The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900, seeking a purer version of Buddhism than the one in his homeland. What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/rock12890.2 Looking at these beautiful pictures and feeling the pulse of the life of the Tibetan Buddhist monastery, I remember ...

The monk's self-immolation could spark fresh tensions in heavily ethnic Tibetan parts of Sichuan, which neighbours the official Tibet region, following protests in March when a Tibetan monk there ...