foreign pilgrims and, sitting on flagstones outside the two-storey temple, dozens of Western backpackers, all curious to catch a brief glimpse of a reincarnated Buddha.

Woman pleads guilty in passport scheme

A woman who falsely claimed she was a Buddhist nun to gain asylum in the United States has pleaded guilty to misusing a passport and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.