Some in the West believed the Dalai Lama to be worshipped by the Tibetans as the godhead.

* 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300, 000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

Buddhist monks, such as Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans in exile, sometimes get angry.

In 1979, he married a Han Chinese woman and in 1983 they had a daughter, which is not unusual as several Gelug high lamas ( Gelek Rinpoche in the US and Dagyab Rinpoche in Germany, among others ) have chosen a layman's lifestyle, both inside China and in exile ; also, the 6th Dalai Lama, also a Gelugpa, renounced his monk vows and led not only a layman's but a playboy's lifestyle, but still is highly revered by Tibetans.

Monastic figures had historically held important roles in the social and political makeup of Tibet, and though these roles have diminished since 1959, many Tibetans continue to regard the Panchen Lama as a significant political, as well as spiritual figure due to the role he traditionally plays in selecting the next Dalai Lama.

Organ co-authored the Greens ' policy on Tibet, which supports the right of Tibetans to self-determination and the Dalai Lama's Middle Way approach.

The Tibetans call the One Mind's concretized visualization the Khorva ( Hkhorva ), equivalent to the Sanskrit Sangsara ; that of an incarnate deity, like the Dalai or Tashi Lama, they call a Tul-ku ( Sprul-sku ), and that of a magician a Tul-pa ( Sprul-pa ), meaning a magically produced illusion or creation.

The movement is not supported by the 14th Dalai Lama, who although having advocated it from 1961 to the late 1970s, proposed a sort of high-level autonomy in a speech in Strasbourg in 1988, and has since then restricted his position to either autonomy for the Tibetan people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region within China, or for the autonomy to extend also to areas of neighboring Chinese provinces inhabited by Tibetans.

The government of the PRC also rejects claims that the lives of Tibetans have deteriorated, pointing to rights enjoyed by the Tibetan language in education and in courts and says that the lives of Tibetans have been improved immensely compared to the Dalai Lama's rule before 1950.

By August, the Tibetans lost so much land to Liu Wenhui and Ma Bufang's forces that the Dalai Lama telegraphed the British government of India for assistance.

A trade agreement was then forced on the Tibetans in the absence of the 13th Dalai Lama, who had fled to Mongolia.

During their face-to-face meeting on the final day of the Dalai Lama's visit, Mao makes clear his view that " religion is poison " and that the Tibetans are " poisoned and inferior " because of it.

The 14th Dalai Lama started to encourage the devotion to Padmasambhava, for the supposed purpose of unifying the Tibetans, and " to protect Tibetans from danger ".

Paul Williams states that " The Dalai Lama is trying to modernize the Tibetans ' political vision and trying to undermine the factionalism.

He however denies working for the Chinese, but does confirm that he has Chinese friends and he praises the Chinese " for what they are doing in Tibet ," claiming that if Tibetans who followed Dorje Shugden had to live under the Dalai Lama in Tibet, they " would have possibly been crucified.

It is also said that some of the Panchen Lamas ( e. g. the 9th and 10th ) practised Shugden, as does the current Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama, Gyenkyen Norbu ( the current Panchen Lama as recognized by the Dalai Lama and most Tibetans, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, has been a prisoner of the People's Republic of China for fifteen years ; he is the world's youngest political prisoner ).

Ursula Bernis commented that second-guessing any pronouncement made by the Dalai Lama is " sacrilege among religious Tibetans.

In the winter of 1640, Gushri defeated all the Dalai Lama's enemies and conquered Kham with other Oirat-Mongol forces from the Torghud and the Dorbeds tribes assisted by Tibetans, overcoming resistance from Khalkha and Chahar Mongol tribes, allies of the king of Tsang and other anti-Gelug forces.

By August, the Tibetans lost so much land to Liu Wenhui and Ma Bufang's forces that the Dalai Lama telegraphed the British government of India for assistance.

Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso still held this position ( though most Tibetans did not consider him to be a legitimate Dalai Lama ) when a monk at Litang monastery, spontaneously channeling the Nechung Oracle, identified Kelzang Gyatso as the reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso.

In 1974, guerrilla operations ceased after the CIA, given the realignment of Sino-American relations initiated by President Richard Nixon, terminated its program of assistance to the Tibetan resistance movement and the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the previously ruling Gelugpa, taped a message telling the Tibetans to lay down their weapons and surrender peacefully.

In 1989, the 10th Panchen Lama died suddenly in Shigatse, Tibet, at the age of 51, shortly after giving a speech critical of the Chinese neglect for the religion and culture of the Tibetans.

In 1985, the Chinese government tried to have an expert study the Deng, but 10th Panchen Lama said " All the people in Tibet should be Tibetans.

Tezu also has a sizable population of Tibetan community of about 2000 mostly residing in a settlement called by local name as Lama Camp, Tibetans settled here since 1960s after fleeing Chinese persecution in their homeland Tibet, till date they have maintained their own custom and tradition, they have built monasteries, health center, nursing home, schools etc. with fund coming from Govt and other funds. Lama Camp is located in Tindolong about from Tezu Bazaar and has 5 camps each camp represent different regions of Tibet mainly Kham kongpo and Pemako.

:" Of all the Gyalwa Rinpoche Lamas, we Tibetans probably respect the seventh, Kalzang Gyatso, most of all because of his saintliness, because he devoted his whole life to the Three Precious Ones, seeking refuge not for himself but for all his people.

For about the decade 1970 onwards these two and Akong Rinpoche together were the main resident Tibetans at the centre.

Rinpoche was born in 1947 into the Lakar family of what the Tibetans called the Trehor region of Kham, then administered as part of Ganzi County, Xikang, China.

However, Tibetans still differentiate between Bon and Buddhism, referring to members of the Nyingma, Shakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools as nangpa, meaning " insiders ," but to practitioners of Bon as " Bonpo ," or even chipa (" outsiders ").

The Nepali Princess Bhrikuti Devi, known to Tibetans as Bal-mo-bza ' Khri-btsun, Bhelsa Tritsun (' Nepali consort ') or, simply, Khri bTsun (" Royal Lady "), is traditionally considered to have been the first wife of the earliest emperor of Tibet, Songtsän Gampo ( 605?

The kind of brick which was most commonly used as currency in the late 19th and early 20th century was that of the third quality which the Tibetans called " brgyad pa " (" eighth "), because at one time it was worth eight Tibetan tangkas ( standard silver coin of Tibet which weighs about 5. 4 grams ) in Lhasa.

* Bertsch, Wolfgang ( 2006 ) The Use of Tea Bricks as Currency among the Tibetans (" Der Gebrauch von Teeziegeln als Zahlungsmittel bei den Tibetern "), Der Primitivgerldsammler.

They used " Dschiahour " to represent the Monguor, based on Tibetan reference, in which " Dschia " was likely abbreviated from the first part of " Chaghan " ( or " White ") from the self-reference of the Monguor as " Chaghan Monguor " ( or " White Mongols "), and " Hour " was a variant record to the Tibetan reference of the Monguor as " Huo ’ er " used by the Tibetans today.

Butter tea, also known as po cha (, " Tibetan tea "), cha süma (, " churned tea "), Mandarin Chinese: sūyóu chá ( 酥油茶 ) or goor goor in local Ladakhi terms, is a drink of the Tibetans and Chinese minorities in southwestern China.

To achieve this he believed that China must develop a " China-nationalism ," Zhonghua Minzu, as opposed to an " ethnic-nationalism ," so as to unite all of the different ethnicities of China, mainly composed by the five major groups of Han, Mongols, Tibetans, Manchus, and the Muslims ( such as the Uyghurs ), which together are symbolized by the Five Color Flag of the First Republic ( 1911 – 1928 ).

Many Nyingmapa and Bonpos were executed and Tibetans visiting Zunghar officials were forced to stick their tongues out so the Zunghars could tell if the person recited constant mantras ( which was said to make the tongue black or brown ).

The Tibetans did not have a formally arranged Mahayana canon and so devised their own scheme which divided texts into two broad categories:

The first masters of the tradition disguised themselves with pseudonyms, so the Indian oral traditions recorded by the Tibetans contain a mass of contradictions.

Based on the census numbers, the PRC also rejects claims that the Tibetans are being swamped by Han Chinese ; instead the PRC says that the border for Greater Tibet drawn by the government of Tibet in Exile is so large that it incorporates regions such as Xining that are not traditionally Tibetan in the first place, hence exaggerating the number of non-Tibetans.

The first Kalachakra masters of the tradition disguised themselves with pseudonyms, so the Indian oral traditions recorded by the Tibetans contain a mass of contradictions with regard to chronology.

The Tamang people originally practiced Bonism, or ancestor worship and living in proximity to the Tibetans, became Buddhists when Buddhism spread in Tibet and were one of the earliest communities to do so.

According to scholar John Newman, " the Tibetans give Nāro's name as Nā ro pa, Nā ro paṇ chen, Nā ro ta pa, and so forth.

Many Nyingmapa and Bonpos were executed and Tibetans visiting Dzungar officials were forced to stick their tongues out so the Dzungars could tell if the person recited constant mantras ( which was said to make the tongue black or brown ).

Among lay Tibetans she is seen as a Buddha who takes the form of an ordinary woman so as to be accessible to the average person, " who, for the time being, do not see her Vajravarahi form as a fully perfected deity.