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Tibet (; , ; ) is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A Tibetan writer posted photos online Friday allegedly showing scenes from two self-immolations in Lhasa, the latest in a series of anti-government suicide protests but the first in the tightly guarded regional capital.
There have been more than three dozen Tibetan self-immolations in China since March last year, but the two Sunday were the first reported in Lhasa. Protests have become rare in remote Tibet and Lhasa in particular because of tight police security that has blanketed the capital since anti-government riots erupted there in 2008.Beijing-based Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser posted the images to her blog and Twitter feed and told The Associated Press that she did not know who took the photos but that they were forwarded to her by someone she trusts.The four images show recognizable buildings and stupas close to the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa where state media say the two men lit themselves on fire Sunday afternoon.Woeser's captions say two of the images are of 25-year-old Dhargye...Indian authorities have dropped charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader involving $1.35 million in cash discovered at his monastery in norther...
For more than a year the deadly protests have swept the Tibetan plateau, waves of people burning themselves alive in a widening challenge to Chinese rule.The prime m...
China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support fo...
BEIJING (AP) — A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an...
BEIJING -- Another Tibetan has set himself on fire in western China to protest government policies while thousands marched in another part of China to show support f...
The U.S. Senate panel that oversees foreign policy is calling on China to cease what it describes as repressive policies targeting Tibetans.A resolution approved Tue...
Chinese officials sought Wednesday to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals ...
A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit by China's president and amid a seri...
A newly discovered skeleton from an ancient three-toed horse not only provides information about ancient Tibetan wildlife, but it also sheds light on the habitat and...
The elected prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, says a grand religious gathering starting Wednesday in Washington will allow expatriate Ti...
Video obtained by an overseas pro-Tibet group shows Chinese security forces beating a man who had set himself on fire in one of several self-immolations by Tibetans ...
BEIJING (AP) — One of Tibet's richest businessmen has been sentenced to life in prison for helping exile groups, a human rights organization said Thursday, the lates...
A mother of three is the latest Tibetan to self-immolate to protest Chinese rule, reports said Thursday, while authorities have rounded up hundreds of people after t...
Two men engulfed themselves in a burst of flames outside a Buddhist temple popular with tourists and pilgrims in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-...
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DHARMSALA, India -- Chinese repression has lead to the self-immolations of nearly two dozen Tibetans and deadly clashes with Chinese authorities, the head of Tibet's...
There is great fear and tension on the streets of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.The most recent crackdown in Tibet by Chinese security forces has turned the historic ca...
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape inter...
An overseas activist group says two lay Tibetans have set themselves on fire in front of a monastery in eastern Tibet.London-based Free Tibet says Sonam and Choephak...
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