Hongya, China - "Get out of here! They will arrest anyone who looks in there," cried a middle-aged woman standing near the closed red doors of a small temple in China's north-western province of Qinghai.

The nervous taxi driver jumped into his car and started rolling downhill with the doors still open and his two passengers stranded.

Dharamsala, India  - In the short wait before disembarking from a turbo-prop aircraft that has landed in India's lush Dharamsala valley, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, greeted passengers with gentle nods and a smile, offering a helping hand to a woman struggling with her luggage.

New Delhi  - Hundreds of Tibetan monks and exiles gathered at a main Buddhist temple in a northern India hill-town to join their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Sunday to offer prayers for Tibetans killed in Chinese crackdowns.

The Dalai Lama led the prayers at the Tsuglagkhang temple near his abode-in-exile in Dharamsala in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

Religious leaders from the four main Tibetan Buddhist sects, the Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche as well as ministers and members of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile were present at the prayers.

Dharamsala, Mar 7 : Tibetan exiles on Saturday began a five-day long prayer session to pray for the long life of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

A religious association organised prayer session at Chamunda Temple with Hindu customs and rituals.

Several Buddhist monks and Tibetan exiles attended the praying session.

Beijing  - China on Saturday accused the Dalai Lama of making unrealistic demands that go beyond his public commitment to greater autonomy for Tibet, rather than independence, in the latest reflection of the gulf between the two sides.

"The Dalai side still insists on establishing a so-called greater Tibet on a quarter of Chinese territory," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told reporters in Beijing.

"They want to drive away Chinese troops from Chinese territory," Yang charged.

New Delhi, Mar. 6 : Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said that there is no scope for force, violence or terror for resolution of any issue in this globalize world.

He stressed on the need of initiating dialogue for addressing disagreements or dissatisfaction of any particular group of people to attain a peaceful solution.