LHASA -- In Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, the ancient Tibetan script, which dates back over 1,300 years, is now seamlessly integrated into modern digital life. Today, smartphone users ...

Two sites in Lhasa are linked to the invention of the Tibetan writing system. Outside the east wall of the Jokhang, Songtsen used to meditate next to an auspicious boulder. Later he ordered the ...

THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of early ...

E. Gene Smith, a Utah native who through persistence, ardor and benevolent guile amassed the largest collection of Tibetan books outside Tibet, saving them from isolation and destruction and making ...