For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai ...

Fourteen years after it was last performed, a “walking play” about the life and teachings of the Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is returning to Minneapolis. The play, called “The Buddha Prince,” was co ...

Gebey, a Tibetan singer who had been detained at the end of May following a live performance in Ngaba Prefecture, eastern Tibet, has been released from detention. Gebey (sometimes spelled Gaybay or ...

Musicologist Ngawang Choepel, a Tibetan exile in Dharamsala, India, returned to his homeland in 1995 to archive vanishing native folk songs but fell afoul of the occupying Chinese government; it ...

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

Nawang Khechog says he can't imagine not living in the mountains; they are where he will always feel most free. "I'm a mountain man," says the Tibetan flute player, who grew up in the Himalayas and is ...

iTunes Store was blocked in China two weeks after an album released by Tibet activists appeared. But now that the Olympics are over, it's available once again. Graham Webster Formerly a journalist and ...

After the 2015 earthquake, many mountain communities in Nepal stopped celebrating festivals because they were in mourning. More than three years later, devotional songs are being heard again. Last ...

Hello, city-lovers! Today Song Lee tells us about all of the great things to see, do, and eat in Tibet’s capital city. Want to see your city on IT? Copy and paste our list of fill-in-the-blank ...

In 1995, Ngawang Choephel returned to his native Tibet to document the country’s fast-disappearing folk-singing tradition. Instead, he was accused of being a spy and sentenced to 18 years in prison by ...