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 ...

As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

这篇论坛文章指责展示亚洲艺术的吉美博物馆和展示原始艺术的布朗利博物馆为了取悦中国，在它们的展厅里，把“西藏”原来的拼写TIBET给清除了 ...

China’s Tibet policy has been one of the most controversial aspects of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) seventy-five-year rule. While the CCP has claimed to develop Tibet as a global center ...

The controversy sparked by an op-ed written by eminent French specialists on Tibet and China, published in Le Monde, on August 31, claiming that two major French national museums had "bowed" to ...

Kathmandu (AFP) – A record number of climbers are gathered in Tibet to complete mountaineering's pinnacle achievement, summiting the world's tallest 14 peaks. Only about 50 climbers have climbed ...

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 ...

It is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, and is considered the most accessible of the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks. The standard route for climbing Cho Oyu is via the Northwest Ridge ...

Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education. Despite taking part in a momentous rite of passage, tears streaked the faces of the 110 students who graduated from ...

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 ...

This is important not only for elucidating and predicting related hydroclimatic changes in the Tibetan Plateau region itself, but also because these interactions have far-reaching impacts on the ...