In their 1990 book Nomads of Western Tibet, they described how the inhabitants of the Pala district experienced the transition from the traditional society to Chinese rule. They collected accounts of ...

Western images of Mongols often depict horse-riding nomads, living in yurts, or tents ... Another lasting legacy of imperial Tibet is Buddhism. The first Tibetan emperors invited Buddhist monks from ...

China and the Tibetans China 'resettles two million Tibetans' The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world China's submission for the listing estimates that 50,000 people roam the area ...

This story appears in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine. Watching his daughter on a homemade ladder smoothing varnish over the red-and-yellow trim of their large new log house ...

When in 1949 the Chinese Communist Party “liberated” the ethnocultural frontier region known to Tibetans as Amdo, its goal was not just to build a state, but to create a nation. Rather than ...

Up the valley we pass the black tents of Tibetan nomads. Parked in front of many of the yak hair tents are big Chinese trucks or Land Cruisers. Where did nomads get the money to buy such vehicles?

The authorities in communist-ruled China released a popular Tibetan monk and poet after four years in jail, triggering jubilation from Tibetan netizens, says a report. Gendun Lhundrub, 50, who was ...