Ethnic Tibet is not confined culturally to modern political Tibet.

In modern Tibet, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was an intellectual and religious scholar as well as a famous Tertön (treasure revealer).

Nor was modern Tibet a reassuring sight: rural poverty and shoddy, improvised Chinese-style cities.

First and foremost, the martial arts that exist in what is modern Tibet in most respects do not resemble the school as preserved in China.

THE story of modern Tibet is a heartbreaking one.

"The Dragon in the Land of Snows" is likely to be the definitive history of modern Tibet for a generation or more.

Wildlife and plants in traditional and modern Tibet: Conceptions, Exploitation and Conservation.

"This Karmapa dispute is sort of a medieval tragicomedy," said Tsering Shakya, a London-based scholar who has written a history of modern Tibet.

Contemporary Tibetan art refers to the art of modern Tibet, or Tibet after 1950.

There is now a modest body of scholarly books and articles about the history, religion, art and literature of traditional and modern Tibet.