Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...

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 ...

The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900, seeking a purer version of Buddhism than the one in his homeland. What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi ...

A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is still intact after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northern foothills of Mount Everest. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near Shigatse, one of ...

He spoke about China's policy of changing the names of places and occupying areas. He said that the Tibetan Government in-exile is working to draft a new map of Tibet while composing of a book on old ...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering, leader of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), addressed a large gathering at the Miao ...

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Human Rights experts have sent a letter to the Chinese government, raising serious concerns over its recent history of human ...

Born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1926, Lhalungpa became an ordained monk at age eight and pursued studies in Buddhism and Tibetan history. After serving as a monk-official with the 14th Dalai Lama for seven ...

Southern Tibetan Plateau. "The region near the India and Eurasia plate boundary has a history of large earthquakes," the USGS said in a summary of the quake. "In the past century, there have been ...