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The ruins of an ancient Tibetan kingdom are set to become a major tourist attraction, report Luo Wangshu in Zanda county, Ngari prefecture, and Da Qiong in Lhasa.
2015-09-14
In the early 7th century, Songtsan Gambo, the 33rd Tsenpo, or king, of the Tubo tribe, who was also the highest-ranked leader in Tibet, united more than 10 tribes to establish an e...
Although Buddhism arrived in the region around the mid-7th century, when Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) left Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi provin...
2015-08-31
In old Tibet, the basic economic unit of land occupation, distribution and operation was the manor, while that of the pastoral area was the tribe, in charge of grassland, livestock...
2015-08-25
The Empire of Tibet was one of the major powers struggling for control and influence in central Asia from the 7th to the 9th centuries. Over the years Tibet was in conflict with Ch...
2015-08-14
This year is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Tibet Autonomous Region. In the past 50 years, the central government has paid close attention to Tibet and offered much suppor...
2015-07-28
A number of Tibetan sources trace the origin of human beings in the region back to the prehistoric inhabitants. Some documents of the Bon religion, the indigenous religion of Tibet...
2015-07-24
Surrounding the Jokhang Temple, which sits on the Barkhor Street is the center of Lhasa, which means the "Buddha's Place". The Jokhang Temple is the center of Tibetan people...
2015-07-23
Princess Wencheng (625-680 A.D.), of Han ethnicity, was born into a family that was a distant relative of the Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). In 640 A.D., the Empe...
In 1788, on an excuse of a problem in exchanging money and a higher tax imposed on trade, the Ghurkas, a branch of Nepalese tribes, dispatched over 3,000 soldiers to occupy Jilong,...
2015-07-21
The ancient tribe "Sheboye", the ancestor of the Tubo Kingdom (618-842A.D.), inhabited in what is now Chongye County of Lhoka Prefecture. Historical legends about "Sheboye" have it...
2015-07-09
In the following 370 years after the downfall of the united Tubo kingdom, there was no powerful, united rule on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so scholars call it "the divided and sepa...
2015-06-22
