The quake’s epicenter was located near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s holiest cities and the traditional home of the Panchen Lama, the second most powerful figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai ...
When the grandnieces, then ages 4 and 5, went home on the weekend, he said in an interview, they appeared withdrawn and spoke awkwardly in Tibetan with their parents, much changed from when he saw ...
Others were born in India but had a strong sense of Tibetan identity while straddling the two cultures of their ancestral and adopted homes. The question of how identity forms completely intrigued me.
Before the day breaks on a winter morning at the Pong Lake wetland in northern India, muffled honks of geese are heard in the distance.