The project has stoked concerns about displacement and environmental impact downstream in India and Bangladesh.

Such protests are extremely rare in Tibet, which China has tightly controlled since it annexed the region in the 1950s. That ...

Here’s the story of how the Tibetan Mastiff went from a prized asset in ancient trade to an abandoned symbol of fleeting ...

While analyzing core samples from an ancient Tibetan glacier, scientists found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of ...

The “lost and forbidden” kingdom of Upper Mustang, tucked away in northern Nepal, is an arid and ancient land, like a flashback to the Tibet of the 1950s, when the Dalai Lama still reigned in ...

A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last ...

chong cao can be found only on the Tibetan Plateau. Shoes and shampoos, TVs and toasters may be pouring westward along the paved portions of the ancient trade route, but something is going back east.

On a viewing platform near the Potala Palace in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, many tourists, each holding up a ...

Some people in Tibet today also possess some Denisovan ... owe their unique adaptation to oxygen-scarce environments to ancient human interbreeding with Denisovans was first introduced in a ...