At his Culturally Curious blog, Matt Adler talks to Columbia University’s Robert Barnett about the complexities of Tibetan language and its situation in China. Both dialects and policies, Barnett ...

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy criticized Douyin, a Chinese social media platform, for banning Tibetan language content. This has affected Tibetan users' ability to create content ...

Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in ...

Language has a strange place in the intangible cultural heritage safeguarding efforts of Chinese governments and UNESCO. Languages themselves are not recognized on UNESCO’s lists nor are there ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

At just 26 years old, Tibetan-language teacher Nie Chang has become one of the most recognizable online voices, introducing learners worldwide to the language. With his fluent greetings in the Lhasa ...

When asked about media reports that the Tibetan language has been removed from the college entrance examination, or gaokao, in China's Xizang Autonomous Region and is no longer treated as a main ...

Study Tibetan with Sarah Harding, Jules Levinson, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, other skilled instructors, and native Tibetan speakers in an intensive two-week course this summer. When: August 12-23, ...

XINING -- An upgraded search engine app and input method software designed for Tibetan-speaking users have been officially launched, according to local authorities in Northwest China's Qinghai ...

The Potala Palace is mirrored in the still waters of an artificial lake on the southeast corner of Potala Palace Square, Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, Oct. 21, 2025. [Photo by Li ...