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About 1,000 monks and nuns in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have initiated a signature campaign to express love for the country and religion.

Meditation makes you calmer and clearer and encourages empathy and kindness a right? Not if you are Anders Behring Breivik who has told psychiatrists that he used meditation to "numb the full spectrum of human emotion - happiness to sorrow, despair, hopelessness, and fear". He still practises it behind bars to deaden the impact of his actions.

Spokeswoman Klejda Plangarica says the bus went off the road Monday near the town of Himare, 137 miles south of the capital, Tirana.

Indian authorities have dropped charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader involving $1.35 million in cash discovered at his monastery in northern India.

Last week I almost dropped my spirituality challenged bundle and became a Buddhist.

The number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently.