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Top: Climbers Jimmy Chin, Rick Ridgeway, and Conrad Anker haul a custom-built aluminum rickshah through a narrow gorge on China's remote Chang Tang Plateau. The expedition team used rickshahs to transport 30-day supplies of provisions during their month-long trek; Bottom: A newborn chiru calf. Conservationists hope to sway the Chinese government to expand nature preserves to protect the key Tibetan antelope calving ground. (Photographs copyright Galen Rowell, National Geographic Society)

Despite China's five-decade occupation of Tibet, the centuries-old spiritual and cultural traditions of the country sometimes referred to as the Rooftop of World have managed to endure to the present day.

Narayan Shrestha has made his home in Boulder after leaving a small village in Nepal in the late 1970s. (Cliff Grassmick)

Driving past Hedgerow Farm or seeing the snowcapped Rockies reminds Tamding Wangdu of the pastoral lifestyle he left behind a decade ago this May when he became part of a resettlement that brought more than 20 Tibetans to Boulder.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Thursday called for prayers for peace in Iraq. "The war has started but we cannot do anything. We can only pray," the Lama said while giving a public teaching here.

Session in progress on the second day: Members of 13th Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies have arrived in Dharamsala to attend the fifth Parliamentary session. The session will go on till 31st March.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Tsuk Lakhang during the teaching on ‘Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara’ (Engaging in the Bodhisattava way of life) and ‘Lojong Nymai Woesr’ (Training the mind to make it as clear as the sun rays). The teaching will go on till 1st of April.

At a time of turbulence in the world, Tibetan monks continue to preach peace and harmony. Traveling around the globe, monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in southern India are spreading a message of unity and compassion, while sharing their culture with the public.

At the first official screening of her second work ‘Destiny’s Children’, Pimmi Pande shared her thoughts about the film and her relation with the Tibetan issue.

The Tibetan Medical Centre at Mahalakshmi Layout in Bangalore draws more Indian patients than Tibetans, and it makes for an awesome reflection that at this centre, healing comes from the revelations of Buddha in his manifestation as the Bhaishajyaguru