Where: Sera Monastery 30 miles outside of Lhasa. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 feet, the monastery is one of the highest in the Himalayas and is reached by way of a dirt road with many hairpin ...

You can find the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city found 168 miles west of Lhasa.

Chinese soldiers on patrol in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Anastasia Corell) From nearly any point in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, you can see at ...

While Tibet as a whole is underdeveloped compared to other parts of China, Lhasa is probably the closest you'll come to a big, bustling city (the population is about 200,000 people).

The official Tibet Daily said part of the monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a history of more than 1,000 years, caught fire in the early evening. The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, southwest ...

2007-02-11 04:00:00 PDT Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet-- In Shangri-La there are no flush toilets. In fact, the less said about the facilities the better. Destinations all over Central Asia claim to be ...

It’s dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims. They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest place. Some prostrate ...

Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the ancient compound A fire has hit the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa.