NEWS REPORT: Youth organisation against sending delegations to Tibet; Western Buddhists appealed to counteract sectarianism; Tibetan medicine course in Nepal; Old people’s home of Rajpur; School results

DOCUMENTATION: The Hammer, Sickle & Pen: Manifesto of the Tibetan Communist Party

ARTICLES: Controversy over the Tibetan Communist Movement—A personal view, by K Dhondup; Opium and Ideology: The Unreal World of Tibetan Communism, by Jamyang Norbu; Buddhism and Marxism: Similarities and Contrasts, by Prof Trevor Ling

FROM THE PRESS: Cities’ tour part of plan to woo Tibetans, Reuters, June 12; China’s courting of India, Tibet may spell trouble, News World, June 13; Tibet curb on trade with India, others off, AP, June 23

LETTERS: Where was the Reform Office? Correspondence course in Tibetan; Sadutshang controversy; Swiss settlement; Readers, advertise Review

EDITORIAL: Seeing Red