A drone aerial photo captures the refreshing summer scenery over part of the highway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, July 16, 2019.
TIBET — Two days ahead of the Year of the Earth Pig, people in the Tibet autonomous region have geared...
The Tibet autonomous region plans to cut the time for issuing travel permits to overseas tourists by half in 2019.
Top British DJ Paul Oakenfold braved thinning air and freezing temperatures to host the "highest party on earth" at Everest base camp on Tuesday, playing to around 100 climbers -- all in full mountain gear.
It was high noon and I was gasping for breath as my trekking companions and I crossed Ganda La, a high mountain pass in the Himalayas. At close to 5,000 meters above sea level, the pass along a barren rocky terrain can easily make one dizzy.
On the northern bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo River is the Samye Monastery. Boasting a 1,300-year history, this monastery in Shannan, in the southern part of the Tibet autonomous region, is the earliest Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Five years ago, painter and Buddhist practitioner Mariko Jacinto went on a pilgrimage to Tibet and took a side trip to Rongbuk Monastery at the Everest Base Camp to explore how China controlled the monks.
In an effort to gather more information about the Tea Horse Trade, I drove out to the village of Shu-he. Here, a museum had been set up by a private company to commemorate the age-old exchange of horses and tea leaves between China and Tibet.
Aside from the famous Silk Road, there was another lesser known network of paths used by what is now called the Tea Horse Trade. This Trade involved the ancient exchange between China and Tibet, with tea coming from the former and horses from the latter.
The visit to the country this week of an eminent holy man has highlighted a controversial issue within the Karma Kagyu, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
