TAWANG, India (Reuters) - Perched in the icy folds of the Himalayas near India's border with China, Tawang Buddhist, monastery, where the Dalai Lama made a controversial trip at the weekend, is at the ...
BEIJING — The museum visitors file past black-and-white photos from the early 20th century showing Tibetan children in filthy rags begging for food on the streets of Lhasa. They click their tongues at ...
An article signed by a 99-year-old former official in the old Tibet praises Serfs Emancipation Day which falls on March 28. The article written by Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, once a Galoin (cabinet minister ...
A study of the world's highest geological feature, the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called the "roof of the world," has determined that the plateau rose to its current height much earlier than ...
Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan. NEW DELHI, India— ...
As the evening settled on the forested suburb of New York, I was sipping wine with 90-year-old former New York Times editor Seymour Topping on the terrace overlooking their garden when his wife Audrey ...
Even though his words could land him in jail, the monk isn’t afraid. We are inside his mud-brick lodgings, safe from the security cameras that track a people so desperate that about 130 Tibetans have ...
The Dalai Lama has turned 90 years old, and almost 7,000 miles across the world, local Tibetans, friends of Tibet, and ...
Pema Tseden is a name you’re going to be much more familiar with in the coming years. With his strong sense of visual composition and a dedication to presenting the real Tibet, it’s only a matter of ...
The fossilized jawbone and teeth of a 5-million-year-old fox have been unearthed in Tibet. The fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, is probably the ancestor of modern Arctic foxes. The discovery, along with ...
Forget Uggie or Hachiko. My favorite canine companion in recent cinema is the shaggy, steadfast nomad mastiff of Tibetan writer-director Pema Tseden’s contemplative and ultimately wrenching “Old Dog” ...