Please join us for the opening reception of Daniel Miller’s exhibition and talk on 'Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya' in Norlin Library’s Underground West ...

China’s sedentarisation of Tibetan nomads in Amdo, Qinghai, and Sichuan—framed as modernization and ecological protection—has ...

From its opening moments, when a camera follows a Tibetan nomad riding a horse across a rocky, windswept hilltop, "The Saltmen of Tibet" reveals a landscape and a people that are rarely seen by ...

For decades he and his wife grazed yaks and sheep, living a life little changed in centuries, until they acquiesced three years ago to government calls to give up their yak-hair tents for permanent ...

Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years. Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope ...

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to ...

Traveling into China’s hidden Tibet reveals a world shaped by altitude, tradition, and a way of life that still follows the land. Far from cities and tourist routes, real Tibetan nomads continue to ...

LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...

GARZE, China — American photographer Eleanor Moseman was documenting Tibetan life when the coronavirus crept into one of China’s most remote areas. She had made the journey to celebrate the Tibetan ...

Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world. Sign up here ...

(MENAFN- AFP) By mid-morning, Lobsang's leather cowboy hat is askew, his black robes dishevelled, and his breath stinks of booze. Once a nomad herder roaming the high Tibetan plateau, instead he ...