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Transcending Tragedy at Cinequest 2010

Now in its 20th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held each year in San Jose, Calif., presents a...

Singapore / Uzbekistan / China Celeste Heiter

One of the many Naxi Guesthouses along the trail

Last Days of the Tiger Leaping Gorge?

Deep in Yunnan Province, at the foot of the Himalayas, the Yangtze River (here known as the Yello...

Afghanistan / China / Bhutan Adam Bray

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering ...

China / India / Indonesia Kenneth Champeon

Film review: Seven Years in Tibet

Based on a true story, the 1997 Jean-Jacques Annaud film stars Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer, an A...

China Celeste Heiter

Zhao Hitches a Ride to Three Gorges in 'Getting Home'

On the Edge of Our Seats at Cinequest 18

Mystery and suspense take on many forms in the seven Asian entries in San Jose's 18th annual Cine...

Japan / China / Nepal Celeste Heiter

Little Buddha

Film Review: Little Buddha

In this film adaptation of a true story, a Tibetan Buddhist lama's search for the reincarnation o...

China / Bhutan Celeste Heiter

Thukpa

Thukpa is popular throughout all the Himalayan countries, and there are as many preparations as t...

China / Bhutan / Nepal Celeste Heiter

Yeti Airlines, on the airstrip in Simikot (9,400'), Nepal.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal - Day 4

1st pass, after Simikot We flew from sea level to Simikot at 9,500 feet, and started walking -- u...

Afghanistan / China / Bhutan Jeff Greenwald

Black Narcissus

Film Review: Black Narcissus

Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus tells the story of a cloister of nuns from th...

China / Bhutan / Nepal Celeste Heiter

A memorial stupa in Zhongdiang

A Wish and A Prayer

The people of Yunnan province introduced me to many different ways to make good luck wishes for m...

China MaryLou Driedger

Fruit seller on the roadside, Nepalganj, Nepal.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal - Day 1

Nepalganj When the Journey Begins The pilgrimage begins when you pack up the computer; when you g...

China / Nepal Jeff Greenwald

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Slain Indian soldier 'lives on' at China frontier post

JASWANT GARH, India, Nov 7, 2002 - Forty years after his death, an Indian army rifleman has been ...

China AFP/Zarir Hussain

Terraced fields along the Karnali River just outside of Muchu, Nepal.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal - Day 5

en route to Kirmi The Karnali is the color of elephant hide, a churning river that looks fully ca...

China / Nepal Jeff Greenwald

The Potala Palace above Lhasa, Tibet

The Fourteen Dalai Lamas of Tibet

The tradition of the Dalai Lama actually began in the 16th century with Sonam Gyatso, the Third D...

China Celeste Heiter

Evening bazaar, Nepalganj, Nepal.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal - Day 3

Hotel Batika, Nepalganj If this is to be a journey beyond preferences, I am sorry. For I would tr...

China / Nepal Jeff Greenwald

Potala Palace contains many original statues, scrolls, and other Buddhist/Tibetan artifacts. It is an important site for Tibetan pilgrims and is open to the public as a museum.

The Don Juan of Dalai Lamas

* * * * * I sought my lover at twilight Snow fell at daybreak. Residing at the Potala I am Rigdzi...

China Celeste Heiter

The southern (or "sapphire") face of Mt. Kailash.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal

16 May - 2 June 2002 * * * * * Day 1: 16 May 2002 / Nepalganj When the Journey Begins The pilgrim...

China / Nepal Jeff Greenwald

China's New Revolution

A REVOLUTION is going down in Beijing. Naturally it reaches Tiananmen Square, the city's g...

China April Thompson

A Tibetan horseman in Tsara township, 70 km from Tibet's capital Lhasa.

Tibet's Horse Racing Festival

* * * TSARA TOWNSHIP, Tibet, Aug 8, 2005 - The muffled thud of hooves on thick grass provided an ...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Kundun

Film Review: Kundun

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Kundun tells the story of Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth and present-...

China Celeste Heiter

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