Historically, Tibet was made up of three major areas - U-Tsang, Amdo and Kham. While most of U-Tsang is in China's self-defined Tibet Autonomous Region, the other two lie outside it. Tibet's ...

in Tibet's province of Amdo, has died after he went missing for several days. Sources told CTA website that Chinese officials have notified senior religious figures at Lungngon Monastery of his ...

A study of celibacy among monks in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries has shed ... Researchers say these villages are inhabited by patriarchal Amdo Tibetans who raise herds of yaks and goats, farming ...

QINGHAI, Northwest China — A few minutes after 9 p.m., Kharze and three other apprentices finally put down their paint brushes inside their small studio near Wutun, a village in the historically ...

commemorated the life and sacrifice of Tibetan monk Lobsang Phuntsok, who tragically self-immolated on March 16, 2011, in Ngaba, Amdo, at the age of 21. The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh ...