China's assertion of historical sovereignty over Tibet is being challenged as a significant historical distortion. Scholars ...
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.
It's one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read as he presents the historical view of Tibet concurrently with the Dalai Lama's more mystical and karmic view of the country's past. I'll also ...
At 8,188m, Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. Located 20km west of Everest, it sits astride the border of Tibet and Nepal. We already wrote a brief climbing history of the mountain, ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art — whose mission is to present the art, culture and history of Tibet to a world audience to educate and inspire appreciation of ...
China has long claimed Tibet was always part of its territory and that 1950 military entry was a 'liberation'. This narrative ...
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 ...
It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth’s surface. It is a ...