After he had spent two months conducting research on linguistic change, the academy offered him a jeep to go anywhere in Tibet he wanted. Goldstein immediately asked to travel across the Changtang. He ...

As for the signature drink of Tibet, that's butter tea. Butter tea is made with yak butter, barley powder and milk curds. The tea acts as fuel for nomads braving the cooler temps in the more ...

Former Napa resident Dianne Aigaki is signing up guests to join her for “the journey of a lifetime to eastern Tibet.” Aigaki told the Register, “We’ll paint wildflowers, take photos of ...

Beyond these individuals I was also surprised to find signs of the modern world spreading across Tibet: robed monks wearing sunglasses and riding motorcycles; nomads’ tents powered by solar ...

Tibetan royalty and nomads alike took to tea for good reasons. It was a hot beverage in a cold climate where the only other options were snowmelt, yak or goat milk, barley milk, or chang (barley ...

The report says China is using 'training centers' for forced labor and transferring 'surplus' rural workers across the country ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

Tibet? Not so much. But in its focused, unshowy, methodical way, “Frontline”’s “Battle for Tibet’’ makes the case that the world should be paying closer attention to the isolated ...

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama who helped the CIA mount an ill-fated armed uprising against the Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 1950s and later spent decades as a ...

and resistance to the relocation and resettlement of Tibetan nomads. In 2008 thousands of Tibetans rose up in a public demonstration of resistance against China’s occupation of Tibet.

It’s been 75 years since China invaded Tibet, the mountain territory it has long claimed as its own. With the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama approaching his 90th birthday ...