Gaden Tripa consecrates new prayer hall [ Prem Chetry ] BOMDILA, 4 Nov: “The relationship between India and Tibet is ...

The new one—and two—story buildings bear signs in two languages—Tibetan script on top and larger Chinese characters below. As thankless as I found these towns, dirt-poor Tibetan nomads are ...

the patriarch slowly writing something in a ledger in shaky Tibetan script. The sinewy woman who served us tea is the matriarch. She slops the hogs with a kitchen pail, dumping the contents over ...

"Xizang" is the pinyin, or Chinese romanisation, of the Mandarin script for "Tibet". Liang Junyan, a researcher at CTRC, said the term "Tibet" had taken on "more political connotations", and ...

The Naxi language is distantly related to the Tibetan language. Naxi religious leaders, called Dongba, have long used a unique form of picture writing to record the stories and myths that are central ...

“When you are fighting for your freedom, a lot of people rely on you, and all you can do is fight hard for them,” says the former Head of the Central Tibetan Administration (2012-2021), also known as ...

As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

The best time to visit Tibet is from June to August. Situated high on a plateau, Tibet experiences low temperatures and frost for the majority of the year. Summer is the only time where ...

A rescue operation to find people trapped in an avalanche on a Tibetan highway has now ended, with Chinese state media reporting the death toll to be at least 28. People were left trapped in their ...

Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan The current socio-political re-engineering in Hong Kong — called the “Second Handover” by some — is following a script reminiscent of the happenings in Tibet ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

The Chinese fence traces a furrow in the Himalayas, its barbed wire and concrete ramparts separating Tibet from Nepal. Here, in one of the more isolated places on earth, China’s security cameras ...