Reincarnation, interrupted The most important figure in determining the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is the second-highest authority in the Gelug sect, the Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama ...

More than 14,000 rescue workers have arrived in Tibet to continue the search for survivors after a strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in a remote part of western China.

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025, a picture of Tibetan Buddhist monks clearing debris circulated in posts ...

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Local officials found "no obvious damage" to the region's most significant structures including Tashilhunpo Monastery - the traditional seat of Tibetan Buddhism's second-ranking Panchen Lama ...

The China Earthquake Networks Centre located the epicentre at Tingri county, known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10km. The US Geological Service put the quake's ...

An emergency cultural heritage team on Sunday has headed to Dingjie county, one of the areas affected by the recent 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang Autonomous Region, to conduct inspections on the ...

The documentary airs this weekend… For the first time in nearly 20 years, documentary cameras go undercover inside Tibet ...

The earthquake struck an outlying county in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet and the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. It was not ...

The authorities have yet to reveal how many monasteries and nunneries were damaged. Read more at straitstimes.com.