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State of Statelessness review – Dalai Lama presides over intimate dramas about Tibetans’ life of exile
Tibetan directors, who all live outside Tibet, deliver a quartet of films that explore the pain of separation …
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This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future
Til, the remotest of three villages in the Limi valley on the Tibetan border, was already wrestling with a dwi…
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Mount Everest rescue: all hikers now safe after days stranded in powerful blizzard
Hundreds of hikers encountered deep snow in the isolated Karma valley after an unusually powerful blizzardResc…
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Mount Everest hikers describe ‘extreme’ conditions as huge rescue effort continues
At least 200 people still stranded after unseasonally heavy snowfall during china’s Golden Week holidayTrekker…
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Mount Everest rescue under way after snowstorm traps nearly 1,000 people
Hundreds of trekkers stranded by blizzard on eastern face of mountain in Tibet already guided to safety by res…
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Arc’teryx fireworks display in Tibet prompts environmental outcry
Outdoor brand says the Rising Dragon promotional event was out of line with its values after public criticismT…
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China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam
1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Ban…
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Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future
Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing’s control ove…
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Buddhist rebirth v Chinese control: the battle to choose the Dalai Lama’s successor
The spiritual leader has said his inner circle of monks will find an heir, but China believes the choice is in…
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Dalai Lama outlines process for choosing his successor after he dies – video
The Dalai Lama has said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending y…
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Dalai Lama defies China to say successor will be chosen by Tibetan tradition
Spiritual leader challenges Beijing in video statement released in run-up to 90th birthday celebrationsThe Dal…
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Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side – in pictures
The exiled spiritual leader, who turns 90 this week, has met everyone from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga while c…
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Hong Kong police tell people not to download ‘secessionist’ mobile game
Players face possible arrest for downloading Taiwan-developed Reversed Front: Bonfire, which lets them ‘overth…
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Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’
New book by spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will raise the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control …
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Gyalo Thondup obituary
Brother of the Dalai Lama and political envoy who led talks on the exiled leader’s return to Tibet with the Ch…