Luckily, Potala Palace is a common stop on Tibet tour group itineraries, so chances are you won't have to do much legwork. You must show up an hour before the time slot arranged by your tour guide ...

OLD Sumchhung was the first to arrive on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall this month for a rally to commemorate the ...

including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery and the shopping haven, Barkhor Street. Southwest of Lhasa lies Tibet's second largest city and tourist hub, Shigatse. Shigatse bears a ...

For the last six years in a row, US think-tank Freedom House has ranked Tibet among the worst places in the world for civil rights and political freedom. Under the Chinese Communist Party, nobody is ...

This journey is less about reaching a destination and more about the moments in between—chanting with monks, catching your ...

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake has caused buildings to collapse in Thailand and Burma, leaving more than 1,000 dead across both countries.

In exile in India, Tenzin Gyatso explained in a book that his successor would be born outside China, while the Chinese ...

It is because Ladakh is located in the high Himalayas and has a Tibetan cultural exchange as well as interaction.

Tweed, during an armed conflict between Scotland and England. 1533: Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

In Mandalay, Burma's second-largest city and close to the epicenter, the earthquake damaged part of the former royal palace and buildings ... injured so far in Tibet on the Chinese side of ...

The liberation of serfs in Xizang was a historic step taken by the Communist Party of China. Given that many European and ...