The US ambassador to China is to visit the disputed region of Tibet this week, further stoking tensions between Washington and Beijing amid an ongoing trade war. The US embassy has announced that ...

Few buildings inspire awe in quite the way that the Potala Palace does. Set high on the great Tibetan plateau, against the looming backdrop of the Himalayas, the vast structure rises 400 feet from a ...

Thupten Dadak has spent the past three decades preserving and celebrating Tibetan culture in Minnesota. And a new exhibit at the Hennepin History Museum is latest of his efforts. Through artifacts and ...

These two source books give students and general readers access to an emerging academic field, modern Tibetan studies, which challenges the shallow popular image of Tibet as an isolated land of ...

Melvyn Goldstein, PhD, set out in the mid-1980s to write one book about Tibet history from 1913 to 1959. But 900 pages in, he brought that volume to a close only having reached 1951, when communist ...

Tibet is one of the most debated regions on the world map, often described as both a nation and an autonomous region within ...

Tibet, a plateau 13,000 feet above sea level that sits between China and India, remained largely isolated for centuries. It had its own national flag, currency, culture and religion within a ...

An Indian official greets the Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, on the latter’s arrival at a military camp on the frontier of Assam April 18, 1959 in India. In the center is Mr.

Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social ...