In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is situated ...

Tibetans often use the term Tibet to refer to a large Tibetan ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and historical area that includes what is now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas ...

Topographic map of the Tibetan Plateau. Major rifts in south-central Tibet are labeled. The arrow indicates the Indian plate motion. The circles are intermediate-depth earthquakes (>=70 km, unusually ...

A General Map Comprizing China, Chinese-Tartary & Tibet drawn from the Paricular Maps of the Jesuits together with the countries between Kashgar and the Caspian Sea laid down according to the Oriental ...

There is considerable controversy over the nature of geophysically recognized low-velocity–high-conductivity zones (LV–HCZs) within the Tibetan crust, and their role in models for the development of ...