EL PAÍS travels to the autonomous region of China, where governments and NGOs denounce the violation of rights and Beijing ...

Luckily, Potala Palace is a common stop on Tibet tour group itineraries, so chances are you won't have to do much legwork. You must show up an hour before the time slot arranged by your tour guide ...

The Potala Palace is the biggest extant lamasery in China. Inside the Potala the hails housing chortens are holy places and therefore their roofs are gilded. Kept there are chortens of the fifth ...

Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet’s grotesque gods and ...

The spiritual leader, who escaped from Lhasa on March 17, 1959, has written a new book in which is he is unapologetically candid about the Chinese leadership.

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including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery and the shopping haven, Barkhor Street. Southwest of Lhasa lies Tibet's second largest city and tourist hub, Shigatse. Shigatse bears a ...

Exiled from Tibet at the age of three ... Tibetans on March 10, 1959, resisted the People’s Republic of China army at Potala Palace in capital city Lhasa as a last-ditch effort to preserve ...

According to the palace's renovation department, the first large-scale repairs of the Potala Palace were made from 1989 to 1994, and they primarily addressed the structural risks of the palace.

After five years of work, Chen Zhen of CCTV has made the first feature length documentary about the Potala Palace, a film that ... to get to know more about Tibet and to reflect upon the important ...