Tea was first brought to Tibet, legend has it, when Tang dynasty Princess Wen Cheng married Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in A.D. 641. Tibetan royalty and nomads alike took to tea for good reasons.

But for centuries, nomadic herders have thrived there, consuming most of what their livestock produce and trading the rest for tea and grain ... collaborated with Goldstein in his studies of Tibetan ...

Thousands of years after the first towns turned into cities and human beings began trading goods with one another, the barter ...

Four monks from Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India, will bring their Ngari Institute's Great Compassion Mandala Tour to the ...

Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are ...

In many Ladakhi villages bordering China, grazing and farming close to the frontier has now been restricted by the Indian military. Boating in the pristine Pangong Tso lake, parts of which are claimed ...

Marina Abramovic has revolutionized the art world with her performance art, becoming an icon in the process. The NZZ speaks ...

The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau ... Just boil a few in a cup of tea, or stew in a soup, or roast in a duck, and all ...

Danielle Dowling Paris Preparing for the Olympics, and millions of sports lovers Already one of the most visited cities in the world, Paris is preparing to welcome millions of travelers this summer as ...

This photo taken on Oct 18, 2024 shows the first International Academic Conference of the "Four Treatises of Tibetan Medicine" in Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua ...

The Chinese fence traces a furrow in the Himalayas, its barbed wire and concrete ramparts separating Tibet from Nepal. Here, in one of the more isolated places on earth, China’s security cameras ...