THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of ...

In Sanskrit, vitarka means applied thought or reasoning ... It is the gesture of the accomplishment of the wish to devote oneself to human salvation. Recently restored Tibetan paintings collected by ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a unique expression of Buddhism that has developed over centuries in the high Himalayan region of Tibet and the surrounding areas. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the ...

Tibetan area CHINA Tibetan rights activists, as well as experts working for the United Nations, have said that the party is systematically separating Tibetan children from their families to erase ...

According to Ethnnologue, three major language families account for the majority of Indian languages: Sino-Tibetan (~150 languages ... of premodern India. Sanskrit is the pre-eminent classical ...

I was resting near a playground, between interviews for a story on the shrinking number of Tibetan kids in a boarding school built for them in the northern Indian city of Dharamshala. This ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, one of the institution’s most beloved installations, will be on view inside the Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of Asia galleries as part of a six-year ...