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unusual facts about Hor, Tibet



A Kid from Tibet

When the evil "Black Section of Esoteric Buddhism" had tried to invade Tibet years ago, the Tibetan monks used a powerful magical item, the "Babu Gold Bottle" to expel them.

Abies chensiensis

Abies chensiensis, the Shensi fir, is a fir native to Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev

International Symposium in the Urals (1989), in Nepal (Kathmandu), Tibet (Lhasa, 2000), on Lake - (artists Francisco Infante-Arana and Nonna Goryunova, Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatiana Badanina, Tishkov, Leonid, Shaburov, Alexander E., Porto, Ivan B., Chernyshev, Aristarchus A., Vladislav Yefimov, Batynkov, Konstantin, Olga Chernysheva)

Argali

In Tibet, the argali must regularly compete with other grazing species for pasture, including Tibetan antelope, bharal, Thorold's deer and wild yaks.

Aulocera padma

The butterfly is found in the Himalayas from Shingarh, (Zhob, Safed Koh, Kurram, Gilgit, Chitral, India (Kumaon, Bhutan, Sikkim and Chumbi valleys) eastwards across to Abor valley, north Myanmar, west China and southeast Tibet .

Campaign setting

Settings that have been explored in roleplaying games include Pendragon (Arthurian), Sengoku (Japanese warring states), Recon (Vietnam War), Tibet (historical Tibet), and Fantasy Imperium (historical Europe).

Cassandra Steen discography

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Catapilla

Calvert went on to play in Gong off-shoots, The Invisible Opera Company Of Tibet and Mother Gong with Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth.

Cintamani

In Buddhism the Chintamani is said to be one of four relics that came in a chest that fell from the sky (many terma fell from the sky in caskets) during the reign of king Lha Thothori Nyantsen of Tibet.

Drukgyal Dzong

The Dzong was probably built by Tenzin Drukdra in 1649 at the behest of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal to commemorate victory over an invasion from Tibet.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

At the age of sixty-seven, in early 1959 with the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet underway, he again became seriously ill.

Ekai Kawaguchi

He was a friend of Mrs. Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society, who encouraged him to publish the English text of his book, Three Years in Tibet.

Fateh Shah

According to Rahul Sankrityayan and Fateh Prakash, Raja Fateh Shah also invaded Tibet, where his sword and armour were preserved in the monastery at Daba for a long time.

Francisco Infante-Arana

International Symposium in the Urals (1989), in Nepal (Kathmandu), Tibet (Lhasa, 2000), on Lake - (artists Francisco Infante-Arana and Nonna Goryunova, Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev, Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatiana Badanina, Tishkov, Leonid, Shaburov, Alexander E., Porto, Ivan B., Chernyshev, Aristarchus A., Vladislav Yefimov, Batynkov, Konstantin, Olga Chernysheva)

Free Tibet

Free Tibet has also worked alongside celebrities such as Alan Rickman, David Threlfall, Juliet Stevenson, and Dominic West to record testimonies of tortured Tibetans.

Gartok

Cecil Rawling wrote of it as he saw it during the British expedition to Tibet:It was poor enough in all conscience, considering that it is the capital of Western Tibet, and that the Garpons reside here for about three months in the year, at which time it becomes a busy centre of commerce.

Gyêgu

Andreas Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Kham, vol.

Herbert James Walton

ex Pampanini, discovered and collected by Walton at Gyangtse on the British Expedition to Tibet, was named for him by the Scottish botanist James Drummond, curator of the herbarium at the Calcutta Royal Botanic Gardens.

Hugh Edward Richardson

He was an advocate of the right of Tibetans to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books, Tibet and Its History (1962) and A Cultural History of Tibet (1968), and at the United Nations when the issue of Chinese oppression of Tibet was raised by the Irish Republic, represented by Frank Aiken, during the 1959 UN General Assembly debate on Tibet.

Jelep La

With the growing Russian influence in Tibet, a British expedition was sent via Jelep La to Lhasa in 1904 led by Colonel Francis Younghusband.

Khamba

Tibetans who live in the historic region of Kham which covers parts of modern Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Northern Yunnan and the Tibet Autonomous Region

Lamaling Monastery

At that time, it was the seat of late Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987), who was chosen as the head of Nyingma school during his later exile to India, after Tibet came under control of the Chinese as an Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Lhakar

Another case of non violent and non cooperative action happened in Markham (in eastern Tibet), where Tibetans consider to have won an unprecedented victory in their fight for civil rights.

Lhalu Tsewang Dorje

In 2003, his son Gyai'ra Losang Dainzin (Jagra Lobsang Tenzin) became vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region government.

Lobortas Classic Jewelry House

The company was purchased by Maria Vladimirovna, claimant to the headship of the Imperial Family of Russia and pretender to the titles Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, presidents of CIS countries, businessmen and entertainers.

Lobsang Yeshe, Fifth Panchen Lama

The Panchen Lama refused a few times on the grounds of old age but was finally convinced to take control of the whole of Tibet lying to the west of Panam, and relinquished possession of Phari, Gyantse, and Yardosho and other places to the government in Lhasa.

Maurice Chappaz

Maurice Chappaz carried out still other numerous trips around the world : Laponia (1968), Paris (1968), Nepal and Tibet (1970), Mount Athos (1972), Lebanon (1974), Russia (1974 et 1979), China (1981), Quebec and New York (1990).

Mish

Mish may be similar to cheese that has been found in the tomb of the First DynastyPharoah Hor-Aha at Saqqara, from 3200 BC.

Nepalis in China

Trade routes to Tibet via Humla, Mustang, Kiyrong, Khasa and Wallangchung channeled north-south relations.

Northern Cyprus national football team

This also featured teams from Greenland, Tibet, Gibraltar, Zanzibar, and a team representing "The Republic of St. Pauli", amateur players drawn from the St Pauli district of Hamburg.

Norzang

Norzang was the son of Namkha Gyalpo, the chief of the Rinpung fief in Tsang (West Central Tibet).

Nujiang

Nujiang, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China

Perizzite

The Canaanite tribe settled in the south of Canaan between Hor and Negev, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy in Gen. x.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Religion and environmentalism

In a meeting with the U.S Ambassador to the Republic of India Timothy J. Roemer, the Dalai Lama urged the U.S to engage China on climate change in Tibet.

Robert W. Ford

After one year in Lhasa, he was requested to go to Chamdo, capital of eastern Tibet (Kham), to establish a radio link between Lhasa and Chamdo.

Salugara Monastery

The Great International Tashi Gomang Stupa, 6 km from Siliguri, West Bengal, India, includes a one hundred foot stupa built by Kalu Rinpoche, a Tibetan Lama.

Serfdom in Tibet controversy

Pico Iyer, a journalist whose father is a friend of the Dalai Lama and who has himself been in private conversation with him for over thirty years writes: "Almost as soon as he came into exile, in 1959, the Dalai Lama seized the chance to get rid of much of the red tape and serfdom that had beset Tibet in the past".

Seven Years in Tibet

Two films have been based on the book: one in 1956, Seven Years in Tibet, a 76-minute documentary directed by Hans Nieter which included both movies taken by Harrer during his stay in Tibet and various scenes from his adventures reconstructed by Harrer himself; and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud starring Brad Pitt as Harrer and David Thewlis as Aufschnaiter.

Siberian Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Tea brick

Ya'an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang (Paan) and Teko.

The Tibetan Dog

In this film, a young boy named Tenzing leaves for Tibet after his mother passes away to live with his Father in the prairies and encounters a true friend in form of a golden Tibetan Mastiff.

Tibetan independence movement

The PRC also points to what it calls the autocratic and theocratic policies of the government of Tibet before 1959, as well as its renunciation of South Tibet, claimed by China as a part of historical Tibet occupied by India, as well as the Dalai Lama's association with India, and as such claims the CTA has no moral legitimacy to govern Tibet.

Tom George Longstaff

He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island.

Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa

The mission was aborted when the Tibetan cabinet minister in eastern Tibet, Ngapöpa Ngawang Jikmé, apparently arranged an agreement with the Chinese.

Upper Mongols

They under name as Khoshuud Khanate of Tsaidam and the Koke Nuur are played a major role in SinoMongolTibetan politics of 17-18th centuries.

Woeser

Woeser is married to Wang Lixiong, a renowned author who frequently writes about Tibet.

Xihai Jun

In the 23rd year of Zhenguan (貞觀二十三年,AD 649), King of Xihai Jun (西海郡王) was conferred upon Songtsen Gampo (松贊幹布), the King of Tubo (吐蕃, or Tibet), by Tang Gaozong (唐高宗), the emperor of Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Yingtai

Her most famous works are "Hunting the Oroqen" (鄂倫春之獵), a short story about a researcher of Oroqen culture, and the short story collection Tibetan Lover (西藏愛人) (also called Romance in Tibet).


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