The Tibetan Mastiff has long been surrounded by mystery, prestige, and astonishing price tags, including reports of dogs ...

Lissy, 6 years; Mina, 4 years. Sex: Females. Lissy and Mina’s story: Lissy and Mina are sweethearts. Affectionate Lissy loves ...

Chinese authorities have escalated political pressure on Tibetan communities in Amdo Golog following the detention of ...

Each year, ever since the early 1400s, Tibetan Buddhists gather to unveil a large thangka — a painting made on fabric — of Buddha. The great prayer ritual, which was banned during the cultural ...

Before becoming Lama Tsomo, she was Hyatt Hotel chain heiress Linda Pritzker. — -- Before Lama Tsomo became one of the first American women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual ...

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

In March 2008, Amy Yee — then a Delhi correspondent for the Financial Times — attended a press conference given by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, where he had established a government in exile ...

Sonam Tashi refuses to let his son inherit the same fear. Once active in the Free Tibet movement in Kathmandu, he found himself silenced. Unable to secure identity papers for his son, he left for the ...

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems ...

For China, Sinicizing Tibet’s next generation through boarding schools is the ultimate strategy for solidifying its control over the region. For the past two years, reports have laid bare the ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is preparing to address one of the most sensitive questions in global religion and geopolitics: who will succeed him. Ahead of his 90th birthday on July 6, he ...

"The conditions in Kashi village are dire and require prompt international focus and intervention. Remaining silent and inactive will only facilitate further environmental destruction and human rights ...