High in the Himalayan region, Tibetan monasteries relied on dogs that carried out work essential to daily life. These dogs ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least two Tibetan Buddhism monastic centres were severely damaged in Tibet with an unknown number of monks and nuns hurt, according to the few state media reports on the damage ...

BEIJING – Tibet's Communist Party chief has demanded that Buddhist monasteries display the national flag as part of efforts to shore up Chinese control over the restive region. In an editorial ...

BEIJING – Chinese security forces have locked down a Tibetan monastery in western China and clashed with local residents as they blocked troops from taking monks away, Tibetan rights groups and an ...

Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only was the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery founded by the first Dalai Lama, but later it became the ...

BEIJING, March 14 -- Police surrounded at least two Buddhist monasteries Thursday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in an attempt to contain an increasingly desperate protest by monks who oppose China's ...

BEIJING » Two people have died in a clash with Chinese police raiding a Tibetan Buddhist monastery where tensions have run high over the recent suicide of a monk, an activist group said Saturday. The ...

Recent standoff between Chinese military forces and Tibetan monks in Ngaba County in Sichuan has been escalating over the past month. The Dalai Lama has now spoken out, hoping Tibetan protesters will ...

Soldiers and police have been deployed around two Buddhist monasteries in Tibet's capital where monks launched protests against Chinese rule earlier this week, witnesses and residents said Thursday. A ...

On April 1, government officials arrived at a remote rural monastery in Markham, Tibet, where local people were completing the construction of a small building in the temple compound to house around ...

At least two Tibetan monastic centres damaged by quake Unknown number of clergy hurt, monasteries affected Buddhist monasteries key to Tibet's cultural identity Some Tibetan monks in the past ...