Tibetan medicine, called Sowa Rigpa (SOH-wah RIG-pah, roughly "the science of healing"), is about a thousand years old and still practiced across Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and the Himalayas. It borrowed ...

After 75 years of Chinese Communist Party rule in Tibet, and as Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, approaches his 90th birthday, Tibet is at a critical juncture. FRONTLINE’s documentary Battle ...

Many people know Tibet — the vast, remote region that sits on the Tibetan Plateau — as the “roof of the world.” With an average elevation of about 14,800 feet to 16,000 feet, it is one of the highest ...

More than 1,500 people are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet, including more than 800 foreign tourists, after rare flash glacial-lake outburst floods submerged towns and communities under a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Wednesday, part of a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas, triggering catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border.

(For related story see CHINA-TIBET/ or [ID:nSP343203]) March 21 - Tibetans in China's southwestern province of Sichuan said on Friday they believed several people had been killed in anti-Chinese riots ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

In January of this year, I spoke before a panel in Luxembourg about digital repression and the shrinking of civic space. I made the case that Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hongkongers should not only be ...

Demolition of monks’ quarters aimed at reducing their population and making assimilation easier, sources tell RFA.