The 18-year-old, who has scaled the world’s 14 highest peaks, said Sherpas ‘are not just guides, we are trailblazers’.

Ethnic conflicts have become a global problem with serious regional cross-border implications. Scholarly concern with ethnic groups and conflict have become increasingly salient since the second half of the twentieth century. An estimate shows that one-third of all countries...

Two of the minds behind The Animated History of Tibet talk with Tricycle about the show’s creation, pivotal figures, and what it means to tell the story from a distinctively Tibetan perspective. The post Building a Historical Narrative of...

A National Geographic team found the boot and foot of whom it suspects to be Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, a 22-year-old climber who went missing on Mount Everest a century ago.

Constant military patrols near the Indo-China border have shrunk pastures and are extinguishing tradition.

Nepalis have complained that China’s breaches of the border threaten their land and their way of life.

London — The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed an emergency resolution Thursday condemning the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghurs and urging China to immediately and unconditionally release detainees, including Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas. The resolution is fueled by...

English mountaineer Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine vanished on a trek to Mount Everest's summit with his climbing partner George Mallory in 1924.

Click to expand Image Workers are seen at the Sitong Bridge in Beijing on October 14, 2022, where protest banners with slogans criticizing the Communist Party's policies were hanged the day before. © 2022 Noel CelisAFP via Getty Images...

As Israel continues its assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran appears increasingly backed into a corner. Israel’s efforts to weaken Iran’s proxy network have focused on a number of objectives: eliminating key Hezbollah leaders, destroying their weapons and other...

Beijing’s economic and political ties with Nepal make life increasingly hard for the 10,000 Tibetans who escaped there.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Chinese authorities have been harassing Chinese citizens living in Japan who have engaged in activities Beijing considers subversive, a report by Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s achievement highlights the role of Sherpas in an activity where they shoulder much of the risk but receive little glory.

taipei, taiwan — China has used transnational harassment and intimidation to prevent Chinese people living in Japan from engaging in protests and activism, a new report by Human Rights Watch said. Most of the 25 Chinese people interviewed by Human...

Click to expand Image Protesters rally in Tokyo to support the victims of a recent fire in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region, November 30, 2022. © 2022 Hiro Komae/AP Photo (Tokyo) – Chinese authorities are seeking to intimidate...

Nepali climber Nima Rinji Sherpa is no stranger to the world’s high places, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers.

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAsk Amy: what’s the parliamentary gameplan for the day?As Martin and the team have laid out, the government is very keen to have people refocus on...

By Rebecca Bailey and Celia Cazale At a laboratory in Beijing, purple and green hybrid-species grapes are laid out on a board for testing, part of the strategy China’s nascent wine industry is using to try to combat climate...

A teaching and practice on the Four Yogas of Dzogchen Semde. The post Finding Presence appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology claims that China has been withholding vital information on glacial lakes under its control in Tibet.

Xiangba Qupei faced punishment for "divulging sensitive information," which actually referred to sharing the teachings and thoughts of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.

President William Lai (賴清德) on Tuesday last week said that “Taiwan would absolutely not sign a cross-strait peace accord,” underlining that peace should be achieved from a position of strength....

A Thai ghost story told by the late Forest Tradition teacher Ajaan Suwat Suvaco The post The Corpse on Her Lap appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Chinese authorities transferred the last students from a closed Tibetan Buddhist monastery school in Sichuan to state-run schools, impacting 600 students and requiring parents to enroll them in government institutions.