Tibet

China has completed the track-laying work for the Lhasa-Shigatse extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and will begin operating it later this year. China’s online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn Jan 1 said the news was released by Economic Working Conference of Tibet Autonomous Region and reported by the country’s party newspaper People’s Daily. Work for the...Read More

Tibet museum declared to have found an inscription of Pramanavarttika (Explanation of Touch-stones) dated back to the 13th century. This inscription of scripture was identified to be produced in Beijing, then capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1370) during 1281-1286. The Buddhism classic Pramanavarttika was written by the great Indian logician Dharmakirti and is one of...Read More

Weeks after opening a strategic highway to a remote county in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, China has said it would restrict the number of tourists visiting the area to protect its fragile ecology. Officials of Medog County, the last county in Tibet to gain road access to the outside world early this...Read More

The Scientific Research Seminar on Plateau Sports held in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region recently suggests that Tibet should develop various sports tourism products for the market is getting busier these years around China. Cai Youzhi, deputy director from the Scientific Research Department of the Beijing Sports University, said that tourism industry is booming in...Read More

With the arrival of the tourist season, tourists into Tibet is gradually increasing, the Potala Palace in Lhasa as the main of course, attract most tourists. Out of the protection of heritage conservation considerations, the Potala Palace administration had to limit the number of visitors, therefore, the tickets for the Potala Palace is particularly tight....Read More