The US ambassador to China is to visit the disputed region of Tibet this week, further stoking tensions between Washington and Beijing amid an ongoing trade war. The US embassy has announced that ...
Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political ...
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 ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — About 300 people marched in Taipei on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising and protest China’s repression of Tibet, per CNA.
Melvyn Goldstein, PhD, set out in the mid-1980s to write one book about Tibet history from 1913 to 1959. But 900 pages in, he brought that volume to a close only having reached 1951, when communist ...
I was appalled by Robert Li’s depiction of the Dalai Lama in his piece called “Dalai Lama sews seeds of selfish plan in Tibet” (3/27) which confirms Beijing’s view of Dalai as a “splittist”. While I ...
Few buildings inspire awe in quite the way that the Potala Palace does. Set high on the great Tibetan plateau, against the looming backdrop of the Himalayas, the vast structure rises 400 feet from a ...
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.
Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in ...