BEIJING – Tibet's Communist Party chief has demanded that Buddhist monasteries display the national flag as part of efforts to shore up Chinese control over the restive region. In an editorial ...

Soldiers and police have been deployed around two Buddhist monasteries in Tibet's capital where monks launched protests against Chinese rule earlier this week, witnesses and residents said Thursday. A ...

In a remote corner of China, an atelier is bolstering the economy of a small village—and giving Tibetan culture global reach.

Monasteries across Tibet and in Tibetan-populated areas of China marked the death anniversary of one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most significant teachers on Dec.1, drawing large crowds closely watched by ...

(New York) – The Chinese government has ended a key policy of allowing Tibetan monasteries to be run by monks who comply with government regulations and have instead introduced a system that will ...

The Chinese state has used the coronavirus pandemic to deepen its advance into the private and devotional lives of Tibetans. Troops facing pilgrims at the Monlam Chenmo prayer festival in Kumbum, ...

BEIJING, March 14 -- Police surrounded at least two Buddhist monasteries Thursday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in an attempt to contain an increasingly desperate protest by monks who oppose China's ...

A new study of the snow leopard’s habitat across the Tibetan plateau has found that Tibetan Buddhist monasteries may be better equipped than formal preservation programmes to protect the endangered ...

(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately end excessive restrictions on Kirti monastery in the Aba (“Ngawa” in Tibetan) prefecture of Sichuan province, and lift similarly heavy-handed ...

Buddhism is becoming very popular in China. It turned one Tibetan Buddhist monastery into a thriving pilgrimage site - that is, until this year when it possibly got too popular. NPR's Emily Fang ...