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

" Kha means 'mouth', and sey means 'snack'," said chef Yeshi Jampa, co-author of the book Taste Tibet and founder of the eponymous Taste Tibet restaurant in Oxford. "It's a symbol of [Tibetan] New ...

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

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.

With profound grief, Tibetans across the world mourn the passing of Gyalo Thondup, a veteran Tibetan political figure and elder brother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. He dedicated his life to ...

The history of Bon can be traced to the ancient shamanistic traditions of the Tibetan plateau. Initially, Bon was not a single, unified religion but a collection of beliefs and practices related to ...

Members of a team consisting of five Tibetan women inspect cultural relics in Nagqu Prefecture, Southwest China's Xizang ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Scientists have been able to revive 33 types of ancient viruses, which are thought to have been frozen in the ice of the Guliya ice cap in the Tibetan Plateau 15,000 years ago. Of those ...

which are pushing up an ancient sea that is now the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. The entire plateau is seismically active, as well as its eastern and northern rims, which overlap with the Chinese ...