The best way to get around Tibet is with your tour group. Due to the provisions of Tibet's travel permits, all forms of transportation around Tibet must be prearranged through a tour group.

If you look at the flight paths of airplanes traveling around the world, you will notice several oddities. For example, they ...

As part of his ongoing official tour across Europe, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the political leader of Tibet’s Central Tibetan ...

There are seven regions in Tibet, but the ones with the most attractions (and the areas included in most tours) are Lhasa, Shigatse, Ngari and Nagqu. Lhasa is the capital of Tibet and central city ...

Journalist and China-watcher Orville Schell, who traveled secretly to Tibet for FRONTLINE in 1994, returns to a story that won't go away. Broadcast on the eve of Chinese premier Jiang Zemin's 1997 ...

Monasteries are an integral part of Tibetan culture and a must for a tour of Tibet. The Potala Palace in Lhasa is the religious center of Tibet. It spans Mount Potala, and is the primary monastery of ...

The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900, seeking a purer version of Buddhism than the one in his homeland. What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi ...

A group of spectators unfurled Tibetan flags during last Saturday's game in Mainz A football tour of Germany by the Chinese U20 team has been suspended because of a political row over Tibet.

In this Frontline site, which focuses on the world's fascination with the plight of modern-day Tibet, there is an excellent section on the origin and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Other aspects of ...