Tibetan activists based abroad had said the 1,300-year-old temple, a UNESCO world heritage site that houses cultural treasures sacred to Tibetans, was badly damaged in the fire. China said on Thursday ...

BEIJING (AP) – Two men engulfed themselves in a burst of flames outside a Buddhist temple popular with tourists and pilgrims in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to ...

Damage caused by the fire at Jokhang temple in Lhasa, one of the most holiest and ancient sites in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), could be more widespread than official reports acknowledge, activists ...

Monks play horns during the annual religious ritual of unfolding a huge Buddha portrait in the Gandan Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, July 22, 2013. Founded in ...

A fire broke out on Saturday evening — just two days into the lunar new year — at the historic Jokhang Monastery in downtown Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, local media reported. The ...

Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po performs head-touching rituals for monks at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, June 28, 2024. Panchen Rinpoche on ...

LHASA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The 11th Panchen Lama visited Jokhang Temple, the most renowned monastery in Lhasa, capital city of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Wednesday. The ...

'Lhasa is more than the Unesco World Heritage Sites it boasts of. It is more than a gateway to the mighty Himalayas.' 'It is about the warmth of its people: Unsaid, unspoken, but felt everywhere,' ...