Tibet is a region in East Asia,covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa,Tamang,Qiang,Sherpa and Lhoba peoples and is now also home to considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people settlers. Tibet is the highest region on Earth,with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft). Located in the Himalayas,the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest,Earth's highest mountain,rising 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft) above sea level.
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region,often shortened to Tibet or Xizang,is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of Ü-Tsang and Kham.
Lhasa is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhasa City is equivalent to the administrative borders of Chengguan District,which is part of the wider prefectural Lhasa City.
The Tibetan independence movement is the political movement advocating for the separation and independence of Tibet from the People's Republic of China. It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States,and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States,India and Europe. The movement is no longer 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 Tibet Autonomous Region within China,or extending the area of the autonomy to include parts of neighboring Chinese provinces inhabited by Tibetans. Additionally in 2017,the Dalai Lama asserted that Tibetans wanted to stay with China,and that they want more development from China.
Inner Mongolia University is a university in Hohhot,Inner Mongolia,under the authority of the Inner Mongolia regional government. It is a member of the Chinese state Double First Class University Plan and former Project 211,and identified as a Double First Class University by Chinese Ministry of Education.
Kham is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions,the others being Amdo in the northeast,and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas,and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham presently covers a land area distributed between five regions in China,most of it in Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan,with smaller portions located within Qinghai,Gansu and Yunnan provinces.
Yanbian University is one of the key universities of the People's Republic of China,located at Yanji,Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture,Jilin Province. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University,included in the Double First Class University Plan.
Qinghai University is a university located in Xining city,the capital of Qinghai province,China. Established in 1958. As of July 2020,there are 67 undergraduate majors;5 doctoral degree authorization points,57 master degree authorization points,40 master degree authorization fields,and 69 undergraduate majors;15 colleges and 26 departments ( Department);there are 4615 faculty members and more than 27,000 students. It is the only university in Qinghai province listed in the former Project 211 program. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University,included in the Double First Class University Plan identified by the Ministry of Education.
DagzêDistrict is a district of Lhasa immediately east of the district of Chengguan,Tibet. The Lhasa River runs through the district. As of 2013 the total population was 29,152,mostly ethnic Tibetans engaged in agriculture. The district is home to the Ganden and Yerpa monasteries.
Lhasa Tibetan,or Standard Tibetan,is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa,the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The history of Tibet from 1950 to the present includes the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950,and the Battle of Chamdo. Before then,Tibet had been a de facto independent nation. In 1951,Tibetan representatives in Beijing signed the Seventeen-point Agreement under duress,which affirmed China's sovereignty over Tibet while it simultaneously provided for an autonomous administration led by Tibet's spiritual leader,and then-political leader,the 14th Dalai Lama. During the 1959 Tibetan uprising,when Tibetans arose to prevent his possible assassination,the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet to northern India where he established the Central Tibetan Administration,which rescinded the Seventeen-point Agreement. The majority of Tibet's land mass,including all of U-Tsang and areas of Kham and Amdo,was officially established in 1965 as Tibet Autonomous Region,within China.
Dolma Kyab,born in 1976,is a writer and teacher in his native Tibet. He was imprisoned at Chushur Prison,which is located in a rural area south-west of his native home,Lhasa,Tibet. On March 9,2005,he was arrested in Lhasa at the middle school where he was employed as a history teacher. On September 16,2005 he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Lhasa People’s Intermediate Court for the crime of stealing and/or passing on “state secrets.”
Chagpori,Chakpori,Chokpori,Chagpo Ri (Wylie:lcags po ri,literally "Iron Mountain";is a spirit-mountain of Vajrapani within the city of Lhasa in Tibet. It south of the Potala and just to the left when one is facing the Potala. It is considered to be one of the four holy mountains of central Tibet.
The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies,formerly called Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS),is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath,Varanasi,India,in 1967,as an autonomous organisation under Union Ministry of Culture. The CIHTS was founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso,the 14th Dalai Lama,with the aim of educating Tibetan youths in exile and Himalayan border students as well as with the aim of retranslating lost Indo-Buddhist Sanskrit texts that now existed only in Tibetan,into Sanskrit,to Hindi,and other modern Indian languages.
Sinicization of Tibet includes the programs and laws of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which force "cultural unity" in Tibetan areas of China,including the Tibet Autonomous Region and surrounding Tibetan-designated autonomous areas. The efforts are undertaken by China in order to remake Tibetan culture into mainstream Chinese culture.
The main religion in Tibet has been Buddhism since its outspread in the 8th century AD. The historical region of Tibet is nowadays mostly comprised by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and partly by the provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan. Before the arrival of Buddhism,the main religion among Tibetans was an indigenous shamanic and animistic religion,Bon,which now comprises a sizeable minority and which would later influence the formation of Tibetan Buddhism.
Education in Tibet is the public responsibility of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. Education of ethnic Tibetans is partly subsidized by the government. Primary and secondary education is compulsory,while preferential policies aimed at Tibetans seek to enroll more students in vocational or higher education.
The community of Nepalis in China consists of Nepalese immigrants and expatriates to China as well as Chinese citizens of Nepalese descent.
Lhasa is a prefecture-level city,one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It covers an area of 29,274 square kilometres (11,303 sq mi) of rugged and sparsely populated terrain. Its capital and largest city is Lhasa,with around 300,000 residents,which mostly corresponds with the administrative Chengguan District,while its suburbs extend into Doilungdêqên District and DagzêDistrict. The consolidated prefecture-level city contains additional five,mostly rural,counties.
Dorje Tseten,also Duojie Caidan (多傑才旦);November 1926,Huangzhong - July 6,2013,Beijing) is a scholar,historian and Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity. He was chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) before becoming the first director of the China Tibetology Research Center.
