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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The University of Toronto Libraries has procured a collection of traditional Tibetan manuscripts, assembled by the late scholar and former monk-official Lobsang Lhalungpa, that provides rare insights ...
After the initial quake in Tibet, there were dozens of aftershocks ... This region has a history of large earthquakes, including the 2015 Nepal earthquake, or Gorkha earthquake, that killed ...