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After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, leaving the reader panting in her wake. Alongside her enchantment, Dervla became a perceptive witness to the realities of aid work: the corruption, smug piety and power struggles of the bureaucrats, a

Examines the relationship between Tibetan politics & religion, within Tibet & in exiled Tibetan settlements in India, arguing that the religious symbolism of Tibetan Buddhism influences the political language. In Tibet, religious idioms reappear as political expressions of opposition to Chinese rule, while Tibetan refugee elites in India reinterpret these idioms in their own terms, while redefining Tibetan identity & culture for the outside world & for refugees. In Dharamsala, the Indian headquarters of the Dalai Lama & the exiled Tibetan government, the educated, English-speaking refugees are the main producers of nationalist rhetoric in the secular sense. Reasons that secular nationalist arguments, rather than arguments based on religion, become a part of political discourse are discussed. 39 References. Adapted from the source document.

"The Tibetans provides a comprehensive introduction to this land, orienting the reader to the Tibetan geographical region and its inhabitants. Topics treated here include Tibetan religious and political history, together with major aspects of Tibetan culture: social institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, literature and the arts. A concluding chapter discusses the fragile position of Tibetan civilization in the modern world, surveying events that have transpired since Tibet's incorporation into the People's Republic of China."--BOOK JACKET

Your landmark history of modern Tibet, The Dragon in the Land of Snows, suggests a broad four-part periodization for developments since 3951. During the first period, 1951-59, the Chinese Communist Party sought to work in alliance with Tibet's traditional ruling class under the Seventeen-Point Agreement: a 'one country, two systems' arrangement, with autonomous rule by the Dalai Lama's government. After the flight of the Dalai Lama and the crushing of the 1959 rebellion, the second stage, 1960-78, saw the extension of Communist reforms on the Plateau and the redistribution of monastic and aristocratic lands, accelerating with the collectivizations and mass mobilizations of the Cultural Revolution. Following 1980, there was an era of much greater liberalization and Tibetanization' under Hu Yaobang, accompanied by open-door trade and migration policies-followed by a clampdown after 1989. Looking back, how would you characterize the situation in Tibet in the 1980s, under Hu Yaobang? Adapted from the source document.

China puts up its rural candidate for Panchen Lama and faces Tibet's religious leaders — with a hard choice

The author reports on his travels in Tibet with a brief look at its history, culture and religion. Socio-economic development of the region since December 1978. Increasing number of tourists visiting Lhasa and Tibet since 1985. (DÜI-Sen)