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.

If there is only one boy found, the High Lamas will invite Living Buddhas of the three great monasteries together with secular clergy and monk officials, to confirm their findings and will then report to the Central Government through the Minister of Tibet.

The Indus begins in Tibet at the confluence of Sengge and Gar rivers and flows southwest through India and then through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

A more certain prehistoric period has been theorized by historians as that of the state of Lhomon ( literally, southern darkness ) or Monyul ( dark land, a reference to the Monpa aboriginal peoples of Bhutan ), possibly a part of Tibet that was then beyond the pale of Buddhist teachings.

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.

Common buckwheat was domesticated and first cultivated in inland southeast Asia, possibly around 6000 BC, and from there spread to Central Asia and Tibet, and then to the Middle East and Europe.

Hu has been involved in the Communist party bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as Party secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and then later First secretary of the Party Central Secretariat and Vice-President under former leader Jiang Zemin.

At Zhengzhou, he took a train to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, and then trekked to the sacred Buddhist mountain of Wutai Shan, where he met the Dalai Lama, who was launching a nascent campaign to free Tibet from Chinese Imperial rule.

Rumors of Russian expansion into the Hindu Kush and a Russian presence in Tibet prompted the Viceroy of India Lord Curzon to appoint Younghusband, by then a Major, to serve as British commissioner to Tibet from 1902-1904.

: brought up an Evangelical Christian, read his way into Tolstoyan simplicity, experienced a revelatory vision in the mountains of Tibet, toyed with telepathy in Kashmir, proposed a new faith based on virile racial theory, then transformed it into what Bertrand Russell called ' a religion of atheism.

Harrer and Aufschnaiter then travelled across Tibet to Lhasa, the capital.

* 1936-1 March 2012 Jambalnamdolchoyjijantsan ( Jampal Namdrol Chokye Gyaltsen ), 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu ( b. 1932-d. March 1, 2012 ; from 1991, recognized by the Dalai Lama ; in Tibet exile to 1959, then in India )

Between 1949 and 1950 Tibet was invaded by Forces from the Peoples Republic of China ( PRC ) forcing the then Tibetan government into exile.

As a Buddhist priest, Galdan had been to Tibet at the age of thirteen and had trained under the fourth Panchen Lama and then the Fifth Dalai Lama.

The Zunghars led by Tsewang Rabtan's brother Tsering Dondup invaded Tibet-which was then dominated by the Khoshut, another Oirad tribe-in 1717, deposed a pretender to the position of the Dalai Lama ( who had been promoted by Lha-bzang Khan, the titular King of Tibet ).

Tibet and Mongolia then recognized each other in a treaty.

His action being disapproved, Qishan had been degraded, sentenced to death, reprieved, then sent to Tibet as imperial commissioner.

During the Chinese revolution a parallel process occurred as Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party first promised independence and self-determination to all of China's many stateless nations, and then not only refused to deliver once the CCP's grip on power was solidified but actually invaded and annexed Tibet, which he regarded as a renegade province.

Problematic relations with Nepal led to Gurkha invasions of Tibet, sent by Bahadur Shah, the Regent of Nepal, in 1788 and again in 1791, when Shigatse was occupied and the great Tashilhunpo Monastery, the then seat of the Panchen Lamas, sacked and destroyed.

The authorities in British India renewed their interest in Tibet in the late 19th century, and a number of Indians entered the country, first as explorers and then as traders.

This was transliterated by other Mahayana Buddhist traditions in China and Tibet, and then spread to other regions such as Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.

The Ancient Southern Silk Road started from Myanmar, crossed Lijiang, Shangri-La County, Tibet, then journeyed through the Fertile Crescent Arabian lands particularly Iran, Iraq formerly Mesopotamia, Jordan, Israel, then eventually to the Mediterranean Sea.