Tibet: the true homeland of the Dalai Lama, who was banished from there when the Communist Chinese militarily invaded his homeland around 1950! Home of the Tibetan Buddhists in the Himalayas
Officially, an "autonomous region" of the People's Re-public of China, but, in fact, under the control of the Chinese state and the CCP. Tibet has been subject to a certain measure of Chinese authority since the 18th century, but it achieved a good deal of independence from about 1913 until 1950, when it was incorpo-rated into the PRC. An abortive revolt against Chinese domina-tion in 1959 led to a massive invasion and continued military occupation by the PLA. The CCP claims to have liberated Tibet from a cruel feudal system and to have promoted economic development in the area, while Tibetan nationalists accuse China of destroying the indigenous culture and turning Tibet into a dumping ground for its waste products. Sporadic demonstrations for independence have been quashed by the Chinese authorities.
The country of 'Yaks'. It is another spiritual country, North East of India which has achieved great feats in the field of tantra. The Tantriks there, known as Lamas, follow the Buddhist cult and are divided into different groups like the Himayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana etc.
an Asian country under the control of China; located in the Himalayas
The term Tibet is somewhat contested for political reasons. While it is frequently applied (especially by pro-Chinese sources) to the "Tibet Autonomous Region" of the Chinese Peopleís Republic, which corresponds roughly to the region of the Gelukpa state at Lhasa in 1950, this includes less than half of the Tibetan population within the Chinese Peopleís Republic. Several other Chinese provinces (Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu) include substantial Tibetan populations. Other culturally Tibetan regions include Ladakh, Zanskar, Lahul, Spiti, Kinnaur and Sikkim in India, much of Northern Nepal, and the independent kingdom of Bhutan.
(Xizang in Mandarin): Taken over by the Chinese in 1950 and named an "autonomous region." 1,200,000 square miles in area, with a population of 2,080,000. Capital: Lhasa. Tibetans protested violently against the Chinese in 1959, and again in 1988.
Tibet” in this report refers to “ethnographic” Tibet and encompasses the entire Tibetan plateau. Prior to China's occupation of Tibet, the plateau was divided into three provinces; Kham, Amdo and U-Tsang. This area includes what China now terms the “Tibet Autonomous Region” as well as Tibetan-inhabited portions of the neighbouring Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan. In Beijing's usage, “Tibet” refers only to that part of ethnographic Tibet now within the “Tibetan Autonomous Region”.
The Tibetan government-in-exile refers to the entire Tibet-Qinghai Plateau as "Tibet." But the word can also be used to refer to TAR (q.v.) only. "Tibet" is a word used in various European languages and was derived from the Arabic _Tubbat_, which was in turn derived from the Chinese TUFAN. [Partridge66
Tibet (older spelling Thibet; ; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西è—, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; also referred to as è—区 (Simplified Chinese), è—å€ (Traditional Chinese), Zà ngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), having the two names different connotations; see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigeneous home to the Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 m (16,000 ft), it is often called the "Roof of the World".
