At 38, Dawa Tsering often recalls with fondness how hard he used to practise Tibetan writing as a child. "I often wrote on a birch board with a bamboo stick dipped with soya sauce on its sharpened end ...

Language has a strange place in the intangible cultural heritage safeguarding efforts of Chinese governments and UNESCO. Languages themselves are not recognized on UNESCO’s lists nor are there ...

Tashi Wangchuk was sentenced to five years in prison after telling The New York Times that Tibetan language education was being repressed. By Chris Buckley See more of our coverage in your search ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

A Tibetan Girl Called Ata author Zhang Pu explains why his Han-Tibetan love story was banned in China, and why politics, ...

SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China (AP) — First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb ...