Nearly 300 houses were destroyed or dismantled in a fire that destroyed the majority of Dukezong in Shangri-La county, China, on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist ...

Milk — whether from a cow, plant, or nut — is often said to do a body good, but would you believe it also may have helped build civilizations? That’s according to new findings published Wednesday in ...

BEIJING (AP) — The government of Tibet’s capital city has begun a seven-month, 1.2 billion yuan ($196 million) project to help preserve Lhasa’s ancient heart. State-owned China Tibetan News, citing a ...

Roughly 3500 years ago, inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau began exploiting dairy pastoralism as way to secure a mobile supply of food and adapt to the region’s cold, arid environment, according to an ...

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...

LHASA, China, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Once the site of violent clashes between Tibetans and Chinese security forces, the ancient area of Barkhor in the Tibetan capital has become one of the safest places ...

Below, Ann Tashi Slater shares five key insights from her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. Traveling in Bardo interweaves explorations of impermanence in our ...

While analyzing core samples from an ancient Tibetan glacier, scientists found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before. As Ohio State University explained in a ...

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