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...

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...

The Tibetan Government-in-Exile quoting a Paris-based rights group, said, two Tibetans youths, identified as Gyaltsing and Nyima Wangdu, had just been given three-year jail sentences for posting photos of the Dalai Lama online. 'The exact date of their conviction was...

One month after the event at the Yarlung Bird Temple, a similar ceremony took place at the monastery of Reting, founded by Atisha’s chief disciple Dromtonpa in 1056. This important Kadampa center is located in a beautiful valley eighty kilometers...

Court documents relating to one of three Tibetans believed to have been executed by Chinese authorities for their part in the Lhasa unrest of March 2008 have confirmed the identity of one of the men. According to the documents, judicial...