After being supplanted by modern exercise books, Tibetan writing boards are making a comeback Traditional Tibetan writing boards largely fell out of favor two decades ago as modern paper became more ...

At 38, Dawa Tsering often recalls with fondness how hard he used to practise Tibetan writing as a child. "I often wrote on a birch board with a bamboo stick dipped with soya sauce on its sharpened end ...

In Tibet, the few people old enough to remember the arrival of the Chinese in the 1950s use the word dhulok for the period – when time collapsed. I stumble upon the word deep in Tsering Wangmo ...

Two sites in Lhasa are linked to the invention of the Tibetan writing system. Outside the east wall of the Jokhang, Songtsen used to meditate next to an auspicious boulder. Later he ordered the ...

With the release of the brand new Qomolangma Tibetan fonts by the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), the iPhone is no longer the only option for Tibetans who wish to have a smartphone that can ...