Special report: Tibet: Its Past and Present     

    LHASA, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Religious activities has been revived in monasteries across Tibet, a living Buddha said on Sunday.

    "The religious activities were interrupted by riot in March, but they all have been resumed as the whole region has come into peace," said Dadrak Tenzin Gelek, a living Buddha and vice president of the Tibetan branch of the Buddhist Association of China, when answering a foreign reporter in Lhasa.

    Monasteries including the Sera monastery and Zhaibung Monastery had held religious events to pray for the peace of the world and the success of the Beijing Olympics earlier.

    The lamas and Lamaism believers had also prayed for the people hit by the earthquake in Sichuan Province. As of June, the Tibetan religious circle had donated more than 1,117,000 yuan (n...

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