The Potala Palace in Lhasa. Tibet had been an independent state from about 1912, after the collapse of the Qing dynasty in China, till 1951.(File photo/iStock) Maps of Tibet from the 17th century ...

DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan government in exile, based in Dharamshala, is planning to draw up a map to counter China's tactics of changing the names of places and ...

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 ...

The Tibetan government-in-exile will issue a map of Tibet based on historical records, with original boundaries and names of places, to counter China’s “cartographic aggression” and practice of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China has, in a new map, shown Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of its territory Tibet was an autonomous region till 1951 but Beijing seized it after a 'forced' treaty with local govt India ...

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 ...

Photographer Mikel Dunham has created a map of all the protests taking place in Tibet since the Chinese crackdown. There are at least twenty sites, and it’s a helpful indication of how disperse the ...