At sunrise and sunset, the air is cool, the scent of burning juniper incense is strong, and a river of pilgrims flows in a sacred circle around Jokhang Temple. Every day, they walk the perimeter of ...
China is transforming the ancient part of Tibet's capital into a tourist district according to a visiting native of the area, Amy Li of the South China Morning Post reports. The construction project ...
At a riverside park in Lhasa, a group of yak mascots has recently become an online sensation, attracting millions of views ...
Experience a flight aboard Tibet Airlines from Chengdu to Lhasa, the Roof of the World. The A330 flight navigates challenging terrain using Required Navigation Performance (RNP) for improved accuracy, ...
Chinese officials have allegedly sent a significant number of police and paramilitary personnel to Lhasa on Sunday for the annual Ganden Ngamchoe festival, an important religious event that honours ...
Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...
Probing fingers brushed my hip as I plunged into the crowd of Tibetan pilgrims shuffling around and around the Jokhang Temple. I turned, ready to confront a pickpocket, but instead found a tiny, ...
BEIJING – BEIJING (AP) — A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an overseas Tibetan rights ...
Tibetan language teacher Deji Yangzong, gives a lesson to 3rd grade students in Lhasa No.1 Primary School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 21, 2008. Tibetan ...