Please join us for the opening reception of Daniel Miller’s exhibition and talk on 'Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya' in Norlin Library’s Underground West ...

Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years. Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope ...

China’s sedentarisation of Tibetan nomads in Amdo, Qinghai, and Sichuan—framed as modernization and ecological protection—has instead become a story of displacement, cultural erosion, and contested ...

For decades he and his wife grazed yaks and sheep, living a life little changed in centuries, until they acquiesced three years ago to government calls to give up their yak-hair tents for permanent ...

LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours ...

From its opening moments, when a camera follows a Tibetan nomad riding a horse across a rocky, windswept hilltop, "The Saltmen of Tibet" reveals a landscape and a people that are rarely seen by ...

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to ...

Region pushes ahead with effort to protect nature while helping people Ecological protection efforts in the Tibet autonomous region have presented nomadic herdsmen with a perplexing challenge: what to ...

Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are ...

MADUO Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world. But in ...

(MENAFN- AFP) By mid-morning, Lobsang's leather cowboy hat is askew, his black robes dishevelled, and his breath stinks of booze. Once a nomad herder roaming the high Tibetan plateau, instead he ...