Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds ... You can find the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city found 168 miles west of Lhasa. Since you are not ...

including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery and the shopping haven, Barkhor Street. Southwest of Lhasa lies Tibet's second largest city and tourist hub, Shigatse. Shigatse bears a ...

Following the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale in the Shigatse region of Tibet on the morning of January 7 (EST), over 500 aftershocks occurred, writes the Associated Press.

The earthquake that hit Tibet's holy Shigatse city around 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT) had a magnitude of 7.1 and a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), according to data from the US Geological ...

Rescue teams attend to casualties in the aftermath of an earthquake in a location given as Shigatse City, Tibet. Credit: Reuters Photo Rescue teams work amidst rubble in the aftermath of an ...