The people of Tibet inhabit the Tibetan Plateau, the highest continuous landmass in the world, which averages over 3,500 meters in height, including the Himalayas in the south, the Zangbo (or Brahmaputra) River Valley, and the northern Changthang...

The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the West to Myanmar and China in the East. The Government of Tibet in Exile claims that the number of Tibetans has fallen from 6,330,567 to 5.4...

NEW YORK-Most rug companies specializing in Tibetan rugs are foreign-owned, but a handful are owned by ethnic Tibetans who feel a strong personal need to help their people. Nepal is home to 25,000 of the 131,000 Tibetans who remain in exile as...

The Tibetans, by Matthew T. Kapstein. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xxiv + 360 pp. £25.00/US$29.95/AUS$96.95 (hardcover). It takes a special confidence to title one's book The Tibetans, given the numerous gauntlets of territorialism in expertise found in the disciplinary fields feeding Tibetan studies...

The Dalai Lama says he may appoint a successor or rely on an election before his death in a break with tradition, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday, following recent orders that China must approve Tibet's spiritual leaders.According to centuries of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the search...