German makes a distinction between " Zentralasien ", meaning Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Manchu lands, and " Mittelasien ," meaning the republics of Central Asia.

The Tibetan inhabitants of Amdo are referred to as Amdowa (; amdo pa ) as a regional distinction from the Tibetans of Kham ( Khampa ) and U-Tsang ( Central Tibet ), however, they are all considered ethnically Tibetan.

There was the revolution in Tibet which we pretended did not exist.

All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue.

Borax was known from the deserts of western Tibet, where it received the name of tincal, derived from the Sanskrit.

Tsogt Taij was defeated and killed by Güshi Khan of the Khoshud in 1637, who would in turn become the overlord of Tibet, and act as a " Protector of the Yellow Church.

In 1951, he and the Tibetan government formally accepted the Seventeen Point Agreement by which Tibet was formally incorporated into the People's Republic of China.

His original goal was full independence for Tibet, but by the late 1980s, he was seeking high-level autonomy instead.

The search for the Dalai Lama has usually been limited historically to Tibet, although the third tulku was born in Mongolia.

However, if there are several possibilities of the reincarnation, in the past regents and eminent officials and monks at the Jokhang in Lhasa, and the Minister to Tibet would decide on the individual by putting the boys ' names inside an urn and drawing one lot in public if it was too difficult to judge the reincarnation initially.

* During and after the Communist overthrow of the monarchy in China, as well as during the later Cultural Revolution, there was widespread destruction of religious and secular imagery in China, including in Tibet.

They were enunciated in the preamble to the " Agreement ( with exchange of notes ) on trade and intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India ", which was signed at Peking on 29 April 1954.

The Tibet Improvement Party was founded by Pandatsang Rapga, a pro-ROC and pro-KMT Khampa revolutionary, who worked against the 13th Dalai Lama's Tibetan Government in Lhasa.

Ma Bufang was fully supported by the Kuomintang President of China Chiang Kaishek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans.

In 1855 he attempted to impose his influence in Tibet but was stopped in the Nepalese-Tibetan War ( 1855 – 1856 ).

Tibet was ready to pay tributes to the tune of Rs.

Polyandry in Tibet was a common practice and continues to a lesser extent today.

In Tibet the practice was particularly popular among the priestly Sakya class but also among poor small farmers who can ill afford to divide their small holdings.

Polyandry in Tibet as well was common traditionally, as was polygyny, and having several wives or husbands was never regarded as having sex with inappropriate partners.

This institution was established to supervise the administration of Tibet and the Mongol lands.

The department's primary purpose was to manage the internal affairs of the imperial family and the activities of the inner palace ( in which tasks it largely replaced eunuchs ), but it also played an important role in Qing relations with Tibet and Mongolia, engaged in trading activities ( jade, ginseng, salt, furs, etc.

From its unification from 604-650 CE until 1724 and from 1912 to 1951, Tibet was a sovereign nation.

In 1949, when the Dalai Lama was 15 years old and thus not yet the head of state, the Chinese government ordered a military march into Tibet in order to force the Tibetan government to negotiate its sovereignty.

Tibet was then forced to " peacefully negotiate " its sovereignty, and ceded rule over Tibet to China in the Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951.

This thangka was made in Eastern Tibet and is currently housed in the Birmingham Museum of Art.

This thangka was made in Eastern Tibet and is currently housed in the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Subsequent missions to Bhutan were made by the British in 1776, 1777, and 1783, and commerce was opened between British India and Bhutan and, for a short time, Tibet.

Puffballs were traditionally used in Tibet for making ink by burning them, grinding the ash, then putting them in water and adding glue liquid and " a nye shing ma decoction ", which, when pressed for a long time, made a very black dark substance which was used as ink.

The People's Republic of China, founded in 1949, abolished Xikang province of the Republic of China and merged western part of that province into Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 while the rest of Xikang was made Sichuan province in 1955.

At this point the British had still made no attempts to establish outposts or control over the Aksai Chin, nor was the issue ever discussed with the governments of China or Tibet, and the boundary remained undemarcated at India's independence.

Some months later, Oz returns to Sunnydale, having made progress with his lycanthropy through techniques learned in Tibet.

Accusations of continuing Han chauvinism continue to be made by some members of ethnic minority groups, including as justification for separatist movements in ( e. g. ) Tibet and Xinjiang.

The storyline opens in Tibet in the year 1943, wherein one of its protagonists, a Tibetan monk, is informed that he has fulfilled the prophecies made of him-he has fought an army of enemies while a flock of cranes circled above ; fought for love at the palace of Jade ; saved brothers whom he did not know from a family he never had ; and forsaken his name.

The hallmark of National Geographic, reinventing it from a text-oriented entity closer to a scientific journal, to a magazine famous for exclusive pictorial footage, was its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures made in Tibet in 1900 – 1901 by two explorers from the Russian Empire, Gombojab Tsybikov and Ovshe Norzunov.

As a Buddhist, he made a pilgrimage to Tibet but was unable to return to Kalmykia because of the Dzungars ' obstruction.

During his short tenure as governor, Liu led his soldiers in the crackdown of bandits and restored law and order, oversaw economic development, and more importantly, made plans for the communist invasion of Tibet.

Paul Williams has commented that this view of Buddhism is similar to ideas found in the shentong teachings of the Jonang school of Tibet, made famous by Dolpopa.

It made reference to a small scale map with very little detail, one that primarily showed lines separating China from " Inner Tibet " and " Inner Tibet " from " Outer Tibet.

These included the Chinese monk I Ching, who made several lengthy visits to Sumatra on his way to study at Nalanda University in India in 671 and 695, and the 11th century Bengali Buddhist scholar Atisha, who played a major role in the development of Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet.

In 1265 Chögyal Phagpa returned to Tibet and for the first time made an attempt to impose Sakya hegemony with the appointment of Shakya Bzang-po ( a long time servant and ally of the Sakyas ) as the Dpon-chen (' great administrator ') over Tibet in 1267.

Güshi Khan of the Khoshut in 1641 overthrew the prince of Tsang and made the Fifth Dalai Lama the highest spiritual and political authority in Tibet.

A Khalkha prince was made amban, or official representative in Tibet of the Qing.

" In an inscription he says he had them made for the religious benefit of the Tsanpo ( the dynastical name of his father and ancestors ), and of all the people of Ngaris ( Western Tibet ).

Some luxury rug makers have found success in Tibet in the last decade, but a gap still exists between Tibet-made product and the " Tibetan style " carpets made by businesses in South Asia.

Though mainly known as an actor, Yuen co-directed Peacock King with Lam Ngai Kai in 1989 and made his full directorial debut with A Kid from Tibet in 1992.

A video was also made for " Seven Years in Tibet ", composed largely of concert footage.