While religion is crucial to Tibetan culture, the language— incomprehensible to Chinese, almost none of whom bother to learn it—is the second pillar of Tibetan identity. In this as well the ...

A classic chuba is wrapped around the body and fastened at the waist with a sash. Men's chubas are looser with broader ...

This group of amazing artists makes highly enjoyable traditional Tibetan music. Although they have to live and work in exile, in India, they managed to preserve the originality and variety of Tibetan ...

Peter van Ham has been documenting the site of the Tabo monastery for 30 years, and thanks to Phase One it's now presented in ...

UN advocacy officer from the Tibet Bureau Geneva condemned the Chinese government for what he described as a systematic ...

The US Government, in partnership with The Tibet Fund and the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), announced a new program ...

Beijing’s preferred form of ethnic minority culture is a sanitized simulacrum ... Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education. On the anniversary of the 1959 ...

Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibet has enjoyed a rich history of philosophical enquiry and carries this heritage forth today. Buddhism is a "wisdom tradition," meaning that it is based ...

The removal of young monks from religious institutions signals a direct attack on the transmission of Tibetan traditions to future generations.” Earlier, the CTA had called for immediate ...