The line of Dalai Lamas began as a lineage of spiritual teachers ; the 5th Dalai Lama assumed political authority over Tibet.

Now the peoples of Mongolia and Tibet are closely related to us, and we have great affection for one another: our common existence and common honor already have a history of over a thousand years .... Mongolia and Tibet's life and death are China's life and death.

The Qing court responded by asserting Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, resulting in the 1906 Anglo-Chinese Convention signed between Britain and China.

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

There were over 6, 000 monasteries in Tibet.

The consolidation of Bhutan occurred in 1616 when Ngawanag Namgyal, a lama from western Tibet known as the Shabdrung Rinpoche, defeated three Tibetan invasions, subjugated rival religious schools, codified the Tsa Yig, an intricate and comprehensive system of law, and established himself as ruler over a system of ecclesiastical and civil administrators.

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

Modern scholars still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty really had sovereignty over Tibet at all, as some believe it was a relationship of loose suzerainty which was largely cut off when the Jiajing Emperor ( ruled in 1521 – 67 ) persecuted Buddhism in favor of Daoism at court and some scholars argue that the significant religious nature of the relationship of the Ming court with Tibetan lamas is underrepresented in modern scholarship.

There was a long string of conflicts with Tibet over territories in the Tarim Basin between 670 – 692 and in 763 the Tibetans even captured the capital of China, Chang ' an, for fifteen days during the An Shi Rebellion.

" Indeed, this was true of the dynasty's borders in multiple directions ; modern Xinjiang, Tibet, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and regions to the southeast were foreign to the Qin, and even areas over which they had military control were culturally distinct.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is the second-largest province-level division of China by area, spanning over, after Xinjiang, and mostly due to its harsh and rugged terrain, is the least densely populated provincial-level division of the PRC.

Modern scholars still debate on whether the Chinese Ming Dynasty ( 1368 to 1644 ) had sovereignty over Tibet prior to the conquest of Tibet in 1642.

In 1951, the Tibetan representatives signed a seventeen-point agreement with the Chinese Central People's Government affirming China's sovereignty over Tibet.

In northern Tibet elevations reach an average of over.

The PRC has border disputes with the Republic of India over the McMahon Line of Arunachal Pradesh, known to the Chinese as " South Tibet ".

The Tibet AR is dotted over with large and small lakes, generally salt or alkaline, and intersected by streams.

After the Manchu-founded Qing Dynasty conquered the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court decided to continue to use the Ming administrative system to rule over former Ming lands, without applying it to other domains within the Qing Dynasty, namely Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet.

The plane is hijacked and flown instead over the mountains to Tibet.

This fieldwork in Nepal ’ s Barun Valley led directly to initiating in 1984 Makalu-Barun National Park that protected over half a million acres in 1991, and across the border with China the Qomolangma national nature preserve in the Tibet Autonomous Region that protected over six million acres.

At an elevation of 5, 000m, the desolation of Aksai Chin had no human importance other than an ancient trade route that crossed over it, providing a brief pass during summer for caravans of yaks between Xinjiang and Tibet.

China was given a score of 6 overall, however Tibet was listed separately in the 7 category.

Tibet is often called " the roof of the world ," comprising table-lands averaging over 4, 950 metres above the sea with peaks at 6, 000 to 7, 500 m, including Mount Everest.

In Tibet, they have been recorded at altitudes up to 5, 000 m ( 16, 400 ft ), and as high as 6, 350 m ( 20, 600 ft ) on Mount Everest.

When compared to the other important Tantric system of Vajrayana in Tibet, the Muladhara chakra finds no parallel in the same place, unlike the other 6 chakras.

#" Seven Years in Tibet " – 6: 22

English actor Russell Tovey played the role at the London Barbican Theatre during the 2005 – 6 season of a Young Vic adaptation of Tintin in Tibet.

He also recognized Choseng Trungpa, born on February 6, 1989 in eastern Tibet, as the reincarnation of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Under the modern administrative division of the People's Republic of China, Kham comprises a total of 50 contemporary counties, which have been incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan ( 16 counties ), Yunnan ( 3 counties ), and Qinghai ( 6 counties ) as well as the eastern portion of the Tibet Autonomous Region ( 25 counties ).

Born at Roorkee in India and educated at Cheltenham College, he was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army during the Armed Mission to Tibet when, on 6 July 1904 his actions at the storming of the Gyantse Fortress, Tibet led to the award of the Victoria Cross.

The highest temperature in Tibet is 43. 6 ° C and is recorded near the border of India at an elevation of approximately 600 meters above sea level.

As song lyrics in Tibet usually contained stanzas of 4 lines of 6 syllables each, the lyrics could be easily adapted to almost any melody.

On 18 September 2011, a magnitude 6. 9M < sub > w </ sub > earthquake struck Sikkim, killing at least 116 people in the state and in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet.

Trinley Thaye Dorje () ( born 6 May 1983, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China ) is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

He died in Tibet on 6 March 1815.

As of December 2010 Free Tibet had around 6, 000 members, over 20, 000 supporters, around 40 local groups around the UK and a further 15 around the world, involved in fund raising and letter writing campaigns.

The policy covers 6 provinces ( Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan ), 5 autonomous regions ( Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang ), and 1 municipality ( Chongqing ).

When climbers attempt to climb Everest via the North ridge ( Tibet ), the first camp on the mountain itself ( traditional Camp IV, modern Camp I ) is established on the North Col. From this point at approximately 6, 100 metres above sea level, climbers ascend the North Col to reach a series of progressively higher camps along the North Face of Everest.

:* Daja Wangchuk Meston, American Tibet activist and author of a memoir, Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness ( Free Press, March 6, 2007 ).

He was born on February 6, 1989 in Pawo village, in Derge, eastern Tibet, and recognized by Tai Situ Rinpoche in 1991.

After 1, 000 years of close ties with Tibet, Bhutan faced the threat of British military power and was forced to make serious geopolitical decisions.

Drepung Monastery in Tibet housed around 10, 000 monks prior to the Chinese invasion .< ref >" Monks under siege in monasteries as protest ends in a hail of gunfire " by Jane Macartney, March 12, 2008 The Sunday Times, < sup ></ sup ></ ref > Today its relocated monastery in India houses around 8, 000.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon ( or Tsangpo Canyon ), along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world at 5, 500 m ( 18, 000 ft ), and is slightly longer than Grand Canyon making it one of the world's largest.

The firm had best-sellers such as Gamesmanship and Heinrich Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet, which sold more than 200, 000 copies.

* T. m. maximus is a large montane subspecies found from eastern Afghanistan east through the Himalayas between 3200 and 4800 metres ( 10, 560 – 16, 000 ft ) to Sikkim, Assam, southern Tibet and western Szechwan, China.

He was said to have lived 18, 000 years ago in the land of Olmo Lung Ring, part of the land of Tagzig ( see Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring ), to the west of present day Tibet ( which some scholars identify with the Persian Tajik ).

Outside of Lhasa itself, Lhasa Tibetan is spoken by approximately 200, 000 exile speakers who have moved from modern-day Tibet to India and other countries.

The Central Tibetan Administration's ( CTA ) own refugee register counts 145, 150 Tibetans outside Tibet: a little over 100, 000 in India ; in Nepal there are over 16, 000 ; over 1, 800 in Bhutan and more than 25, 000 in other parts of the world.

According to Chinese sources, the infant mortality rate in Tibet was 35. 3 per 1, 000 in the year 2000, as compared to the 430 infant deaths per 1, 000 in 1951.

The first Ilkhan Hulegu owned 25, 000 households of silk-workers in China, valleys in Tibet, and lands in Mongolia.

An online gazetteer of 5, 000 plant collecting localities in East Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling District, Bhutan and the Chumbi Valley ( Tibet ).

Their villages are situated at an elevation of from 10, 000 to 13, 000 feet, at the foot of the passes leading into Tibet, though only occupied from June to November in each year.

They carried out extensive military expeditions westward, reaching as far as Hetian in Xinjiang and the borders of Kashmir and Afghanistan, and established a vast empire that encompassed Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, northern Sichuan, eastern Shaanxi, southern Xinjiang, and most of Tibet, stretching 1, 500 kilometers from the east to the west and 1, 000 kilometers from the north to the south.

The exile Tuyühu Khan, Dayan, submitted under Tibet, which resorted to an excuse that Tuyühu objected its marriage with the Tang and sent 200, 000 troops to attack.

The Tang sent its famous general, Xue Rengui, to lead 100, 000 troops to fight Tibet in Dafeichuan ( present Gonghe County in Qinghai ).

They were annihilated by the ambush of 200, 000 troops of Dayan and Tibet, which became the biggest debacle in the Tang history, and formally brought the Tuyühu Empire to an end.

It was the last 8, 000 metre peak to be climbed, due to its location entirely within Tibet and the restrictions on visits by foreigners to the region imposed by Tibetan and Chinese authorities.