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Losar, the Tibetan New Year, begins with a spoonful of dessert. Dresyl, also known as deysee, is a warm dish of sweetened rice that women make for their families on the morning of this festive day. “In Tibet, we would add droma, which tastes like a chewy sweet potato

About 200 people attended a memorial service for Jigme Norbu, the Dalai Lama's nephew who was killed last month on an advocacy walk for Tibet

The United States Congress has formed a bipartisan caucus on Nepal, co-chaired by Republican Congressman Ander Crenshaw and Democratic Congressman Jared Polis. This is the first-ever caucus on Nepal in the

The Chinese government has yet again pledged to increase its financial assistance to Nepal, a move apparently seen to further strengthen its growing influence in the impoverished Himalayan country.

The conference discussed a wide range of issues from advocacy on Tibet to ways and means of challenging PRC's effort to sow dissension among the Tibetans; from Chinese outreach to outreach to Mongolian and Himalayan peoples; from preservation of Tibetan culture and

Organizers of an online anti-government campaign called Monday for new rallies in China on March 6 despite a smothering security response at the weekend that saw foreign journalists roughed up

Tibetan-Americans have converged in Washington to meet US lawmakers seeking Congressional support for concrete legislative measures to promote a political solution for Tibet

Tibetan monk from Labrang Tashikhyil Monastery in eastern Tibet’s Amdo Province, who took part in the 2008 peaceful protests against Chinese rule, has died due to prolonged illness, a Tibetan NGO said Wednesday

The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has denied reports in sections of the media, especially the Indian Express (Chandigarh) that the Tibetan leader discussed recent events concerning the 17th Gyalwang Karm

In 2004, two years after he climbed Mt Everest for the seventh time, American mountaineering legend Peter Athans took part in a charitable cataract operation project in northern Nepal that changed the lives of nearly 300 beneficiaries