Tibetan uses an alphasyllabary, meaning consonants carry inherent vowels, but that’s just the start. Over 1,200 years old, the script has barely changed since it was created to translate ...

With Beijing eager to control the Tibetan centuries-old reincarnation process, a spiritual question has become fused to a ...

China has long been accused of repression in Tibet and a new report based on rare firsthand accounts from people inside the region sheds light on the way authorities are trying to erase local culture ...

The Tibetan language and its script remain inseparable from the practices of followers of the ancient Nalanda tradition, according to the CTA statement.

Islamic conquests from the eighth century replaced Brahmi-derived scripts with Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama has revealed his succession plan, stating that he will be reincarnated after his ...

Distressed Tibetan children as young as four sent to Chinese state-run boarding schools for indoctrination have been beaten for praying and wearing Buddhist blessing cords, forced to sleep on ...

The CCP is expected to try to hijack the succession, as it did in 1995 when it put up its own candidate for Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama's choice, ...

Sakya Monastery in the county, the earliest monastery of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, is located just 71 kilometers ...