Sky Burial follows the ritual of "jha-tor", the giving of alms to birds in a northern Tibetan monastery - where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to ...

About 1,000 of the earthquake-proof and heated houses are being sent to Tingri and can be erected in about 10 minutes, ...

Sogyal Lakar, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher accused of widespread physical and sexual abuse, has died aged 72. Lakar, better known as Sogyal Rinpoche, sold millions of books and was widely seen as ...

The people of Leh, the capital of Ladakh where Tenzin lived, and the Tibetan community came together to bid him farewell in a grand funeral, complete with military honours, including a 21-gun salute.

STORY: An unknown number of people are still unaccounted for after Tibet's 6.8 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.The tremor rocked the Himalayan foothills, destroying buildings and shifting the region's ...