Lhasa News

I am planning an investigative trip to Tibet next June or July. Advised by my Tibetan friends, I am planning to enter Tibet from Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China. It will take about one month to travel...

China says a 43-year-old woman has died of swine flue in northwest Qinghai province, the second fatality in the country. The official Xinhua News Agency did not give details in their report on Saturday. At the beginning of October an...

Multilingual Dictionary, PDA application, MP3 player and E-Book by Dhawa Dhondup (Acharya) Out of land of snows comes a snow-white digital electronic pocket gadget, produced by a Lhasa-based Tibetan enterprise Tibet Luozang Digital Science & Technology Ltd.

Buddhist temples and rituals, monks and monasteries occupy a central place in the lives of most Tibetans...Fifty years of Chinese government has brought much development, for one thing: new roads, the railway from Beijing, new rules. Still, Lhasa retains its...

Joscelyn Godwin, the author of this beautifully produced book, relates how a symposium on the 400th anniversary of Kircher's birth was announced by a TV station with a ribbon on the screen saying "Was Athanasius Kircher the coolest guy ever,...