High in the mist-shrouded Himalayas, a winding mountain road opens to a clearing in the pine forested valley, revealing rows ...

IT'S clear that the display of a foreign national flag or political statement is taken seriously in any country.During a ...

and Tibetan (black). The aggregation of the five peoples on the national flag reflected the new regime's desire for national unity following a revolution that was at times racially divisive.

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... They tilted toward it. The Tibetan struggle for independence from China has long captivated the West.

This story appears in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic ... Tibetans living under China's flag, he'd spent nearly all of his 48 years in eastern Tibet driving shaggy yaks through alpine ...

NEW DELHI--Hundreds of Tibetans in exile marched on the streets of New Delhi on Sunday to commemorate the 65th Tibetan National Uprising ... carried Tibetan flags and photographs of their ...

Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav attended the funeral and placed a wreath on Tenzin's coffin, which was draped in the flags of India and Tibet and was ... widely reported in national media, which ...

The mystery-cloaked Himalayan kingdom seeks Gross National Happiness, loves its king and wards off evil spirits with phallic ...

You stopped hearing about Tibet, or the Falun Gong ... One general manager of one National Basketball Association team put out one tweet, and since then, the NBA has worked overtime to demonstrate ...

Named after the famous Red Flag Canal, the proposal aims to annually divert 60 billion cubic meters of water from the major rivers of the ecologically fragile Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, including ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet’s 8,027m (26,335’) Shisha ... while proudly holding the national flag. Nepal’s climbing community also welcomed several others who returned ...

The national dress for men and boys in Bhutan is the gho, which dates back to the 17th century. (Photo by Norma Meyer) Colorful prayer flags flutter ... Nepal and Tibet, climbing the high ...