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Nepal The wind-scoured desert valley here, just south of Tibet , was once a famed transit point for the Tibetan yak caravans laden with salt that lumbered over the icy ramparts of the Himalayas. In the 1960s, it became a base for Tibetan guerrillas
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Tears of Tibet' at the European Parliament in Brussels on 10 April. EP's action for a peaceful solution and to discuss how to change the approach and strategy in order to help the Tibetan people. It expressed its belief that the EU should have a
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Two Tibetan monks in their early 20s set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule near dozens of pilgrims who had gathered for prayers to mark the end of the Tibetan New Year festival, a Tibet rights group said...One of the monks, Tsesung
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December 18, 2012 A volunteer looks at a photo during an exhibition highlighting recent reported self-immolation victims in Tibet, presented by Amnesty International's Taiwan branch in Taipei on June 29, 2012. Chinese police have recently put out a
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China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports 40-year-old monk Lorang Konchok and his 31-year-old nephew Lorang Tsering are in custody. They're accused of encouraging eight people to set themselves on fire, three of the eight died as a result. China's
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow One of a half-dozen newly restored Buddhist buildings at the Hall or Rectitude, or Zhong Zheng Dian, in the Forbidden City, Beijing. Didi Kirsten Tatlow A Yamantaka mandala dating from the 18th-century reign of Emperor Qianlong of
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An overseas rights group says another Tibetan has died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule. The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said Monday that a 24-year-old man set fire to himself Saturday evening in front of a
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An exile Tibetan carries a portrait of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a candlelit vigil Dharmsala, India, yesterday. The vigil was held to express solidarity with a young Tibetan Dorjee Lhundrup who allegedly immolated himself in
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A writer who spoke out against Chinese repression towards Tibet has burned himself to death, a rights group said, the 53rd person to set themselves ablaze protesting Beijing's rule. The International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement that Gudrub,
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As the letter from the Chinese consulate makes clear, the government there isn't ignoring Lin's attempt to promote political independence for Tibet and his native Taiwan. The letter was a surprise to Julie Manning, the mayor of the small college town,
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