Deki to represent Tibet in Miss Tourism World

Tenzin Deki, Miss Tibet Pageant-2002 runner-up, will represent Tibet in the Miss Tourism World-2003 to be held in Valencia, Venezuela in Latin America this month. She is one of the 59 contestants who will participate in the pageant

Foreign tourists to Tibet dwindle; domestic travellers up

Despite a sharp fall in the number of foreign tourists to Tibet, dubbed “the roof of the world,” the remote Himalayan region hosted 915,945 visitors in the first 11 months of this year, up 8.3 per cent over the same period last year.

Not just for argument’s sake

While his daughter, Uma, was busy battling Lucy Liu with a samurai sword in “Kill Bill” on multiplex screens across the city, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman engaged in another kind of battle on a recent Saturday night in the Great Hall of Cooper Union.

The Himalayas Updated – notes on the way

There is a saying in the Himalayas, that “if man is to have a future at all, he must understand himself and his own past.” Maybe that is why I keep returning to the Himalayas: facing the highest