Kumbum Monastery, also known as Ta'er Monastery, is located at the Lusar Town of Huangzhong County, 25 kilometers southwest of Xining, Qinghai Province. Built as early as in 1379, ...

The beauty of Ta'er Monastery, 1997. Xining stretches along the middle reaches of the Huangshui River, a tributary of the Yellow River. That relatively narrow, though fertile valley provides a ...

Ta'er Monastery . Located 26 kilometers south of the city, ... Qinghai Lake, 130 kilometers from Xining, is the largest salty water lake in China, covering an area of 4583 square kilometers.

After spending 15 years at Qinghai’s historic Kumbum monastery, ... They also show Xining’s Huangzhong township, where the monastery is located, shrouded in a thick layer of smog.

Photos and videos surfacing on Chinese social media show a heavy security presence at the annual Monlam Prayer Festival at Kumbum monastery, in a region with a large Tibetan population in China's ...

A Tibetan monk set himself on fire in Qinghai province on Monday, according to Radio Free Asia: Tsering Gyal, 20, set himself ablaze at 6:30 p.m. in Pema (in Chinese, Banma) county in Qinghai ...

In most things to do with China, the “law of big numbers” applies. A population of 1.4 billion mandates that.

Xining is a famous city situated in the western part of China. It is the capital of Qinghai Province. It is located in the corner of Tibet and Qinghai Plateaus. The elevation is about 2200 metres ...

It always amazed me how quickly I could be transported by rail or road from this city of around 2,500,00, the largest urban area within both Qinghai and Tibet, to such a lightly populated plateau.