Stepping off the train in Jackson Heights, Queens, on a recent Sunday, I discovered two groups doing sonic battle in a courtyard ringed with shops: a Tibetan religious service led by crimson-robed ...

BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 1,500 new words and expressions have been added to the Tibetan vocabulary. A national committee on standardization of the Tibetan language released the words and ...

A new simplified presentation of a jawbreaking language was available last week at the Oxford University Press, Bombay branch. Tibetan Word Book is also one of the weightiest contributions to the ...

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BARMA, China (Reuters) - In March, a young Tibetan woman named Kalkyi began making frequent visits to a monastery in Barma, a township in China's Sichuan Province. The slim, rosy-cheeked mother of ...