These are Tibetan prayer flags.

And of course, this is what the Tibetan monks told us.

This is teaching Photoshop in the Tibetan children's village in Dharamsala.

When young Tibetan radicals staged a march to Lhasa from Indian soil, the Indian police stopped them well before they got to the Tibetan border, detaining 100. When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its protection for the Chinese diplomats.

The two scholars wrangled over the meaning of an obscure Tibetan phrase.

In 2008, for example, a Tibetan named Wangdu, an AIDS educator in Lhasa, received a life sentence for sending news about Tibetan protests to Tibetans abroad. The logic was clear preserve what China s leaders call stability and harmony in order to maintain state power.

Every year or so, I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

And they live up on the Chang Tang, the Tibetan Plateau, way in the western part of the country.

His one mistake is he's a Tibetan mastiff, and a few months later, he weighs, you know, 80 pounds.

Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan people (as well as other minority groups in China) are kins in one family.

(b) Repeal any ban instituted by local authorities on children of any age from participating in Tibetan religious festivals or receiving religious education

And if we slip from the realm of the sea into the realm of the spirit of the imagination, you enter the realm of Tibetan Buddhism.

This report has been translated into seven ethic minority languages including the Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Kazak, Korean, and Zhuang by the China Ethnic Languages Translation Bureau.

After the competition ended, captain Jiang Cuo said that he hoped to gain experience from taking part in the competition, and do his best for Tibetan basketball.

And the night before, we camped, and my Tibetan friends said, We are going to sleep outside. And I said, Why? We have enough space in the tent.

In the eyes of reporters who have been reporting on table tennis and badminton all year long, Tibetan mastiff Zhang Jike has already had the potential to become the next Lin Dan.

Also in that spirit, I will welcome the Dalai Lama to Beijing and negotiate with his leadership team a package of cultural autonomy and limited self government, satisfying once and for all the reasonable aspirations of the Tibetan people.

Capitalism is always a trade off we must live with unethical behavior by money making corporations that provide us with useful new tools. These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture.

Much to the consternation of the Western media, Chinese people worldwide lashed out against its allegedly biased coverage of the Tibetan riot. Throngs of Chinese expatriates and students took to the streets, protesting the prejudice they perceived in Western media reports.

All start on the great Tibetan Plateau and flow in parallel through the northwest corner of the province into Southeast Asia. They are China s last pristine rivers, but are now slated for sacrifice to satisfy the country s insatiable thirst for power.

Talk of human rights and democracy is nothing but a smoke screen for demonizing China. Arms sales to Taiwan, Tibetan activism, and color revolutions of various kinds are all sponsored by the US and other Western powers, and are aimed at weakening China.

The documentary Polar is a large scale work that focuses on the world's third pole, Qinghai Tibet Plateau. It tells a story for the integration of Tibetan tradition and the modern world and the interaction between Tibet and the world from a new perspective.

These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture. They also can be used to compute the number of exterminated Jews, to arrest a Chinese dissident, or to break a human rights group in Russia.

The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India. To speak of a bilateral trust deficit might be an understatement.

But, with Tibet locked behind an iron curtain since the 1951 Chinese annexation, the economies and cultures of the entire Himalayan region have weakened. Tibetan Buddhism, however, still serves as the common link, with the Karmapa s Kagyu sect a powerful force on the Indian side.

His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler Dewar.

The BRICS no strings policy explicitly challenges the conditionality imposed on borrowers by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, though the policy remains untested. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine China s leaders approving a loan to a country that, say, recognizes Taiwan or accepts Tibetan claims to independence.

Dorje Tashi, the wealthy owner of the Yak, a leading tourist hotel in Lhasa, is also said to be languishing in prison on vague political charges. In Tibet, where for the last 30 years major Tibetan businessmen had been seen as natural allies of the state, such developments are unprecedented.

My aunt Anasuya, who is one of my most important role models, delayed conventionally defined achievements in the professional world as she focused on raising a family. Now, with her children grown, she has gone off to Tibet for months to realize her dream of becoming a practitioner of Tibetan medicine.

NEW DELHI The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism has revived old suspicions about his continuing links with China and forced him to deny that he is an agent of Beijing.

Most of Asia s important international rivers originate in territories that were forcibly annexed to the People s Republic of China. The Tibetan Plateau, for example, is the world s largest freshwater repository and the source of Asia s greatest rivers, including those that are the lifeblood for mainland China and South and Southeast Asia.

PRAGUE The recent events in Tibet and adjoining provinces are causes for deep concern. Indeed, the dispersal of a peaceful protest march organized by Tibetan monks, which led to a wave of unrest that was brutally suppressed by the Chinese military and police, has caused indignation all over the democratic world.

The Committee recommends that on the mainland the State party strengthen efforts to eliminate discrimination against girls children infected with or affected by HIV AIDS children with disabilities Tibetan, Uighur and Hui children and children belonging to other ethnic and religious minorities internal migrant children and other vulnerable groups by

Vajpayee s blunder compounded Nehru s 1954 mistake in implicitly accepting, in the Panchsheel Treaty, China s annexation of Tibet, without securing (or even seeking) recognition of the then existing Indo Tibetan border. In fact, under the treaty, India forfeited all of the extraterritorial rights and privileges in Tibet that it had inherited from imperial Britain.

As the world reacts to China s crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it. India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

China would also have drawn comfort from the fact that, within the murky world of intra Tibetan politics, its anointed Karmapa, oddly, had the Dalai Lama s backing. Historically, the Dalai Lamas and Karmapa Lamas vied with each other for influence until the Dalai Lama s Gelug school gained ascendancy over the Kagyu order.

Throughout their histories, the Indian and Chinese civilizations were separated by the vast Tibetan plateau, limiting their interaction to sporadic cultural and religious contacts political relations were absent. It was only after China s annexation of Tibet in 1950 1951 that Han Chinese troops appeared for the first time on India s Himalayan frontiers.

Littered with a host of extremely sensitive anniversaries, 2009 could prove even more dramatic and unpredictable than 2008. Fast approaching is not only the March anniversary of last year s disturbances in Tibet, but also the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan unrest in 1959 that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

The two recent natural disasters in Burma and China have put this idea to a severe test. China has not fared too badly, largely because its government was forced by the Burmese example, bad publicity surrounding the Tibetan demonstrations, and the impending Olympic Games to allow far more freedom of information than it normally does.

Canadian researchers have discovered a vast Chinese surveillance system called GhostNet, which can compromise computers in organizations abroad through booby trapped e mail messages that automatically scan and transfer documents to a digital storage facility in China. This is what happened when computers of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India, were attacked last year.

It was abundantly evident in the run up to the Games how important it was to Chinese everywhere to show themselves to advantage. One got a sense of this when China s reputation and the Games status came under attack during the Tibetan demonstrations and protests against the Olympic torch as it made its tortured progress around the world.

Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault. The weight of the water impounded in the dam s massive reservoir was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir triggered seismicity.

That Chinese invasion was intended to teach India a lesson for its support of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan resistance. An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India s impotence.

While noting efforts by the State party to address the Committee's previous concerns related to discrimination, it remains concerned about discrimination against certain groups on the mainland, such as girls children infected with or affected by HIV AIDS children with disabilities ethnic and religious minorities, such as Tibetan, Uighur and Hui children and internal migrant children.

While noting the adoption of the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Act in 2001, which guarantees freedom of religion for ethnic minorities in mainland China, the Committee is concerned about reports that children, in particular Tibetan Buddhist, Uighur and Hui children, have been restricted in studying and practising their religion, and some cases have been detained for participating in religious activities.