Five batches of 50 yatris will cross into Tibet through the Lipulekh pass in Uttarakhand, and 10 batches of 50 pilgrims will ...

What is the history of Tibet? Tibet is a historical region on the Tibetan Plateau, a high-altitude area in the extreme southwest of modern-day China. In the seventh century AD, ...

Tibetan history before the fifth century is vague, although the dynasty that eventually unified Tibet had probably established its authority by the third century. The most important king was Song ...

The Musée Guimet, a Paris museum known for its rich collection of Asian art, is facing a lawsuit from several groups who ...

China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the United States was in "no position" to point fingers at the country on Tibet ...

With that idea in mind, I offer another book for Robert to read: “The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947” by Tsering Shakya, one of the few objective histories of modern ...

As the march finally leaves the dusty plains I complain about every week, we enter the cool beautiful hills into Nainital, a hill station surrounded by lakes. A popular spot ...

At 8,188m, Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. Located 20km west of Everest, it sits astride the border of Tibet and Nepal. We already wrote a brief climbing history of the ...

Senior Xiaoyu Shi, a Chinese student, understood that Chinese sovereignty over Tibet dates back to an earlier period in history. “The region of Tibet has been under the rule of the central government ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation.. It's not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that ...