The Tibetan Plateau is an area of about 2.5 million square kilometers in which summertime high temperatures seldom rise above 25 degrees Celsius and nighttime temperatures could drop below ...

For years, international discourse surrounding Tibet has often been colored by accusations of cultural erasure. Reports have claimed that Tibetan children are abandoning their language, that centuries ...

Tibetan landscape. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 6, 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.C. Meyer at University of Innsbruck in Innsbruck ...

For 15 minutes, in a film called “Jinpa” made in 2018, a man drives a truck across a Tibetan plateau. He has dishevelled hair, a moustache and glasses; his truck has a picture of a lama on the ...

As such, Tibetan landscape itself has long been endowed with special qualities that one can call "sacred," inspiring both awe and fascination in the Western world. However, it is important to explore ...

Stunning pictures of wildlife earn conservationist and Duke alumna Binbin Li one of China’s top prizes in nature photography Binbin Li’s award-winning shot of two rival male antelope roaming the ...

As the Dalai Lama turns 90, the Tibetan spiritual leader finds himself in a tussle with China over who will succeed him. The clash is a long time in the making with the Dalai Lama insisting the ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism ...

The universality of death The publication date for The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 1341 CE or thereabouts, gives us the historical context for the work’s appeal. The perilous time in which it was ...

As the Dalai Lama turns 90 this month, he is focusing attention on the future of Tibetan Buddhism and the exiled Tibetan nation. The spiritual leader, who led a flock of tens of thousands out of ...

Gyal Lo, a Tibetan education researcher, became alarmed by the boarding schools in 2016, when he saw that his two preschool-aged grandnieces, who were attending one in his hometown in northwestern ...