In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is situated ...

One of the central grievances behind recent unrest in Tibet is the marginalization of Tibetan language. While Tibetan is not among the 40% of China’s minority languages already threatened with ...

BENGALURU: Buoyed by the US Senate and the Congress recently passing ‘The Resolve Tibet Act,’ which is now awaiting Presidential assent, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan ...

Tibetan Government in-Exile President Sikyong Penpa Tsering has announced that they plan to compose a book and map with original names of Tibetan counties. He spoke about China's policy of changing ...

Tibetans often use the term Tibet to refer to a large Tibetan ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and historical area that includes what is now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 7 January 2025 Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the "roof of the world", is governed as part of China. Historically ...

As the Tibetan government-in-exile at Dharamshala is planning to issue a map of Tibet with original names of places and boundaries to counter China’s cartographic aggression, Sikyong (president) Penpa ...