Big mineral find made China build Tibet rail

What motivated China to spend a colossal $3.7 billion on the Tibet railway? At least one of the secret reasons has now tumbled out. Chinese geologists have disclosed having found 16 large

Long-distance prostrating pilgrimage

Sherab Gyalsten has already been on the road for one year and eight months. He doesn’t run or walk. Instead, the Buddhist monk from Tibet takes three and a half steps forward, then prostrates flat

Looking Back From Nangpa-La -Jamyang Norbu

In 1994 when I was the editor of the Tibetan language paper MANGTSO, an informant from Solokhumbu sent me a photograph of a Tibetan man, an escapee, who had died somewhere on the Nepalese side of Nangpa-la. His stiff curled-up