A team of scientists from the UK and China have uncovered new evidence, using recently-discovered 25-million-year-old fossilised palm leaves, that Tibet's geography was not as 'high and dry' as ...

India holds a central place in the story of Buddhism’s arrival to Tibet, even as it lies on the geographic periphery of the Himalayan plateau. Peripheral Visions explores images, texts, and narratives ...

Gonkar Gyatso, “Shangri La” (2014) (image courtesy the artist and Pearl Lam Galleries) HONG KONG — In his new show at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong, contemporary Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso uses ...

Charles Ramble (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) will visit CU Boulder to deliver a lecture on "Tibetan Sacred Landscape: Its Magical Creatures and Where to Find Them." The lecture will take ...

For China, the elaborate setting up of a national parks "system", particularly in Tibet is not an end in itself. The formal designation of a landscape as a national park in Tibet does not necessarily ...

NEW YORK, February 21, 2013 — A National Geographic photographer for 33 years, Michael Yamashita spoke here about his most recent project, photographing Tibet, to which he has been committed for the ...

Researchers examine how topography shaped ancient Tibet's biotic evolution. Due to sparse fossil records, the topography of ancient Tibet and its impact on the region's biodiversity are unclear. To ...