A study published in the journal Nature highlights a close historical link between periods of drought and political instability in China, demonstrating that climate change played an essential role in ...

The Shinjuku Historical Museum Hall in Tokyo hosted a gathering of Tibetans and Japanese sympathizers recently, to commemorate the 112th anniversary of the Declaration of Tibetan Independence Day. The ...

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

Young actors make preparations in the dressing room of Tibetan Opera Art Center in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Tom Robbins moved to the Pacific Northwest in the early '60s and was assigned to review an opera for the Seattle Times. He lived in La Conner for over five decades.

NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball ...

Your books make me laugh, they make think ...,” one fan told Tom Robbins, “and they make me aware of all the wonder in the ...

China hopes the current Dalai Lama could "return to the right path" and fully remedy his political propositions, the Chinese ...

Thondup was 97 and had been suffering from age-related ailments for a long time; he lived with his two sons and their ...

Tom Robbins, the literary prankster-philosopher who charmed, enlightened and addled millions of readers with such adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died ...

The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the exiled Tibetan government in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign governments for the ...