In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi (1866-1945) took to enter Tibet, tucked deep in the mountains and closed to foreigners, at a time when no decent map was available. Now ...

Its epicenter, located in Tingri county high on the Tibetan plateau, was close to the border with Nepal, around 50 miles ...