After eight months, Javier Carrasco and his partner have covered 12,000km across Europe, China, and Central Asia. They have ...

RANEY ARONSON-RATH: This year marks 75 years of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule of Tibet. VICTOR GAO: For the Chinese government, for the Chinese nation, the thing is very simple. There is only one ...

Tashi Lhamo live-streams from her home in Qonggyai County, Shannan City in Tibet Autonomous Region, on April 2. [Photo/Xinhua] Life in Tibet Autonomous Region is no longer remote in modern times, ...

Pema Tseden is the son of Tibetan nomads, the only one of three siblings to have finished his schooling. He is also the first director in China ever to film movies entirely in the Tibetan language.

Growing up, Naiwen Tian ’16 believed that the majesty of Tibet could “cure” her, making her more conscious of who she was and her part in the universe. She made many assumptions, she admitted, from ...

I had a chance to sit down with Greenwich resident Molly Cummings Minot Cook recently, who told me the story of her late brother, Wilbur "Billy" Cummings. We pick up the story in 1938, when Billy and ...

LHASA, China — A brisk wind ruffles yellow prayer flags as dozens of Tibetans, some on crutches, circle a shrine in a time-honored Buddhist ritual. Across the street, a red banner spells out a new ...

One of the greatest travelers and adventurers of the last century died a few months ago, and hardly anybody noticed. His passing rated only the briefest of mentions in this newspaper. I missed it ...

Filmmaker Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan in Chinese) has emerged as the most outstanding cinematic voice of Tibet. Hailing from the Tibetan area of Amdo (Qinghai) and trained at the prestigious Beijing ...

LHASA, China (Reuters) - Buddhist monasteries have reopened to the devout in Tibet's regional capital, but nearly a year after monks' protests sparked deadly riots, officials keep a tight grip on ...

Soon after announcing that “inciting” self-immolation would be prosecuted as murder, Chinese authorities arrested a monk and his nephew in Sichuan Province for “goading” people to set themselves ...