The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

DHARAMSHALA, 31 Mar: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was awarded the prestigious Gold Mercury Award for Peace and Sustainability at a special ceremony held at his residence in Dharamshala, ...

State-sponsored archaeological excavations, exhibitions, and research projects on Zhangzhung are being interpreted in ways ...

Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans ...

Storytellers like Sithar Dorje are rare, most of them are just part-time performers — they tend to their herds during the day ...

Lhamo, meaning "fairy," is a common name for women of the Tibetan ethnic group, and it also appears in the names of Penpa Lhamo's mother and grandmother. However, the three generations of "Lhamo" have ...

For decades, Western political powers—led by the United States and echoed by the European Parliament—have poured considerable ...

Ukraine folk music enters the modern era thanks to luminaries Yа́gody, who perform at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tradition meets the theatrical in their concert in early April.

In the Dalai Lama’s new memoir, Voice for the Voiceless, the spiritual leader directly addresses Tibet’s struggle for ...

KUNMING -- A research team has discovered a new lichen genus on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as the "roof of the world." The genus has been named Pseudosolorina. The team's findings ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought to be uninhabitable ...

March 10 is known as “Tibetan Uprising Day.” The ruling Chinese have done to Tibet what they are now doing in the Xinjiang region, where the Uyghurs live. That is: all things Tibetan, and all things ...