After he had spent two months conducting research on linguistic change, the academy offered him a jeep to go anywhere in Tibet he wanted. Goldstein immediately asked to travel across the Changtang. He ...
Ba O and his brother Tsering are part of an unbroken line of Tibetan nomads who for at least a thousand years have led their herds to summer grazing grounds near the headwaters of the Yangtze and ...
The marketplace of Lhasa pulsated with the vibrant energy of merchants, pilgrims, nomads, monks and musicians. Situated ...
Beyond these individuals I was also surprised to find signs of the modern world spreading across Tibet: robed monks wearing sunglasses and riding motorcycles; nomads’ tents powered by solar ...
Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are ...
But that's not to diminish the hideous savageness with which China has treated Tibet." Almost every aspect of Chinese support has two sides, and education illustrates the point well. I met a number of ...
They say the move may embolden Beijing to resettle Tibetan nomads who currently live as herders on the Hoh Xil plateau. Unesco noted that the plateau, located in the western Qinghai province ...
"The centuries-old nomads are relocated because they want to make Tibet into a slaughterhouse to raise consumption for the tourism that is inflowing into China so they're hiding all these things ...
As a boy Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks At 13 his life changed through a series of visions Dawa acquired the gift of telling the epic story of Tibets ...
For one of his Tibetan photographers ... of snow leopards and other species inhabiting the region. "For local nomads, photography has become a popular way of life," Xi said.