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China provides free gyms to Tibetan monks

Last Updated: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 23:52

Free gyms in monasteries are a part of China`s new initiatives to end the unrest among them.

Sri Lanka monks protest US move

Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 00:07

Several hundred Buddhist monks marched to the US embassy vowing support for President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

China gives subsistence allowance to Tibetan monks

Last Updated: Saturday, February 11, 2012, 22:33

China is doling out subsistence allowances to the Buddhist clergy in the restive Tibetan province.

Another Tibetan sets himself on fire in China

Last Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 20:55

Most of those who have set themselves on fire have chanted for Tibetan freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama.

China refutes criticism over human rights situation

Last Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 21:29

China refuted Human Rights Watch criticism over deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet.

China warns US not to meddle in its affairs

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 20:07

The US State Department on Monday said it was seriously concerned by the latest reports of self-immolations.

‘Self-immolation by Tibetan monks a grave sin’

Last Updated: Monday, December 5, 2011, 21:34

A Chinese state run daily said any defence of suicide is distortion of doctrines of Buddhism.

Bomb attack wounds 9 in southern Thailand

Last Updated: Monday, November 21, 2011, 13:52

Police Lt Fahamee Hengpiya says the monks were collecting alms when a bomb hidden in a planter went off.

Monks demand freedom in rare Myanmar protest

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 16:22

Five monks staged a rare protest in army-dominated Myanmar Tuesday, witnesses said, drawing a crowd of about 500 people with calls for peace and the immediate release of political prisoners.

2 Tibetan monks self-immolate amid Dalai Lama feud

Last Updated: Monday, September 26, 2011, 19:06

Three monks were recently sentenced to jail for more than 10 years each for plotting another monk`s self-immolation.

Two more Tibetan monks get jail terms in China

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 00:11

The two plotted, instigated and assisted in the self-immolation of 16-year-old Rigzin Phuntsog.

Tibet monk given 11 yrs in colleague`s immolation

Last Updated: Monday, August 29, 2011, 09:05

The March 16 death of Rigzin Phuntsog was described as a political protest against Chinese policies.