Believed to be the earliest inhabitants of Bhutan, the Sharchops are of Indo-Mongolian type, though their exact origin is unknown (Tibet being the most likely source). At present, they live mainly ...

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The sun has slid behind the mountains looming over Thimphu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and the day ... and later absorbed into India), Tibet (invaded by China in 1950), and ...

The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900, seeking a purer version of Buddhism than the one in his homeland. What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi ...

Gonpo Namgyal is the victim of a slow-moving conflict that has dragged on for nearly 75 years, since China invaded Tibet in the mid ... continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education.

BEIJING/KATHMANDU--A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest ... buildings in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and India.

India's diverse border regions with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are famed for their ...

Lieutenant General Batoo Tshering, Chief Operations Officer of the Royal Bhutan Army ... s fallen heroes by laying a wreath at the National War Memorial in Delhi. This solemn gesture was part ...

Journalist and China-watcher Orville Schell, who traveled secretly to Tibet for FRONTLINE in 1994, returns to a story that won't go away. Broadcast on the eve of Chinese premier Jiang Zemin's 1997 ...