Is there anything more exciting than stepping onto a train? The moment when you have one foot on a platform and the other on the ledge in the train door is a huge thrill. When the journey that awaits ...

Focused on the population substructures within Tibetans, we further observed three different sub-clusters: the high-altitude Tibet-Ü-Tsang cluster (Lhasa, Nagqu, Shannan and Shigatse), Gan-Qing-Ando ...

Thousands of monks will gather at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa to worship Sakyamuni, perform religious rituals ... The unveiling of a giant Thangka (a sacred Buddhist painting) is a centuries-old ...

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We recently found a map at an estate sale from 1906. We used the map to track down an area where an old town was in hopes of finding valuable antique bottles and relics. What we discover is NOT GOOD!

The two main pathways passed through cities like Dali and Lijiang in Yunnan province, and reached Lhasa in Tibet, before entering the Indian subcontinent where ... The UNESCO website says, “From the ...

Gyalo Thondup in 2008: ‘I genuinely believed that the Americans wanted to help us fight for our independence. Eventually I realised that was not true…’ - Alamy ...

Residents sweep through a market in Barkhor Shopping Mall in Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, in preparation for the Losar New Year's celebration. [Photo by Palden Nyima/chinadaily.com.cn] As the ...