TAWANG, India (Reuters) - Perched in the icy folds of the Himalayas near India's border with China, Tawang Buddhist Monastery, where the Dalai Lama made a controversial trip at the weekend, is at the ...

Tucked away in Arunachal Pradesh near the Indo China border, Tawang is not your usual Himalayan getaway. It is vast, remote, and visually overwhelming in a way that feels almost unreal. Snow covered ...

In the shadow of the Himalayas, a centuries-old spiritual tradition is being systematically dismantled under the heavy hand of the Chinese Communist Party. Under the banner of "ethnic unity" and ...

Rising waters from a new dam in central China have submerged the area where a 135-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery once stood, as well as a nearby village, according to experts who viewed satellite ...

Chinese authorities have closed Buddhist schools at two monasteries in Tibetan-populated areas of western China and forced hundreds of novice monks to attend state-run boarding schools that teach a ...

Chinese authorities have begun relocating a 19th-century Buddhist monastery in Tibet that is expected to be submerged underwater after the completion of the world’s tallest 3D-printed hydropower dam, ...

Five young Tibetan former monks who were forced to leave their monastery by Chinese officials and attend a local government-run boarding school attempted to kill themselves in early September, saying ...