(2000 est. pop. 400,000). Presently capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and historically the capital of the Tibetan state, Lhasa is situated in the central Tibetan province of U on the Kyushu River at a...

Lhasa, sometimes spelled Lasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Lhasa is located at the foot of Mount Gephel. The city is the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama and...

A boom in car ownership has brought traffic jams to Tibet's once-tranquil capital and prompted it to open its first underground parking lot, state media reported Wednesday.Lhasa has 400,000 people and 70,000 registered vehicles, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The numbers give it a per...

China's high-speed, high-altitude railway to Tibet carried troops to the region for the first time, state media has reported, in a development likely to fuel concerns about the railway's impact on the restive Himalayan area.The brief Xinhua News Agency report late Friday did not say...

Three crimson-robed monks chant quietly as they file through the ancient palace, pausing every now and then to pray in the candlelit rooms filled with Buddhist statues and religious murals.At the Potala Palace, the mountaintop Tibetan landmark where the Dalai Lama lived until he fled...

Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled by three locomotives instead of the usual one....