Lama Ngawang Peljor looks at Mount Qomolangma at the Rongpo Monastery in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Purbu Tashi) As the first ray of sunshine reaches the tip of a stupa outside ...

As a beacon of resistance, she could not look more vulnerable. Ngawang Sangdrol is just over 5ft tall and very slight. It is hard to imagine how a man armed with an iron bar could attack her, let ...

Movie Review | 'Tibet in Song' By Neil Genzlinger Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who was imprisoned by the Chinese for more than six years, would have had a compelling film had he simply ...

Ahead of his set at WOMAD, the Tibetan talks to Julia Llewllyn Smith about mandolins, monasteries and his painful exile New dawn: Ngawang Lodup, the Tibetan former monk, will play WOMAD festival this ...

Lamas seeking the religion's most-advanced academic title are judged by 20 examiners and 400 peers in preliminary tests Ngawang Sogdoi, a 34-year-old monk in the Tibet autonomous region, is the most ...

Alan Davey, Controller of BBC Radio 3 announced today [Sunday 26 July] that BBC Introducing Act, Ngawang Lodup’s next engagement, following the BBC Radio 3 Charlie Gillett stage at WOMAD, will be at ...

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa made history as the first people to summit Everest, the term Sherpa became synonymous with porters. But behind the name is a deep culture, with a long ...

BEIJING — BEIJING -- Days before a U.S.-China presidential summit, Chinese authorities have paroled a Tibetan nun thought to be one of the youngest and longest-serving female political prisoners in ...

Their Tibetan heritage is part of who they are. So is the electronic music they create. To Ngawang and Tenzin Samphel, success is making a living through electronic dance music. Their future looks ...

LHASA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- As the first ray of sunshine reaches the tip of a stupa outside Rongpo Monastery, Ngawang Paljor braces against the wind and begins his walk along a winding path, chanting ...

A lama claps while debating during the seven-day preliminary examination for the Geshe Lharampa in Drepung Monastery in the Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] Lamas seeking the religion's ...