Tibetans
Tibetans (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: bod pa, THL: bö pa) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated to be around 7.7 million. In addition to…
Monk Chat
(Debate in Tibetan Buddhism) The practice of debate (known in Tibetan as རྩོད་པ་, pronounced tsöpa) is a central and distinctive…
Mount Everest
“Everest”, “Sagarmatha”, and “Qomolangma” redirect here. For other uses, see Everest (disambiguation), Sagarmatha (disambiguation), and Qomolangma (disambiguation). The area surrounding Mount Everest, located…
The Shoton Festival
The Sho Dun Festival (Tibetan: ༄༅། ཞོ་སྟོན།; Chinese: 雪頓節; pinyin: Xuědùn Jié), commonly known as the Shoton[1] or Yogurt Festivalor Banquetsince “Sho” means Yogurt and “Dun” means Banquet, is an annual festival held at Norbulingka or…
The Pala Manor
Located in Jiangzi County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, is the estate of the former Tibetan aristocratic Pala family.…
The Palcho Monastery
The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. The monastery precinct…