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Mr Everest is king of the Himalayan-Tibet Collision Zone

About 50 million years ago, India collided with Asia producing the high Himalayas and Tibetan plateau, a natural laboratory for studying continental collision. During the collision, the Indian lithosphere was dragged down beneath the

The Canada Tibet Committee Toronto (CTC) and Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) chapter at the University of Toronto will host a talk by monks from the historic Tashi Lhunpo monastery in Tibet.

Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya leaves for Washington Friday for bilateral talks amid requests by the United States to contribute Nepali troops to an international force in Iraq.

On July 11, Tserang Dondrup (also known as Jortse) was reportedly released after a year in custody. According to local reports, he is in poor health, cannot walk or see and "his hands were not working." His speech is also reportedly unintelligible.

Prayer flags are hung for missing relatives at the site of a landslide in Danba county in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province. More than 50 people are missing and one person is confirmed dead after a massive mudslide was dislodged by flash floods.

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A Rochester church promotes peace and unity through an ancient art. It is called Mandala painting. Tibetan monks use colored sand funneled through a metal tube to create an image.

Leh, July 16 - Tibetan Buddhists in the Himalayan region of Ladakh recently celebrated the two-day Hemis festival. The main function was held at the isolated monastery of Hemis, 45 kilometers from Leh, capital of Ladakh.

Bhutanese spiritual leader-turned film director Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche looks at a trailer of his latest film, "Travellers and Magicians" on a laptop computer in New Delhi(AFP/File/Rob Elliot)