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Salon.com February 4, 2002 Terence Clarke |
Tibet: Lost in the Himalayas An American photographer who brought three children out of Tibet talks about how the country's legendary spiritual tradition is vanishing... |
Salon.com June 21, 2000 Gavin McNett |
"Virtual Tibet" and "The Search for the Panchen Lama" Even the experts fail to grasp the banality of Tibet. |
Military History Joe Bageant |
War at the Top of the World For more than a decade, CIA training and airdrops helped hard-fighting Tibetan forces resist the Communist Chinese in a little-known 'war at the roof of the world.' |
InternetNews March 17, 2008 |
Chinese Seethe on Web Over Rare Riots in Tibet Blogs reveal true opinions of population in China. |
Geotimes August 2007 Fred Schwab |
The "Roof of the World" is Leaking If China's recent history of environmental stewardship is any guide, the future of Tibet is as hazy as Beijing's sky. China's push to develop Tibet may irreparably damage it. |
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Janelle Brown |
My past life as a dog For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes. |
Wired February 2006 John Geirland |
Buddha on the Brain A neuroscientist published studies on the brain activity of Tibetan Buddhist monks during meditation, shedding light on the ability to change brain function through training. |
AskMen.com December 24, 2002 Harry Marks |
Tibet: A Wonder In The Mountains With a challenging landscape and tumultuous political situation, the culture and sights Tibet has to offer are often overlooked, despite being of great interest to inquisitive travelers. |
Smithsonian May 2004 Chip Brown |
Presence of Mind - The (Scientific) Pursuit of Happiness What does the Dalai Lama have to teach psychologists about joy and contentment?. |
InternetNews March 25, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
YouTube Outage in China Enters Third Day Google's video site remains blocked in China after a video depicting police beating protesters in Tibet surfaced. Chinese officials call the video "a lie." |
Lucire May 29, 2011 Elyse Glickman |
Looking Beyond the Mountains Model, actress, and now author, Yangzom Brauen has written a memoir, Across Many Mountains, of her family's journey from post-occupation Tibet to their new life in the west. |
Salon.com February 26, 2001 Stephen Prothero |
Boomer Buddhism American converts are taking a 2,500-year-old faith and making it over in their own image -- self-absorbed... |
Outside June 2006 Stephanie Pearson |
Cosmic Whiplash Strap in for a road trip through the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan with Robert Thurman (Uma's dad and one of the planet's most magnetic Buddha boosters) and get set for stunning scenery, harrowing S-curves, and face time with the wild side of your soul |
Salon.com August 24, 2000 Jeff Stark |
"Free Tibet" Half flimsy documentary, half unexceptional concert movie -- but Beck and Bjork are priceless. |
Outside June 2008 Marc Peruzzi |
Let the Games Begin Without Us Want to let China know how you feel about its behavior? Change the channel and boycott the Olympics. |
Psychology Today Sep/Oct 2006 Katherine Ellison |
Mastering Your Own Mind Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation -- even love -- are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. |
InternetNews April 8, 2010 |
Massive Cyber Spy Ring Seen Operating in China New report details the activities of the "Shadow network," a sophisticated group of cyber criminals traced back to China, prompting denial from a state official. |
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Brave New Brain We'll need to remold our minds. Fortunately, it's possible. Two books point to the benefits of trying to reorder our thinking. |
Salon.com November 14, 2000 John Thorne |
Trekking for Tibetan potatoes When it comes to recipes, I'm a hunter, not a gatherer... |
Wired July 2006 David Wolman |
Train to the Roof of the World China's new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. All aboard the Tibet express. |
Outside April 2006 Ben Bleiman |
Thunder in the Temple In Tibetan refugee communities across northern India, the sounds of traditional Himalayan life are mixing with the wailing guitars of the JJI Exile Brothers whose incendiary rock provides the soundtrack for a new, less equanimous dissident movement among Tibetan young people. |
Outside April 2010 Dean King |
In the Land of the Human-Sucking Bogs Retracing Mao Zedong's epic 1934 Long March through China's Great Snowy Mountains, the author gains a new respect for the few who survived -- and discovers a rugged wilderness ripe for modern adventure. |
Real Travel Adventures December 2008 Nancy S. Tardy |
Bollywood Meets the Wild West Topped off with a Dollop of Spiritualism India! Many love it; some say they hate it; but no one is indifferent to this vast subcontinent teeming with almost one billion people. |
CIO September 1, 2002 Xu & Varon |
The China Syndrome Companies hoping to do business in China will have to play by China's rules. The world's largest market hasn't changed, even with the country's joining the World Trade Organization last year. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Does China Pose an Economic Threat to the United States? It would appear so, given the rhetoric in recent months by American politicians and some businesspeople, who have complained about the loss of U.S. jobs to China and unfair Chinese trade practices. But faculty members at business schools say the complaints are misplaced and driven by politics. |