A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — Two years after a wave of anti-government violence spread across China’s Tibetan regions, there is a new source of friction in Beijing’s relationship with one of its most restive ...

At his Culturally Curious blog, Matt Adler talks to Columbia University’s Robert Barnett about the complexities of Tibetan language and its situation in China. Both dialects and policies, Barnett ...

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China’s ban on Tibetan language classes has come full circle after a new policy bars children from taking even informal lessons outside of school. “No individual or organization is allowed to hold ...

Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese official said ...

An online beginning Tibetan language course offered at CU Boulder allows learners worldwide to access contemporary resources for a less-frequently taught language A new University of Colorado Boulder ...

When asked about media reports that the Tibetan language has been removed from the college entrance examination, or gaokao, in China's Xizang Autonomous Region and is no longer treated as a main ...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yang, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), center, waves as he arrives in Lhasa to attend the ceremony to ...