In the eighteenth century, missionaries and imperialists from the West reached Tibet. Their arrival and interests were deeply entangled with imperial competitions in this period. Although Tibet had…

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Keynote, followed by a conversation with Rajeev Balasubramanyam at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a pluri-disciplinary institution in Berlin whose work centers around the practices of visual arts, ...

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon

The authorities have not released an official list of those missing in the Tibet flood, creating an information void that people have tried to fill.

Chinese cyberspace authorities announced that ten people from Tibet and several other provinces have been hit with unspecified administrative punishments

On the morning of August 26, a glacial collapse caused catastrophic flooding and mudslides on the China-Nepal border, destroying a port and border crossing in

A spokeswoman for the disaster relief agency said the tally grew after some 900 people were reported missing from hydropower projects. Rescue efforts were complicated by fears of new possible flooding.

At least 1,500 people are missing, many of them foreign tourists, after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away entire villages

A wall of water crashed through a Himalayan river valley between Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet, the Nepali authorities said. The missing included border officials, port workers and foreign ...

This project will illuminate the nature of Tibet’s unique theocracy.

Who are Tibetans? How have they been framed as objects for study across time? For earlier Western academics and the audiences who read their work, Tibetans were a people largely defined by religiou…

Stressed out, endlessly scrolling and never satisfied? Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Buddhist monk with off-the-charts levels of contentment, may have the answers …

Ever the strategist, the Chinese leader is taking the offensive, both abroad and at home. That’s bad news for global order, and minorities in his country, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Sim...

Lobga Rangzen died in July 2026 during the first known Tibetan self-immolation on U.S. soil, protesting Chinese policies.

A conference on Tibetan studies in Nepal has been canceled at the request of government officials. Organizers announced Thursday that the International Association for Tibetan Studies seminar was set ...

Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation galvanized a global movement that had become fractured and discouraged.

A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.

Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.

No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.

A 73-year-old retired nurse spoke her native Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it — until now.

Forced assimilation is now the law.