The Dalai Lama urged China and the international community to facilitate an international media presence in Tibet, in an interview with Polish television Monday.

Without going into detail of how he proposed getting foreign journalists into tightly controlled Tibet, the exiled Tibetan leader said their presence there was essential "to see what is happening."   FULL ARTICLE LINK

More than 7,000 people have demonstrated in the Swiss capital Bern to show their solidarity with Tibetans.

The demonstrators, who included many exiled Tibetans living in Switzerland, demanded on Saturday that the government officially receive the Dalai Lama.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

China has launched a campaign in Tibet to denounce the Dalai Lama and to strengthen ties between the public and the Communist party, the Tibet Daily reported Monday.

The two-month "patriotic education" will cover the capital Lhasa and surrounding rural areas and will focus on strengthening relations between Tibetans and local Communist party officials, the newspaper said.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Dozens of people have died in mass protests against Chinese rule in Tibet. Protestors on the streets of Lhasa set fire to Chinese businesses and smashed government buildings. The demonstrations began whenBuddhist monks marched from their monasteries on 10 March, to mark the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet which in 1959 tried to restore the Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, as the political leader of Tibet.

Some of this year's protestors were arrested. The next day, even more monks marched. As the news spread, Tibetans in China, Nepal and India, took to the streets, too.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Most of the Tibetan living Buddhas and lamas are against secessionism and have opposed and checked the riots in various forms, said a top living Buddha in the northwestern Gansu Province.

"It is only a very few people who were engaged in the sabotage activities. Most living Buddhas and lamas are patriotic," said Jamyang Losang Jigme Tubdain Qoigyi Nyima, a living Buddha and vice-president of the Tibetan Chapter of the Buddhist Association of China.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

The Tibetan Catholic Church in Cizhong, a Christian enclave on the threshold of the Himalayas, has seen its Easter services curbed after anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa caused the region's deadliest tensions in two decades.

As a result, this tiny community of less than 1,000 souls located in amid picturesque mountains in an overwhelmingly Buddhist area has been affected by the recent unrest where it matters the most for them -- religion.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

The Dalai Lama condemned a "rule of terror" in his native Tibet on Sunday as Chinese forces blanketed the region's capital in security and pro-independence protests spread elsewhere in China.

A fresh protest in southwest China's Sichuan province reportedly left at least seven people dead in a dangerous escalation of the uprising by Tibetans against China's rule of the vast Himalayan region.

The violence, previously confined mainly to the Tibetan capital Lhasa, has left at least 80 people dead, according to Tibet's government-in-exile, although the official death toll in China's state-run media remained at 10.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Access to YouTube in China was denied on Sunday after footage of recent deadly protests in Tibet appeared on the video posting site.

Attempts to call up the site met with a blank screen and an error message saying the web page could not be displayed.

The access problems came after video clips began appearing on the site showing violent unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa that triggered a virtual lockdown of the city by security forces.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Soldiers and police have been deployed around two Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where monks launched protests against Chinese rule earlier this week, witnesses and residents said Thursday.

A man who answered the phone at the Sera monastery said monks have been confined inside its walls, shut off from outside contact, and are relying on dwindling food supplies.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

China's top state-favoured Tibetan Buddhist leader has condemned the riots that shook Lhasa, state media said on Sunday, but the tightly controlled teenager appeared to avoid directly criticising the exiled Dalai Lama.

The Panchen Lama ranks second to the Dalai Lama in the hierarchy of Tibetan Buddhism.   FULL ARTICLE LINK