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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to a study published in Current Biology on May 22, the genetic components of the ancient populations in the western Tibetan Plateau are closest to ancient populations in the southern Tibetan ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO -- When the Dalai Lama and thousands of his spiritual followers fled Tibet after the Chinese occupation in the 1950s, they were not able to carry out many of their art treasures. During ...

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 ...

When Mordy Levine, a longtime practitioner of Buddhist meditation, turned 60 five years ago, he found himself struggling with the inevitability of death. As he searched for a teacher to guide him on ...

Until now, the only Denisovan remains came from a cave in Siberia. The new find is "much more complete," one expert says. Denisovans, A Mysterious Kind Of Ancient Humans, Are Traced To Tibet The ...