Over time, they married Tibetan women, mastered the Tibetan language and took up Tibetan cuisine. They became a distinct community in Lhasa, with their own mosque: prosperous, well-regarded and ...

Women in the Tibet Autonomous Region are playing big roles in various fields nowadays. Yanggim is one of them. Yanggim, a graduate from the Southwest China Institute of Political Science and Law, ...

A fire has hit the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one ...

Yet, for more than 10,000 years, Tibetan women living on the high Tibetan Plateau have not only survived but thrived in that environment. A new study led by Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University ...

Sixty four year-old Tibetan Jamyang Tenzin has embarked on a cycling journey from Tawang to New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to ...

[Photo/Xinhua] LHASA — In a bustling workshop, dozens of women manually operate looms, with thumping sounds abounding. At one loom, Namdrin, wearing colorful homemade Tibetan garb, shows a ...

Some of the best places to see this is in the harshest places, as demonstrated by a new study linking increased oxygen ...

He said, "In 1987, in the capital of Tibet, Lhasa, a massacre took place. Many Lamas were killed there during a peace march and many young men and women were also killed". He said that in the context ...