(MENAFN- GetNews) Morning light spills across the stone paths of Mo'erduo Mountain, and the everyday rhythms of Jikayi Village slowly spread along the slopes. In a courtyard, villagers wipe butter tea ...
QINGHAI, Northwest China — A few minutes after 9 p.m., Kharze and three other apprentices finally put down their paint brushes inside their small studio near Wutun, a village in the historically ...
(MENAFN- GetNews) In the heart of the Tibetan-Qiang-Yi corridor, amidst the deep folds of Mo'erduo Mountain, 22 millennium-old watchtowers stand like silent guardians, watching over the morning mist ...
“There is a lot of work to be done in the summer,” says Tibetan nomad Yama in Summer Pasture, a documentary directed by Lynn True and Nelson Walker (working with co-director Tsering Perlo). The film ...
In a remote corner of China, an atelier is bolstering the economy of a small village—and giving Tibetan culture global reach. With half-frozen fingers, I googled “Do vultures attack humans?” on my ...
For decades, Tibetans built a capital-in-exile in Dharamshala in India, and they sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. But their numbers are now decreasing. When the Dalai Lama fled ...
DHARAMSHALA, India — Boys and girls harmonize together as their music teacher Tenzin Nordel leads them through a Tibetan song in a classroom overlooking an alpine forest. Theater kids practice Tibetan ...
Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a sociologist and expert in Chinese education. Born in the traditional Tibetan region Amdo (in Gansu Province under the PRC), ...