In recent centuries, pretty much the entire world has transitioned over to the modern numeral system (also known as Arabic or ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

We say the tens first, followed by the ones. Put the arrow cards together to get the number 31 in numerals. This pattern continues for the numbers to 99. Try counting aloud from 41 to 50 using the ...

Sogyal Lakar, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher accused of widespread physical and sexual abuse, has died aged 72. Lakar, better known as Sogyal Rinpoche, sold millions of books and was widely seen as ...

If you cannot defeat a view, then you are compelled to accept it. The central purposes of Tibetan monastic debate are to defeat misconceptions, to establish a defensible view, and to clear away ...

But to make it even more confusing, instead of using a numerical digit, the NFL uses Roman numerals to number the Super Bowl, ...

Now they are created throughout the world, including New York City. A special sand mandala painting is a gift to New York City from the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery as a tolken ...

As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

More than a decade has passed since I was last there, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and a previous civil uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Martial law was in effect then ...

Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education. Despite taking part in a momentous rite of passage, tears streaked the faces of the 110 students who graduated from ...

This is important not only for elucidating and predicting related hydroclimatic changes in the Tibetan Plateau region itself, but also because these interactions have far-reaching impacts on the ...

We say the tens first, followed by the ones. Put the arrow cards together to get the number 31 in numerals. This pattern continues for the numbers to 99. Try counting aloud from 41 to 50 using the ...