"Low-slung" Naxi dwellings give way to Tibetan farmhouses with rammed-earth walls and, past the tourist town of Zhongdian (recently renamed Shangri- La), the way becomes quieter. Prayer wheels ...

RICHMOND — The Gyuto Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in East Richmond Heights, and the U.S. Monlam Festival invite the community to celebrate the 90th birthday of His Holiness ...

As the Chinese saying goes: "The cries of apes on both banks cannot stop the swift boat from gliding past ten thousand hills." No amount of Western propaganda can undo Xizang's progress.

"In the eyes of some biased individuals, they claim that we forcibly changed the traditional way of life of the Tibetan people. What kind of traditional life do they want? Is it the kind where slave ...

To the layman’s eye, the spectacle is simple: a man glides across the ice, jumps and spins, lands, and continues to glide. But Jimmy Ma, a 29-year-old professional figure skater himself, points ...

The interim government on Thursday said the USCIRF's portrayal of the religious freedom situation in Bangladesh is based on misinformation and selective reporting. "The interim government is not ...

The Tibetan plateau is known as the world's Third Pole for the amount of ice long locked in the high-altitude wilderness. The dramatic ice loss, from the Arctic to the Alps, from South America to ...

"The current market rate in Tibet is between Rs800,000 and Rs 1.2 million per yak in Tibetan markets,” said Nupu. Photo: Courtesy of Nupu Sherpa Yak and chauri farming involves two primary breeds.

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World's Glaciers Are Losing Record Ice as Global Temperatures Climb, U.N. Says By Alexander Villegas (Reuters) - Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three ...