An Indian official greets the Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, on the latter’s arrival at a military camp on the frontier of Assam April 18, 1959 in India. In the center is Mr.
March 10 is Tibetan Uprising Day, commemorating the heroic Tibetan resistance against Chinese Communist imperialism. Over the next several days, I will tell the story of the Tibetans' fight against an ...
On March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet amid escalating violence from Chinese troops, feeling compelled to escape due to ...
Melvyn Goldstein, PhD, set out in the mid-1980s to write one book about Tibet history from 1913 to 1959. But 900 pages in, he brought that volume to a close only having reached 1951, when communist ...
In the summer of 1985, Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, was crossing northern Tibet in a borrowed jeep. It was his first journey to the Changtang, a vast ...
Jue Liang & Andrew S. Taylor in Conversation with Padma 'tsho In 1997, the first cohort of women to receive the highest degree in Buddhist philosophical training graduated from the Larung Gar monastic ...