Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in central China that were closed or disrupted two years ago due to conflicts with the government in Beijing are functioning with apparent normalcy this month. The Idiot took an odyssey to
The hottest spots in Lhasa for expats and foreign tourists to network and swap info, both online and off, are the two Tibet Summit Fine Art Cafés owned by a 46-year-old American from Ohio. Doug Wilford, who speaks Chinese
There are only thirty lamas maintaining the estimated 948 rooms in Lhasa’s Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama
One not-so-subtle technique employed by the Chinese government to show who’s the boss in Tibet truly reflects their character(s). Every sign in Tibet uses Chinese characters that are invariably much larger than the corresponding Tibetan script. Even The Idiot gets the message! [caption id=”attachment_1315″ align=”aligncenter” width=”450″ caption=”The only smiling policeman in Lhasa is definitely
Lhasa, Tibet “You will feel like your mind is sublimed and soul purified as we pass the highest freshwater lake in the world,” blared the loudspeaker on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The world’s highest altitude railroad, a construction marvel inaugurated in 2006, reaches an altitude of 5,072 meters (16,640 feet) between Xining and
The Chinese yuan has not only begun fluctuating against the US dollar. It’s also come under attack by a commodity considered to be as good as gold by Tibetan nomads on the Ganjia Grasslands in central China. [caption id=”attachment_1198″ align=”aligncenter” width=”600″ caption=”Nomadic Tibetans arriving
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