Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died . As his body was ...

There are some 60 languages spoken on the Tibetan Plateau. But harsh Chinese policies mean many minority languages may not be passed down to future generations.

Several Tibetan monk friends, just the “troublemaker monk” type that are in the monasteries explained to me their view on “independence”: “actually, we may well have been ethnic Han in a ...

Although not as well-known as the Silk Road, which linked China and Europe, the Tea Horse Road was a crucial commercial ...

In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

Framed as "liberating" rural workers, the report said, this process has forced tens of thousands of Uyghurs, Tibetans and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet into industries such as ...

There are three main reasons why airlines don’t fly over Tibet. Credit: N509FZ / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 When airlines plan their routes for long trips to Asia, they avoid flying over Tibet ...

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 ...

The best time to visit Tibet is from June to August. Situated high on a plateau, Tibet experiences low temperatures and frost for the majority of the year. Summer is the only time where ...

Yunnan Province Map: Comprising nearly 44 percent karst landscape, Yunnan Province is part of an extensive karst belt that stretches through eight provinces in southern China — from Guangxi and Hubei ...