Mount Kailas, a white pyramidal mountain in western Tibet, is a mystical locus of four religious groups of Asia: Buddhists, Jains, Hindus and Bonpos, who practice the shamanistic, pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet.
For centuries, Tibet has occupied a unique place in the Western imagination: romantic, mysterious, a remote mountain kingdom of incarnate lamas and nomadic herdsmen, of gold-roofed monasteries and hidden valleys.
A few days before China executed Lobsang Dhondup, South Africa and China signed an "Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Last year, the exiled Dalai Lama of Tibet, in his annual speech to commemorate Tibet Uprising Day on 10 March
In the fall of 1950 the Chinese People's Liberation Army began its invasion and conquest of the Tibet Plateau. Since that time, outside attention has quite properly focused on the suffering of the Tibetan people.
Nathan Gardner, front, and others of the Seattle Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Group, meditate at the Shambhala Center on Capitol Hill. On the surface, a Zen Buddhist looks and behaves quite differently from a Buddhist practicing in the Tibetan or Sri Lankan tradition
The enchanting and ancient city of Leh sprawls out in a valley hidden among the barren Himalayas. Below: Three Buddhist monk children pose for a picture on their way home from school. They belong to the 17th century monastery at Hemis, one of the most important monastic centers in all of Ladakh. (Picture courtesy of Zoltan Istvan)
The small Himalayan city of Leh, in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir near the border of Tibet, awakes to the sound of Muslim and Buddhist prayers broadcast from the main mosque and temple.
The former political prisoner Lobsang Damchoe passed away in Gyantse on 31 January 2003. Lobsang Damchoe, a monk in his late sixties, died after long-term ill health. He had been released from Nyari prison on medical parole in 1999
From its staunch Buddhism to a new anti-Aids campaign, James Pringle in Thimphu finds Bhutan is flourishing between the neighbours from hell. During that first chilly night in Thimphu, the Lilliputian Bhutanese capital, the night belonged to the dogs
