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Tibetan history can be traced thousands of years back. However, the written history only dates back to the 7th century when Songtsan Gampo, the 33rd Tibetan king, sent his minister Sambhota to India to study Sanskrit who on his return invented the present Tibetan script based on Sanskrit... |
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There are countless custom in Tibet,sach as presenting Hada,proposing a Toast and Tea, greetings,Tibetan Buddhism,Pilgrimage and so on... |
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Tibet is the plateau region with the largest space and the highest sea level in the world, which is dubbed "the World Ridge" and "the Third Pole on the Globe". Geographically, Tibet can be divided into three major parts, the east, north and south... |
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Tibet Buddhism, also called Lamaism, formed in the 10th century. It is based on Madhyamika and Yogacara and belongs to the Mahayana school. And it has many sects and subsects and the following five are the most influential ones... |
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Tibet is the largest and highest plateau in the word. Therefore it is called the "roof of the world", and shares the name of the "third pole of the Earth"... |
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The majority of Tibet's population of 1,890,000 is Tibetans. Ideology of people in this land differs greatly from any other nationality both at home in china and in the world. Religion seems almost everything. And there are more than ten ethnic groups in Tibet, including Tibetan, Mongolian, Nu, Drung, Moinba, Lhoba, Hui, Naxi, Deng and Sherpa... |
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In Tibet, there are many festivals throughout the year that attract the faithful as well as curious onlookers. Losar is a colorful week of activities, including Tibetan drama, pilgrims making incense offerings and Tibetans dressed in their finest crowding the streets... |
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Tibet has fairly complete types of land resource tapping and utilization: farmland, garden land, forest land, pastoral land, urban and mineral land, communications land, water area and uncultivated land... |
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Tibet plateau is one of the most interesting regions in the world. It is the highest plateau in the world. Tibet Plateau has many firsts as following: It has the highest mountains in the world, the largest canyon in the world Yarlung Zangbo River, the largest scale of vertical eco-system zones... |
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The central Tibet, including Lhasa, Gyantse, Shigatse and Tsedang, generally has very mild weather from April to November, though July and August can be rainy - these two months usually see around half of Tibet's annual rainfall... |
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Tibet is surely a destination apart from most in the world, the rolling hills of the high plateau and the stunning Himalayas are none to any. Tibet, a "forbidden land" not only by man but also by nature, attracted many explorers, scholars, and pilgrims and adventure lovers, all in pursuit of "Real Shangri-la"... |
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