In the Tibetan language, "Geshe" means "intellectual ... Ranking first in this year's exam, Changpa Yongnor, a 42-year-old monk from the Yendum monastery in Qamdo city, told Xinhua that receiving ...

The authorities in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China’s northwestern Qinghai province summoned the abbot and seven monks from Longen Monastery to sign a document stating ... One of his famed ...

BEIJING, China (CNN)-- A monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a human rights group reported.