Humans
dwelt in ice-age Tibet
source: Philip
Ball /Nature.com
Handprints and footprints 20,000 years old reveal that people
lived on the Tibetan plateau at the height of the Ice Age - 16,000
years earlier than scientists had thought. The newly found signs
of life cast doubt on the idea that a glacier a...
Meditation mapped in monks
source: BBC News/
University of Pennsylvania
Scientists investigating the effect of the meditative state on
Buddhist monk's brains have found that portions of the organ previously
active become quiet, whilst pacified areas become stimulated.
Andrew Newberg, a radiologist at....
Swiss campaign to rebuild giant Afghan
Buddha
source:
By Karen Iley / Excite News
GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss campaigners hoping to reconstruct one
of two ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban said on
Wednesday the plan could offer a much-needed symbol of hope to
Afghanistan. "All we're hearing is...
'Untouchables'
convert to Buddhism
source: BY Ashok Sharma/AP
NEW DELHI, India--Defying police restrictions, thousands of low-caste
Hindus on Sunday converted to Buddhism, shaking off centuries-old
social shackles that condemn them to lives marked by discrimination.
Facing a bronze idol...
Buddhist relics
smuggled out of Afganistan
source: Nobuaki Suzuki Yomiuri / Shimbun
Buddhist images and fragments of them believed to have been stolen
from the world-famous Buddhist relics at Bamiyan in Afghanistan
are being smuggled into Pakistan in large quantities by Afghan
refugees, with Japanese collectors...
H.H. Dalai
Lama news archives
Instructions
for Life in the New Millennium - H.H. Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama leaves India hospital
Dalai Lama falls ill, postpones Kalachakra in India
Dalai Lama's letter to President Bush
UN
Grants Tibet NGO status -- A Breakthrough For Tibet
China plans to select next Dalai Lama
'Little
Lhasa': Tibetan spirit endures in the Dalai Lama's Indian home
Dalai Lama meets with Bush
Dalai Lama visits UW brain laboratory
Dalai Lama's advice for the new millenium