Niangben, a thangka master, introduces his artwork to visitors at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve art gallery in New York on Sunday. Mingmei Li / China Daily Chinese Tibetan traditional ...

Thangka, a traditional Tibetan art form known for its distinct ethnic identity and artistic beauty, was among the first to be included in China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2006.

If you cannot defeat a view, then you are compelled to accept it. The central purposes of Tibetan monastic debate are to defeat misconceptions, to establish a defensible view, and to clear away ...

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This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

The exhibition features 101 objects from the Rubin Museum’s collection as well as multimedia elements—audio, videos, essays, maps, and more—from the Rubin’s recently launched educational initiative, ...

As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

He was unable to satisfactorily answer them, and found this gap in his own knowledge and skill unacceptable to himself. He returned to Kathmandu to the Tibetan Thangka Art School, and learnt about ...

More than a decade has passed since I was last there, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and a previous civil uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Martial law was in effect then ...