The Grand Sutra Hall at Labrang Monastery, in China’s Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. With half-frozen fingers, I googled “Do vultures attack humans?” on my phone. I was alone on a grassy ...

Each year, ever since the early 1400s, Tibetan Buddhists gather to unveil a large thangka — a painting made on fabric — of Buddha. The great prayer ritual, which was banned during the cultural ...

Seven Buddha halls have been restored in Labrang Monastery, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the northwestern province of Gansu. Founded in 1709, by 2012, when the restoration project began, ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — An expected visit by a Chinese-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader to a prominent monastery has raised new fears of repression among monks loyal to another person named by the Dalai ...

Protest interupts press tour of Buddhist monastery in Tibetan area. LABRANG MONASTERY, Gansu, China, April 9, 2008 — -- A Buddhist monk was handing over a white shawl to me, a Tibetan ritual used ...

XIAHE, China — Buddhist monks in flowing burgundy robes hurried along the dirt paths of the Labrang Monastery, trying their best to ignore the scrum of Chinese tourists following their every move, ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — A Tibetan farmer has died after setting himself on fire in remote northwest China, in the second self-immolation death near the Labrang Monastery in two days and the latest of dozens ...

Another Tibetan man has died in the third self-immolation in four days, Voice of America reports. Fifty-seven year-old Dorjee Rinchen set himself on fire near the Labrang Monastery in Gansu. A day ...