Tibetan history Tibetan art Music of Tibet Tibetan rug Tibetan culture Tibetan cuisine Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Muslims Tibetan alphabet Tibetan (Unicode block)...

Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan, and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the...

Tibetans (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: bod pa, THL: bö pa) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated to be around...

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Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers....

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, Qingzang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South...

The Tibetan Mastiff is a large Tibetan dog breed. Its double coat is medium to long, subject to climate, and found in a wide variety of colors, including...

Tibetan languages or Tibetic languages are a branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Descending from Old Tibetan,...

Tibetan language may refer to: Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also...

The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po, lit. 'Great Tibet') was centered on the Tibetan Plateau and formed as a result of expansions...

western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau,...

The Tibetan Terrier is a medium-sized breed of dog that originated in Tibet. Despite its name, it is not a member of the terrier group. The breed was...

The Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata), also known as the Tibetan sand fox, is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau and Bhutan, China...

characters. Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region...

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The Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan: བོདབུས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས།་, Wylie: Bod mi'i sgrig 'dzugs, THL: Bömi Drikdzuk, IPA: [pʰỳ.mìː ʈìʔ.tsùʔ]...

The 1959 Tibetan uprising or Lhasa uprising began on 10 March 1959 as a series of protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, fueled by fears that the government...

Tibetan silver (Chinese Zangyin) in modern usage refers to a variety of white non-precious metal alloys used primarily in jewelry components, with an...

The Tibetan Spaniel is a breed of assertive, small dogs originating in Tibet. This breed is not a spaniel in the original meaning of the term; its breeding...

The Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), also known as Père David's Macaque, the Chinese stump-tailed macaque or Milne-Edwards' macaque, is a macaque species...

Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) is the linguistic reconstruction of the Sino-Tibetan proto-language and the common ancestor of all languages in it, including...

Tibetan Muslims, also known as the Khache (Tibetan: ཁ་ཆེ་, lit. 'Kashmiris'), are Tibetans who adhere to Islam. Many are descendants of Kashmiris, Ladakhis...

Classical Tibetan (Tibetan: ཆོས་སྐད།, Wylie: chos skad, Lhasa Tibetan pronunciation in IPA: /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.kɛː˥˨/, literally "doctrine language" or "religious...

long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region, the Tibetan Plateau, Tajikistan, the Pamir Mountains, and as far north as Mongolia...

Amdo Tibetan (Tibetan script: ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད་, Wylie: A-mdo’i skad, Lhasa dialect: [ámtokɛ́ʔ], natively [amdeskɛ] or [amdihke], also called Am kä), or Amdo...

The Tibetan independence movement (Tibetan: བོད་རང་བཙན Bod rang btsan; simplified Chinese: 西藏独立运动; traditional Chinese: 西藏獨立運動) is the political movement...

Tibetan cuisine includes the culinary traditions and practices of the Tibetan people in the Tibet region. The cuisine reflects the Tibetan landscape of...

The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly...

The Tibetan diaspora are Tibetan people residing outside Tibet and mainland China. The diaspora mostly consists of Tibetans exiled from Tibet, their land...

Tibetan names typically consist of two juxtaposed elements. Family names are rare except among those of aristocratic ancestry and then come before the...

The Tibetan calendar (Tibetan: ལོ་ཐོ, Wylie: lo-tho), or the Phukpa calendar, known as the Tibetan lunar calendar, is a lunisolar calendar composed of...

Central Tibetan language, also known as Ü-Tsang dialect, Dbus Tibetan, or Ü Tibetan, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard...

The Tibetan Army (Tibetan: དམག་དཔུང་བོད་, Wylie: dmag dpung bod) was the armed forces of Tibet from 1913 to 1959. It was established by the 13th Dalai...

The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises first described by Peter Kelder in a 1939 booklet titled The Eye of Revelation, published in Los Angeles...

The tangka (Tibetan: Tam or dngul Tam = silver tangka) was a currency of Tibet until 1941. It was subdivided into 15 skar or 1+1⁄2 sho and, from 1909...

The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (Tibetan: གཙོད་, Wylie: gtsod, pronounced [tsǿ]; Chinese: 藏羚羊; pinyin: zànglíngyáng) is a medium-sized...

Tibetan Americans are Americans of Tibetan ancestry. As of 2020, more than 26,700 Americans are estimated to have Tibetan ancestry. The majority of Tibetan...

The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of protests and demonstrations that initially occurred...

Republic of China and do not acknowledge it as an independent state. While Tibetan independence advocates argue Tibet had periods of de facto independence...

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Guhyamantrayāna ("Secret Mantra Vehicle"), Tantrayāna ("Tantra Vehicle"), Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a vehicle of the...

The CIA Tibetan program was an anti-communist covert operation spanning almost twenty years. It consisted of "political action, propaganda, paramilitary...

Tibetan culture has a long history of producing armor for military and ceremonial use. Tibetan armor came in many forms, and was produced into the 20th...

Tibetan Government may refer to: Currently governing Tibet: Government of Tibet Autonomous Region, an autonomous region in the People's Republic of China...

The 1987–1989 Tibetan unrest was a series of protests and demonstrations that called for Tibetan independence. These protests took place between September...

Old Tibetan is the earliest attested form of Tibetan language, reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th...

Tibetan bell may refer to: Tibetan Bells (album), a 1971 album by Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings Ghanta, a Tibetan handbell usually paired with a vajra...

by pointing to the Ming court's issuing of various titles to Tibetan leaders, Tibetans' full acceptance of the titles, and a renewal process for successors...

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Over 400 Tibeto-Burmese languages are spoken throughout the...

Tibetans in India constitute one of the largest Tibetan exile communities in the world. Following the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, the 14th...

Standard Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin or ZWPY (Chinese: 藏文拼音; pinyin: Zàngwén Pīnyīn), is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language...

The Sino-Tibetan War of 1930–1932 (Chinese: 康藏糾紛; pinyin: Kāngcáng jiūfēn, lit. Kham–Tibet dispute), also known as the Second Sino-Tibetan War, began...

the development of its distinct culture. Tibetan Buddhism has exerted a particularly strong influence on Tibetan culture since its introduction in the seventh...

Tibetan astrology (Tibetan: དཀར་རྩིས, Wylie: dkar rtsis) is a traditional discipline of the Tibetan peoples that has influence from both Chinese astrology...

Tibetan astronomy describes the study of space in Tibet. Its religious elements are strongly influenced by Buddhism, and by both Chinese astronomy and...

invasion of Tibet" by the exiled Central Tibetan Administration and much of the Tibetan diaspora. The Tibetan government and local social structure remained...

The Tibetan blackbird (Turdus maximus) is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is found in the Himalayas from northern Pakistan to southeastern...

Khams Tibetan (Tibetan: ཁམས་སྐད, Wylie: Khams skad, THL: Khamké, Lhasa dialect: [kʰam˥˨ kɛː˥˨], Khams Tibetan pronunciation: [kʰɑ̃ː˥˧ kɛˀˑ] (Dêgê dialect))...

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is a central armed police force in India, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It is responsible...

Tibetan calligraphy is the calligraphic tradition of writing the Tibetan language. As in other parts of East Asia, nobles, high lamas, and persons of high...

Tibetan Freedom Concert is the name given to a series of socio-political music festivals held in North America, Europe and Asia from 1996 onwards to support...

speakers of Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan cannot typically understand speakers of Amdo Tibetan varieties. Descending from Old Tibetan, there are 50 recognized...

Tibetan rug making is an ancient, traditional craft. Tibetan rugs are traditionally made from Tibetan highland sheep's wool, called changpel. Tibetans...

The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a compilation of the Buddhist sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Canon includes the Kangyur...

Tibetan numerals is the numeral system of the Tibetan script and a variety of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It is used in the Tibetan language and has...

Tibet until his death in 1933. The de facto independent Tibetan government (1912–1951) and Tibetan exiles promote the status of independent nation, with...

in Mongolia derives much of its recent characteristics from Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelug and Kagyu lineages, but is distinct and presents...

Traditional Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan: གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། (bod lugs) Gso ba rig pa) is the Tibetan medical system developed in the 8th century...

Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus), also known as Tibetan blue bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the eastern Tibetan...

Tibetan fur refers to the white wool of the Tibetan lamb. Its origin is not really from Tibet, but from the Chinese provinces Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei...

While the Tibetan Plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the creation of Tibetan script in...

dialects: phonology". In Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. (eds.). The Sino-Tibetan languages. Routledge. pp. 72–83. ISBN 978-0-7007-1129-1. Crystal, David...

The Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes. They are found widely across the...

Tibetan mythology refers to the traditional as well as the religious stories that have been passed down by the Tibetan people. Tibetan mythology consists...

/ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/, US: /ˈdɑːlaɪ/; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of...

Tibetan White Crane (Chinese: 西藏白鶴拳, "Tibetan White Crane Fist"), also known in Cantonese as Bak Hok Pai (白鶴派, "White Crane Style"), is a Chinese martial...

The Tibetan bunting (Emberiza koslowi) is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae. It is endemic to eastern side of the Tibetan Plateau. The specific...

(Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ།, romanized: shar pa) are a Tibetan ethnic group native to the mountainous regions of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous...

range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the...

Tibetan literature generally refers to literature written in the Tibetan language or arising out of Tibetan culture. Historically, Tibetan has served as...

The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), officially the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, is the unicameral and highest legislative organ...

Tibetan cheese is a food staple in Tibetan cuisine. Tibetan cheeses include soft cheese curds resembling cottage cheese made from buttermilk called chura...

The srang (pronounced "sang"; in Tibetan often referred to as "dngul srang" i.e. "silver srang") was a currency of Tibet between 1909 and 1959. It circulated...

(Procapra picticaudata), also known as the Tibetan gazelle, is a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau. The goa is a relatively small antelope...

subsequent self-immolation protests. Over the years the Tibetan government in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has shifted the goal of its resistance...

The Tibetan horn or dungchen (Tibetan: དུང་ཆེན།, Wylie: dung chen, ZWPY: tungqên, literally "big conch," also called rag dung (རག་དུང་, literally "brass...

province in Southwestern China. It is located in the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the...

The Tibetan Review is a Tibetan monthly magazine and news website published in English, based in Delhi, India. It was originally published in Darjeeling...

The Tibetan Dog (Chinese: 藏獒多吉; Japanese: チベット犬物語 ～金色のドージェ～) is a 2011 Chinese/Japanese animated film directed by Masayuki Kojima, co-produced by Madhouse...

The Dogra–Tibetan war, also called the Sino–Sikh war, was fought from May 1841 to August 1842 between the Dogra-led Kingdom of Jammu, a federal subject...

the location of the Bir Tibetan Colony, founded in the early 1960s as a settlement for Tibetan refugees after the 1959 Tibetan uprising. Bir is noted for...

The Tibetan Kyi Apso (Tibetan: འདོགས་ཁྱི; Wylie: 'dogs khyi) is a medium to large sized breed of livestock guardian dog originating from Tibet and the...

Tibetan Canadians are Canadian citizens of Tibetan ancestry. Although Tibetan Canadians comprise a small portion of Asian Canadians, Canada holds one...

support for human rights in Tibet and Tibetan independence. According to the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan flag has the following symbolism:...

The Tibetan pony is a horse breed originating in Tibet. Once thought to be simple hardy mountain ponies developed from Mongolian stock, recent research...

Tibetans in Switzerland (German: Tibeter in der Schweiz; Standard Tibetan: སུའེ་ཙེར་གྱི་བོད་རིགས་) are people of Tibetan origin or descent living in Switzerland...

30°02′58″N 101°57′44″E / 30.0495°N 101.9623°E / 30.0495; 101.9623 Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous...

Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex at Eskdalemuir, Scotland. It is associated with the Karma Kagyu school. Before...

Tibetan tea or Tibeti chá, is a post-fermented tea that originated in Ya'an. It has been long been traded as a tea brick between China and Tibet. The...

The Tibetan sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes tibetanus) is a large bird in the sandgrouse family. The genus name Syrrhaptes is from Ancient Greek surrhaptos, "sewn...

The Tibetan rosefinch (Carpodacus roborowskii), also known as Roborovski's rosefinch, is a species of rosefinch in the finch family Fringillidae. It is...

Kham (Tibetan: ཁམས་, Wylie: khams; Chinese: 康; pinyin: Kāng) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Domey also known as Amdo...

Tibetans in Burma are a relatively unknown and small Tibetan population outside of Tibet. They are concentrated primarily in the northernmost village in...

and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959, and subsequently led the Tibetan government...

converts and practitioners through interest in meditation, philosophy, Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Theravada, and other traditions. American Buddhism includes immigrant...

Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Wylie: Bod) was a de facto independent state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation...

Tibetan Uprising may refer to: The 1959 Tibetan uprising The 2008 Tibetan unrest Tibetan Uprising Day, observed on March 10. This disambiguation page lists...

The Tibetan snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus) is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. This species...

Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose...

(1271–1368) in China, Tibetan Buddhism spread beyond Tibet to Mongolia and China. From the 14th to the 20th centuries, Tibetan Buddhism was patronized...

The Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) was a ministry-level commission of the Executive Yuan in the Republic of China. It was disbanded on...

Potala Palace (Tibetan: ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ་, Wylie: pho brang po ta la; simplified Chinese: 布达拉宫; traditional Chinese: 布達拉宮; pinyin: Bùdálā Gōng) is a museum...

various Indian religions, and hum represents the spirit of enlightenment. In Tibetan Buddhism, this is the most ubiquitous mantra and its recitation is a popular...

Tibetan is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tibetan, Dzongkha, and other languages of China, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, northern India, eastern...

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mtsho-byang bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, Tib.pin...

Bir Tibetan Colony is a Tibetan refugee settlement in the Himalayan village of Chowgan adjacent to the town of Bir, in the north Indian state of Himachal...

Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་, Wylie: lo-sar; "new year"), also known as the Tibetan New Year, is a festival in Tibetan Buddhism. The holiday is celebrated on...

The Tibetan skar was a weight unit representing a 100th part of one srang or the 10th part of one sho (i.e. about 0.37 g). The term was also used to refer...

March 1999) was a British historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu...

from the Tibetan language. There is some debate over the exact origin of the name; some say the word "apso" is an anglicized form of the Tibetan word for...

The Tibetan lark (Melanocorypha maxima) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found on the Tibetan Plateau from north-western India to central...

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life is a self-declared "un-memoir" by Tom Robbins. It is written in his characteristically imaginative...

The South Tibetan Detachment is one of the major faults in the Himalaya Mountains. Understanding the formation of the Himalayan mountains has been a goal...

The Tibetan conquest of the Tarim Basin was a series of military campaigns by the Tibetan Empire against the Tang dynasty from 670 to 678, which resulted...

Tibetan Buddhist architecture, in the cultural regions of the Tibetan people, has been highly influenced by Nepal, China and India. For example, the Buddhist...

most popular claiming the body belonged to an Indian member of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition (ITBP) who died as part of the 1996 climbing disaster...

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Kan-lho Bod-rigs...

holiday was adopted by the Tibetan legislature on 19 January 2009 and it was promulgated that same year. In modern Tibetan history, the Chinese Premier...

Tibetan monasteries are known for their culture and traditions, which are rooted in Buddhist teachings. An important aspect of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries...

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1992, is a presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book...

Namkhai Norbu (Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: nam mkha’i nor bu; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a...

Bon or Bön (Tibetan: བོན་, Wylie: bon, ZWPY: Pön, Lhasa dialect: [pʰø̃̀]), also known as Yungdrung Bon (Tibetan: གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་, Wylie: gyung drung bon...

Asian Buddhist tradition, and the Tibetan Buddhist Canon maintained by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Classical Tibetan are the three main important scriptural...

monastic vows in the Theravada and Vajrayana schools. The official lineage of Tibetan Buddhist bhikkhunīs recommenced on 23 June 2022 in Bhutan when 144 nuns...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

Tibetan Foothold is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1966. After her journey by bicycle from Ireland to...

A Tibetan prayer flag is a colorful rectangular cloth, often found strung along trails and peaks high in the Himalayas. They are used to bless the surrounding...

Gangdise Shan mountain range of the Transhimalaya, in the western part of the Tibetan Plateau. The peak of Mount Kailash is located at an elevation of 6,638 m...

kiang) is the largest species of the Asinus subgenus. It is native to the Tibetan Plateau in Ladakh India, northern Pakistan, China and northern Nepal. It...

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, Wylie: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs...

Tibetan Braille is the Braille alphabet for writing the Tibetan language. It was invented in 1992 by German social worker Sabriye Tenberken. It is based...

The Treaty of Chushul, or the Dogra–Tibetan Treaty of 1842, was a peace treaty signed between the Tibetan government of Ganden Phodrang (then a protectorate...

1206, which is considered anachronistic; there is no evidence of Mongol-Tibetan encounters prior to the military campaign in 1240. The first confirmed...

In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (Classical Tibetan: བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese...

Ophiocordycipitaceae. It is primarily found in high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau. It parasitizes larvae of ghost moths and produces a fruiting body...

area at 453,700 square kilometres (175,200 sq mi), Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan...

Tibetan tantric practice, also known as "the practice of secret mantra", and "tantric techniques", refers to the main tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism...

The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of elk/wapiti native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan...

Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism is the categorization of Buddhist tantric scriptures in Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism inherited numerous tantras...

The Tibetan serin (Spinus thibetanus) or Tibetan siskin is a true finch species (family Fringillidae). The Tibetan serin was formerly placed in the genus...

November 1956. It was originally claimed that the book was written by a Tibetan monk named Lobsang Rampa. On investigation the author was found to be one...

is an important cultural marker in places significantly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism such as Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Kalmykia, and Buryatia. It is also...

नेपाल-भोट युद्ध) of 1855–1856 was fought in Tibet between the forces of the Tibetan government (then a protectorate of the Qing dynasty) and the invading Nepalese...

A dzi bead (Tibetan: གཟི།; pronounced "zee"; alternative spelling: gzi) a type of agate bead of uncertain origin found in the Himalayan regions including...

to the present includes the Chinese annexation of Tibet, during which Tibetan representatives signed the controversial Seventeen Point Agreement following...

protest itself. 2011 Algerian self-immolations Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China "Self-immolation as political protest: a brief modern history"...

Tibetan alphabet Tibetan art Tibetan Book of the Dead Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhist canon Tibetan calendar Tibetan cheese Tibetan culture Tibetan...

wrote, edited and translated books about Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University,...

The Kadam school (Tibetan: བཀའ་གདམས་པ་, Wylie: bka' gdams pa) of Tibetan Buddhism, or Kadampa was an 11th century Buddhist tradition founded by the great...

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Golog (Golok or Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 果洛藏族自治州; pinyin: Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie:...

practices continued to have an influence into the late imperial period and Tibetan Buddhism was also influential during the Yuan dynasty period and beyond...

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL), formerly the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (THDL), is a multimedia guide and digital library hosted by...

independent Tibetan state. PRC victory led to the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. The Khampa Tibetans and Lhasa Tibetans held each...

This is a list of Tibetan dishes and foods. Tibetan cuisine includes the culinary traditions and practices of Tibet and its peoples, many of whom reside...

Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet...

and textual collections in different languages (such as Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese). Buddhist schools vary in their interpretation of the paths...

Tibetan Freedom Concert is a live album by various artists, recorded at the 1997 Tibetan freedom concert held in New York City to support Tibetan independence...

This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Liberation Through Hearing is the first opera by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon. The libretto is from Jean-Claude...

Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, ZWPY: Yüxü Poirig Ranggyong Kü, Chinese: 玉树藏族自治州; pinyin: Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu...

Tibetan grammar describes the morphology, syntax and other grammatical features of Lhasa Tibetan, a Sino-Tibetan language. Lhasa Tibetan is typologically...

responsible for creating the Tibetan Canon through translating all of the Buddha's teachings and their commentaries into the Tibetan language. According to...

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead (commonly referred to as The Psychedelic Experience) is a 1964 book about using...

Dzogchen (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་, Wylie: rdzogs chen 'Great Completion' or 'Great Perfection'), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings...

in the classical texts to refer to this practice include "Karmamudra" (Tibetan: ལས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ las kyi phyag rgya, "action seal") in Buddhist tantras...

when Buddhism was introduced by missionaries from India and Nepal. The Tibetan Empire fought with the Tang dynasty for control over territory dozens of...

The ground tit, Tibetan ground tit, or Hume's ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) is a bird of the Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas. The peculiar...

argali (O. a. darwini) lives in northern China and southern Mongolia. Tibetan argali (O. a. hodgsoni) occurs across India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. North...

1967) is a Bhutanese-German professor for Tibetan (Buddhist) Studies at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies in the University of Hamburg's...

genetically basal to the Holarctic grey wolf, genetically the same wolf as the Tibetan and Mongolian wolf, and has an association with the African wolf (Canis...

Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS), formerly called the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS; Tibetan: ཝ་ཎ་མཐོ་སློབ, Wylie: wa...

others remain in ruins. Mongolian Buddhism derives from the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. In Mongolia during the 1920s, approximately one third of males...

between death and rebirth. Amongst them are the famous "Tibetan Book of the Dead", in Tibetan Bardo Thodol, the "Natural Liberation through Hearing in...

Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས་འབྱུང་གནས།, Wylie transliteration: 'jigs med phun tshogs 'byung gnas) (1933 – 7 January 2004)...

The Tibetan shrew (Sorex thibetanus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in western China. Smith, A.T. (2016). "Sorex thibetanus"...

The Tibetan sand plover (Anarhynchus atrifrons) is a small wader in the plover family of birds, breeds in Pamir Mountains, Tian Shan, Tibetan Plateau...

Tibetan autobiography, or, rangnam (Tibetan: ་་རང་རྣམ, ་Wylie: rang-rnam), is a form of autobiography native to Tibetan Buddhism. Although autobiography...

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) is an international non-governmental organization that advocates the independence of Tibet from China. With around 30...

Sino-Tibetan relations may refer to: Tang–Tibet relations Song–Tibet relations Tibet under Yuan rule Ming–Tibet relations Tibet under Qing rule Tibet...

on behalf of the British government and Lonchen Shatra on behalf of the Tibetan government. It spans 890 kilometres (550 miles) from the corner of Bhutan...

The Dalai Lama title was created by Altan Khan in 1587. According to Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is believed by adherents to be able to choose the...

Sikyong (Tibetan: སྲིད་སྐྱོང༌, Wylie: srid-skyong, Lhasa dialect: [ˈsícóŋ]) is the political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration, a Tibetan exile...

Machig Labdrön (Tibetan: མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་, Wylie: ma gcig lab sgron, sometimes referred to as Ahdrön Chödron, Tibetan: ཨ་སྒྲོན་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་, Wylie: A sgron...

Sino-Tibetan War was a 1930–32 war in East Asia. Sino-Tibetan wars may also refer to: Tibetan attack on Songzhou (638) Battle of Dafei River (670) Battle...

Tangut (extinct) Tibeto-Kanauri Bodish Tibetan Central Tibetan (Standard Tibetan) Amdo Tibetan Khams Tibetan Baima Tshangla Zhangzhung (extinct) Lolo–Burmese–Naxi...

Chinese language varieties together form the largest branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. While the Chinese government defines all spoken Chinese varieties...

A Tibetan-language film is a motion picture where the Tibetan language is spoken significantly. Some Tibetan language films include "Tharlo" and Old Dog...

from the era of the Tibetan Empire (8th–9th centuries), with the translation of the Sukhāvatīvyūha sūtras into Tibetan. Tibetan documents from Dunhuang...

Xing Xing (Chinese: 星星) is a Tibetan macaque who lives in the Daliang Mountains in Zhejiang province, Ningbo, Ninghai county, Dongnanxi Villagers Committee...

Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine (西藏藏医药大学, Tibetan: བོད་ལྗོངས་བོད་ལུགས་གས་རིག་སློབ་ཆེན།) is a full-time university. It is publicly funded, provincially-affiliated...

history of the relationship between the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China and Tibetan regimes during the Era of Fragmentation is a diplomatic history between...

of Qing China where authority was shared between local Kham chiefs and Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. The lamas in the monastery were under the suzerainty...

Muthukulam, in Alappuzha district of Kerala State, India He joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police as a photographer in 1987 prior to which he working as a...

place during the Sino-Tibetan War. The 13th Dalai Lama wanted to expand the original conflict taking place between the Tibetan Army and Liu Wenhui (Sichuan...

Qing dynasty until the 1911 Revolution, after which a period of de facto Tibetan independence (1912–1951) followed. The invasion was intended to counter...

Momos are a type of steamed, filled dumpling in Nepalese and Tibetan cuisine, and are also popular in neighbouring Bangladesh, Bhutan, and India. They...

invasion also coincided with the Era of Fragmentation and the collapse of the Tibetan Empire. The expedition was aided by Ali Mech, a tribal chief from the foothills...

Instead, the Tibetans inhale more air with each breath and breathe more rapidly than either sea-level populations or Andeans. Tibetans have better oxygenation...

This is a chronological list of important Tibetan writers. Derge Parkhang Sa'gya library "Lord Jigten Sumgön - Founder of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage"....

they were called Bukkyōsha (practitioners of the Buddha's teachings). Tibetan and Himalayan communities use the term Chos-pa to denote those following...

Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" (Tibetan: ཕྱག་མཚན་, THL: chaktsen) are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these...

Buddhist, he was involved in the Tibetan independence movement, started the Milarepa Fund, and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert. He died in 2012...

thangka painting (Nepali pronunciation: [ˈt̪ʰaŋka]; Tibetan: ཐང་ཀ་; Nepal Bhasa: पौभा) is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually...

Most Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, temples and other religious structures in the Himalayas were decorated with Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings. Despite...

Indigenous Tibetan groups are found in Nepal, Bhutan, India and further abroad. The religious music of Tibet reflects the profound influence of Tibetan Buddhism...

The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པཎ་ཆེན་བླ་མ།, Wylie: paN chen bla ma) is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen Lama is one of the most...

and guanfo, and the Tiantai method of "calming and insight" (zhǐguān). Tibetan Buddhism and other forms of Vajrayana mainly rely on the tantric practice...

debate has a political dimension. The Chinese government asserts that Tibetan culture, government, and society were feudal in nature before the PRC takeover...

translated into classical Tibetan, but this was not understood by most people. Yoseb Gergen (a.k.a. Sonam Gergen), a Tibetan Christian translated the entire...

Tibetan culture includes a widespread belief in ghosts. Ghosts are explicitly recognized in the Tibetan Buddhist religion as they were in Indian Buddhism...

The World of Tibetan Buddhism is a 1995 book written by the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, in which he offers a clear and penetrating...

Languages spoken by ethnic minorities represent six language families: Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai–Kadai, Indo-European, Austronesian and Hmong–Mien...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

popular instrument in the US-originating new-age genre often marketed as 'Tibetan music'. Standing bells are known by a wide variety of terms in English...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

The Catholic Church is a minority religious organization in Tibet, where Tibetan Buddhism is the faith of the majority of people. Its origin dates from...

The 2010 Tibetan language protest was a series of protests in Tongren County, Gonghe County and Maqên County, in Qinghai Province; Minzu University of...

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་)...

Dhvaja (Sanskrit: ध्वज, romanized: Dhvaja, lit. 'flag'; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: rgyal-msthan) is the Sanskrit term for a banner or a flag. Flags are...

mostly represented in "Northern Buddhism", also called "Indo-Tibetan Buddhism" (or just "Tibetan Buddhism"), but also overlaps with certain forms of East...

Tibetan Plateau, a geographical region in Asia Tibet Autonomous Region, a province of the People's Republic of China formed in 1965 Central Tibetan Administration...

Trimeresurus tibetanus, also commonly known as the Tibetan bamboo pit viper and the Tibetan pit viper, is a species of venomous pit viper in the family...

The Je Khenpo (Tibetan: རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་, Wylie: Rje Mkhan-po; "The Chief Abbot of the Central Monastic Body of Bhutan"), formerly called the Dharma Raja by...

arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia (including a large collection of Tibetan art), Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections...

commonly used in North Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese and Bhutanese cultures. It is a Tibetan name meaning "merit" (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས, Wylie: bsod nams, ZWPY:...

sequence according to certain rules, usually related to a religion (e.g. Tibetan Buddhism and the Mo system of cubomancy). Another branch of cleromancy...

million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The...

Ngima Shakabpa (Tibetan: ཞྭ་སྒབ་པ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཉི་མ, Wylie: zhwa sgab pa tshul khrims nyi ma, born 7 September 1943 in Lhasa) is a Tibetan banker, activist...

Balep (Standard Tibetan: བག་ལེབ།) is a Tibetan quickbread. There are also other types of Tibetan cuisine "balep" breads and fried pies including: Amdo...

training" teachings, considered an indirect founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism B. R. Ambedkar, founder of Navayāna Bhāviveka, early expositor...

The Tibetan Annals or Old Tibetan Annals (OTA) are composed of two manuscripts written in Old Tibetan language found in the early 20th century in the...

The Emblem of Tibet is a symbol of the Tibetan government in exile. It combines several elements of the flag of Tibet, with slightly different artistry...

Tibet Cheezheng Tibetan Medicine (Chinese: 西藏奇正藏药股份有限公司), or Tibet Qizheng Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd (abbreviated as Qizheng Tibetan Medicine, Chinese:...

Muli Tibetan Autonomous County (Chinese: 木里藏族自治县; pinyin: Mùlǐ Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: སྨི་ལི་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong; Yi:...

The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) is a women's association based in McLeodGanj, Dharamshala, India. The group was officially formed on 10 September...

The courtyard houses the Tibetan Buddhist Institute (西藏佛学院 Xīzàng fóxuéyuàn), which was founded in 2011. Branches of the Tibetan Buddhist Institute were...

Tibetan Bells is a 1972 album by Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings. It was the first recording to use Tibetan bells and singing bowls, and helped establish...

force cultural assimilation in Tibetan areas of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region and the surrounding Tibetan-designated autonomous areas. The...

Stonggnyen Tibetan is a Tibetic language of Sichuan, China. It is unintelligible with other Tibetic varieties spoken in the area. Stonggnyen is spoken...

Shechen Gyaltsab (Tibetan: སེ་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་ཚབ; full name: Shechen Gyaltsab Gyurme Pema Namgyal; 1871–1926) was a principal lineageholder of Tibetan Buddhism. As...

The Tibetan eye chart is a tool allegedly developed by Tibetan monks.[unreliable source?][unreliable source?][unreliable source?] According to some authors...

the Sakya dynasty (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་, Wylie: sa skya, Chinese: 薩迦王朝; pinyin: Sàjiā Wángcháo) after the favored Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The region...

Lhamo (Standard Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ, romanized: Lha mo), or Ache Lhamo, is a classical secular theatre of Tibet with music and dance that has been performed...

army. Ma Bufang had a conflicted relationship with the Tibetan population of Qinghai. Some Tibetan Buddhists served in his army while others were crushed...

The Tibetan land reform movement refers to a series of land reform movements implemented by the Government of the People's Republic of China in the Tibetan...

Chinese name "Qinghai" is after Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in China. In Tibetan, the lake is known as མཚོ སྔོན་པོ (Mtsho-sngon-po) or Tso ngönpo ("Blue...

Chinese and local Tibetan authority. Coins bearing Tibetan inscriptions only were subsequently replaced by issues which had Chinese and Tibetan legends. This...

issued since 1972 by the Central Tibetan Administration (commonly known as the Tibetan Government in Exile) to Tibetans living outside Tibet, and described...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

nationalism and was the first Western woman to take full ordination in Tibetan Buddhism. Freda Marie Houlston was born in a flat above her father's jewellery...

Recognition Notes Image Lhasa Apso AKC FCI Shih Tzu ENCI FCI Tibetan Kyi Apso None Tibetan Mastiff AKC FCI Tibetan Spaniel AKC FCI Tibetan Terrier AKC FCI...

Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa...

Zhongu (Zhonggu) Tibetan is a Tibetic language of Sichuan, China, once considered a dialect of Khams. It is spoken in Songpan County. N. Tournadre (2005)...

development and dissemination of Vajrayāna Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhist traditions view it as a Beyul (Tibetan: སྦས་ཡུལ, Wylie: sbas-yul), a legendary heavenly...

[citation needed] ʼPhags-pa or ḥPʻags-pa script is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa...

A prayer wheel, or mani wheel, is a cylindrical wheel (Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ།, Wylie: 'khor lo, Oirat: кюрдэ) for Buddhist recitation. The wheel is installed...

Tibetan Uprising Day, observed on March 10, commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising which began on March 10, 1959, and the Women's Uprising Day of March...

The Tibetan National Congress is a Tibetan political party in exile of pro-independence ideology founded on 13 February 2013. The party maintains more...

The Tibetan toad (Bufo tibetanus) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to China (easternmost Tibet, southernmost Qinghai, and western...

Begtse (Tibetan: བེག་ཚེ་, Wylie: beg tse chen lcam sring; "Begtse the Great Coat of Mail") is a dharmapala and the lord of war in Tibetan Buddhism, originally...

from Plympton in Devon, who claimed that his body hosted the spirit of a Tibetan lama going by the name of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who is purported to have...

Primula florindae, the Tibetan cowslip or giant cowslip, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is native to southeastern Tibet...

Chemi Lhamo is a Tibetan-Canadian human rights activist known for her advocacy on behalf of the Tibetan community. Born in South India, she has dedicated...

Lung (Tibetan: རླུང rlung) means wind or breath. It is a key concept in the Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and has a variety of meanings. Lung...

The Ladakhi–Balti languages or Western Archaic Tibetan languages are a subgroup of the Tibetic languages spoken in the Ladakh region of India and in the...

There are three main Buddhist branches there; Han or Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Theravada Buddhism. There is no definitive answer to the...

100°27′23″E / 32.1356°N 100.4565°E / 32.1356; 100.4565 Larung Gar (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་སྒར་, Wylie: bla rung sgar), also known by its Chinese name as...

Jampal Trinley Dradül, born Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo (November 1962), is a Tibetan Buddhist master and holder of the Sakyong Lineage of Mukpodong, his family...

27°49′N 99°42′E / 27.82°N 99.70°E / 27.82; 99.70 Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northwestern Yunnan province,...

legal action to challenge the directive. Since the announcement, RFA's Tibetan, Burmese, Korean, Lao, Cantonese, Khmer and Uyghur language services have...

the Tibetan government and was viewed with hostility by the Tibetans. The PRC hoped that Tibetan integration would be easier with the Chinese–Tibetan PCART...

Humla Tibetan, also known as Humla Bhotiya, and Humli Tamang, is the Sino-Tibetan language of the Tibetan people of Humla district in Nepal (ISO 639-3:...

Anti-Tibetan sentiment is hostility, discrimination or racism against Tibetans or anything related to Tibetan culture in general. Anti-Tibetan sentiment...

Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after Shangri-La...

/ˈkætə/ or khatag is a traditional ceremonial scarf in Tibetan. It is widely used by the Tibetan, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Ladakhi, Mongolian, Buryat, and...

consider to be one of several protectors of the Gelug school, the school of Tibetan Buddhism to which the Dalai Lamas belong. Dorje Shugden has become the...

the Tibetan plateau. Buildings are generally made from locally available construction materials, and are often embellished with symbols of Tibetan Buddhism...

The Tibetan Communist Party was a small communist party in Tibet which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal...

people: Gar Tongtsen Yülsung (590–667), Tibetan Empire general and Great Minister Gar Tsenye Dompu (died 685), Tibetan Empire general, eldest son of Gar Tongtsen...

The Association of Tibetan Journalists is a Tibetan organization in exile, that was founded in 1997 in Dharamsala, India. The organization's stated mission...

been at least five distinct waves of human migration into Bhutan. Before Tibetans settled in Bhutan, the area was populated by aboriginal people referred...

isolated from the world. Ancient Tibetan scriptures mention Nghe-Beyul Khembalung, one of seven utopian beyuls which Tibetan Buddhists believe were established...

traditional Chinese: 搖滾藏獒; pinyin: Yáogǔn Zàng'áo, literally Rock and Roll Tibetan Mastiff) is a 2016 animated comedy film directed by Ash Brannon and written...

Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and patron of the Vajrayana Foundation Alak Jigme Thinley Lhundup Rinpoche (1938–2012), Tibetan Tulku, former speaker...

Jetsun Dechen Wangmo (Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་མོ, Wylie: bde chen dbang mo, c.1925 - 2011) was a Tibetan Buddhist. Wangmo was the daughter of a noble family...

and severe beatings. Hundreds of Tibetans have been killed in crackdowns on dissent, and thousands of other Tibetans are arbitrarily arrested and detained...

languages, forming the primary Sino-Tibetan family. However, the precise placement of Sinitic within Sino-Tibetan is a matter of debate. Reconstructing...

Lama (Tibetan: བླ་མ་, Wylie: bla-ma) is a title bestowed to a realized practitioner of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. Not all monks are lamas, while nuns...

The Sakya (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་, Wylie: sa skya, 'pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu...

garrisons even after communication had been cut off from Chang'an by the Tibetan Empire. The last five years of the protectorate are regarded as an uncertain...

Shambala or Shamballa (Tibetan: བདེ་འབྱུང, Wylie: Bde'byung; Chinese: 香巴拉; pinyin: Xiāngbālā), is a spiritual kingdom in Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Shambhala...

commonly of non-Tibetan ethnic heritage, but also expatriate Tibetans born in the West or Westerners with heritage from the Tibetan cultural sphere (e...

In traditions of mysticism and the paranormal inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, a tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human shape...

Khalong Tibetan (or Khalung; also known as Rdo or Rdoskad) is a Tibetic language of Sichuan, China, once considered a dialect of Khams. It is spoken in...

karyotypes in Rheum (Polygonaceae), a species-rich genus in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions". Caryologia Firenze. 63 (1): 87. doi:10.1080/00087114...

Jetsun Milarepa (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ་, Wylie: rje btsun mi la ras pa, 1028/40–1111/23) was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer...

Qinghai-Gansu border region. Over the centuries, they mixed with neighboring Tibetans, Hui, Han Chinese and Dongxiangs, developing the distinctive modern Salar...

Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar (Tibetan: ལྷ་རྒྱ་རི་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་སྒྲོལ་དཀར, born on 13 April 1986 in Dharamsala) is a Tibetan politician, Member of Parliament and...

In Tibet, decrees have mandated the destruction of Tibetan Buddhist monastic centers, denied Tibetans' access to their cultural heritage, and led to ongoing...

Tibetan Sign Language is the recently established deaf sign language of Tibet. Tibetan Sign is the first recognized sign language for a minority in China...

Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 黃南藏族自治州; pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan:...

"Little Lhasa" as the Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered there, and the region has a significant population of Tibetans. McLeod Ganj was named...

In Tibet, the Tibetan calendar lags approximately four to six weeks behind the solar calendar. For example, the Tibetan First Month usually falls in February...

Government of China. It was signed by plenipotentiaries of the CPG and the Tibetan Government (Ganden Phodrang) on 23 May 1951, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing. The...

widely-separated language groups spoken in the Northern Hemisphere: Sino-Tibetan languages, Yeniseian languages and Burushaski in Asia; Na-Dené languages...

A tulku (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wylie: sprul sku, ZWPY: Zhügu, also tülku, trulku) is an individual recognized as the reincarnation of a previous spiritual...

Contemporary Tibetan art refers to the art of modern Tibet, or Tibet after 1950. It also refer to art by the Tibetan diaspora, which is explicitly political...

Wangchuk (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province...

David Francis Germano is an American Tibetologist and professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he has dual...

pre-dating Tibetan Buddhism. The Zhangzhung culture is associated with the Bon religion, which has influenced the philosophies and practices of Tibetan Buddhism...

Thukpa (Tibetan: ཐུག་པ; IPA: /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.pə˥˥/ ) is a Tibetan and Nepalese noodle soup, which originated in the eastern part of Tibet. Amdo thukpa, especially...

Darma U Dum Tsen (Tibetan: དར་མ་འུ་དུམ་བཙན, Wylie: dar ma 'u dum btsan), better known as Langdarma (Tibetan: གླང་དར་མ།, Wylie: glang dar ma, THL: Lang...

tea, also known as bho jha or po cha (Tibetan: བོད་ཇ་, Wylie: bod ja, THL: bö ja, "Tibetan tea"), cha süma (Tibetan: ཇ་སྲུབ་མ་, Wylie: ja srub ma, THL:...

The Tibetan Delek Hospital is a hospital founded in 1971 by members of the Tibetan diaspora and their supporters and located in Dharamshala in Northern...

Dawa (Tibetan: ཟླ་བ, Wylie: zla wa; also written Tibetan: ཟླ་བ, Wylie: zla ba) is a Tibetan and Sherpa given name. The word Dawa means means "moon" or...

The Tibetan dwarf hamster (Urocricetus alticola) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found not only in Tibet and China, but also in...

critics and human rights organizations argue have systematically undermined Tibetan religious, linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identity. These measures have...

monastery of the Sakya, one of the four great traditions of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism. Sakya (Tibetan: sa skya, grey or whitish soil) is named after a patch...

Tenzin (Standard Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན) is a Tibetan given name, meaning "the holder of Buddha Dharma". Tenzin can alternatively be spelled as Tenzing and...

The Dunga Dictionary of Tibetan Studies (Chinese: 东噶藏学大辞典 Tibetan: དུང་དཀར་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ, Wylie: dung dkar tshig mdzod chen mo) is a comprehensive reference...

spiritual name: Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal; Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Thub Bstan Rgya Mtsho) (12 February 1876 – 17...

The history of Tibetan association football started when Tibetans for the first time watched British and Indian playing football at the British trade agency...

The Tibetan People's Republic or the Chinese Soviet Central Tibetan Autonomous Government (Chinese: 中華蘇維埃中央博巴自治政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá sūwéi'āi zhōngyāng...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

the Chitue (Members) of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile were held between October 18, 2015 and March 20, 2016. Tibetans in exile voted for the fourth...

Samye Monastery (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་, Wylie: bsam yas, Chinese: 桑耶寺), full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug...

monk and scholar Zanabazar based on the Tibetan alphabet to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan language and Sanskrit as a geometric typeface...

implement (bowl) in both Buddhism Tantra and Tibetan Buddhist Tantra (Vajrayana). Especially in Tibetan Buddhism, kapalas are often carved or elaborately...

practices, which are based on Indian Buddhist Tantras. They include Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon Buddhism and Nepalese...

by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Indian, Tibetan and Bhutanese refugees account for a large majority of Nepal’s refugee...

The Old Tibetan Chronicle is a collection of narrative accounts and songs relating to Tibet's Yarlung dynasty and the Tibetan Empire. The three manuscripts...

Abbasid–Tibetan warfare occurred during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun against the forces of the Tibetan Empire and its vassals, before and...

day, Tibetan activist Lobsang Palden (aka Lobga Rangzen) set himself on fire near the United Nations Headquarters in New York while holding a Tibetan national...

Kagyu (Tibetan: ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད, Wylie: phag mo gru pa bka' brgyud) or Phagdru Kagyu (ཕག་གྲུ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད) is a subschool of the Tibetan Kagyu school...

Karma Samdrup (Chinese: 嘎玛桑珠; Tibetan: ཀརྨ་བསམ་གྲུབ། born May 8, 1968) in Gonjo (Chin: Gongjue) county, Chamdo Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region...

Tsampa or tsamba (Tibetan: རྩམ་པ་, Wylie: rtsam pa; Chinese: 糌粑; pinyin: zānbā) is a Tibetan and Himalayan staple foodstuff; it is also prominent in parts...

Cultural Revolution to Tibet. In November 1966, the Red Guards—mainly Tibetans from certain universities in Beijing—arrived in Tibet. Often combining...

The Jiuzhaigou valley is part of the Min Mountains on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and stretches over 72,000 hectares (180,000 acres). It has an altitude...

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is a Tibetan non-governmental nonprofit human rights organization. The TCHRD investigates and...

formerly known as Dzorgaic) is a group of related languages within the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are spoken mainly in Southwest China, including Sichuan...

in Tibet, learning the Tibetan language and Tibetan Buddhist doctrine before writing an account of his travels and of Tibetan Buddhism. He also wrote...

it into contact with the rising Tibetan Empire. When Emperor Taizong of Tang refused a marriage alliance, the Tibetan emperor Songtsen Gampo sent an army...

classical name in Tibetan: ལ་དྭགས, Wylie: La dwags, THL: la dak means the "land of high passes". Ladak is its pronunciation in several Tibetan dialects. The...

Sand mandala (Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།, Wylie: dkyil 'khor, THL kyinkhor; Chinese: 沙壇城/壇城沙畫) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction...

The Era of Fragmentation (Tibetan: སིལ་བའི་དུས།) was an era of disunity in Tibetan history lasting from the death of the Tibetan Empire's last king, Langdarma...

(Tibetan: ཕྱུ་པ་, Wylie: phyu pa, THL: Chuwa), also called a chhupa, is a warm ankle-length unisex robe worn in Tibet and by members of the Tibetan diaspora...

focuses his research primarily on the Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan Buddhism and the relations of Tibet to Mongolia...

Sino-Tibetan or Chinese-Tibetan can refer to: Sino-Tibetan languages, a major language family of East and Southeast Asia, and of northern and northeastern...

Dongwang Tibetan is a Tibetic language of Yunnan, China, once considered a dialect of Khams. It is spoken in the eastern part of Shangri-La County, along...

A Tibetan Love Song (Chinese: 康定情歌; pinyin: Kāngdìng Qínggē; lit. 'Love Song of Kangding') is a 2010 Chinese romance film starring Alec Su, Ju Wenpei...

reaches awakening first, and then helps others to reach that goal A common Tibetan Buddhist distinction is that between relative and absolute (or ultimate)...

77%, Lahu and Va - 9.76%) Qinghai: Haidong (Han - 56.33%, Hui - 20.38%, Tibetan - 9.2%, Tu - 8.06%) List of prefecture-level divisions of China Tusi Native...

Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché (Tibetan: ཤར་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་འཇམ་དཔལ་བློ་གྲོས།, Wylie: shar mkhan sprul 'jam dpal blo gros) (born 1968) is a Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Master...

was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She wrote the screenplays for the films The Black...

Tapey (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་བཀྲ་ཤིས།) was a young Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery. On February 27, 2009, he attempted self-immolation in a public marketplace...

Dzongkha Bumthang Kurtöp Dzala Khampa Tibetan Lakha Nyen 'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng...

Tenpa Yarphel (Tibetan: བསྟན་པ་ཡར་འཕེལ, Wylie: bstan-pa yar-vphel) is a Tibetan monk and politician. He is a member of the 16th Tibetan parliament-in-exile...

The Tibetan Settlement Office (T.S.O.) (formerly "Tibetan Welfare Office") Tibetan: ང་ཚོའི་སྐོར།, Wylie: nga tsho'i skor is acting within the Tibetan Ministry...

Tashi Tsering (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་, Wylie: bKra-shis Tse-ring) also called Tashi Tsering Josayma; born in 1960, is a Tibetan tibetologist, historian...

tantric movement that affected all its religions in the Middle Ages. In Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, the correlation of the subtle body to the physical body is viewed...

Lhakpa Tsamchoe (born 1972) is a Tibetan actress from India. She is the first Tibetan woman ever to break into mainstream film; most famous for starring...

as Kundalini, while in Buddhist texts she is called Candali or Tummo (Tibetan: gtum mo, "fierce one"). The chakra relates to subtle body, wherein it...

think about Tibetan holy madman phenomenon." Dowman's understanding of the holymadmen is akin to the Tibetan interpretations, seeing the Tibetan holy madmen...

the Dalai Lama, Mandakini started running classes in Tibetan yoga, while her husband runs a Tibetan Herbal Centre. "Birthday Special: The Mandakini story"...

among Nepali Muslims. Varieties of Tibetan are spoken in and north of the higher Himalaya where standard literary Tibetan is widely understood by those with...

"meadow" (pangma) above a "comb" or a "range" (shisha or chisa) in the local Tibetan language, thereby signifying the "crest above the grassy plains". On the...

British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh...

of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, China. The solar park's development began in 2011 on the Tibetan Plateau, which...

the north, northwest and east of India: Khotanese, Chinese, Sogdian and Tibetan. This translation work took place over the course of the 5th through 10th...

Native to China Ethnicity Yi Native speakers 50 (2014) Language family Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Mango Language codes ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog...

(born 1984), Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity Jamyang Donyo Gyaltsen (1310–1344), ruler of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen...

Tibet (Ngari Khorsum) but was killed in battle of To-yo during the Dogra-Tibetan war. Due to his role in the conquests in the Himalaya Mountains Zorawar...

Karma in Tibetan Buddhism is one of the central issues addressed in Eastern philosophy, and an important part of its general practice. Karma is the causality...

particularly focused on the Lhasa dialect of Tibetan. He published both a grammar and a dictionary of Lhasa Tibetan. He was employed at the Tokyo University...

woodblock-printed items. Composed in a range of languages including Chinese, Tibetan and others, these manuscripts were discovered in 1900 at the Mogao Caves...

The Gankyil (Tibetan: དགའ་འཁྱིལ།, Lhasa [kã˥ kʲʰiː˥]) or "wheel of joy" (Sanskrit: ānanda-cakra) is a symbol and ritual tool used in Tibetan and East Asian...

November 2018, Dharamshala, India, Standard Tibetan: དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, romanized: dpal ldan rgya mtsho) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Arrested for protesting...

1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir". From 1970, Robbins lived in La...

The Tibetan invasion of Tuyuhun was a military campaign conducted by the Tibetan Empire in the 660s, leading to the destruction of the Tuyuhun Kingdom...

Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS) ISSN 1550-6363 is a freely available online, peer-reviewed English language academic journal focusing on Tibetan studies...

Na-Dene with Sino–Tibetan and Yeniseian with Burushaski (Karasuk hypothesis). George van Driem does not believe that Sino–Tibetan (which he calls "Trans–Himalayan")...

Sino-Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian is a proposed language family suggested by Laurent Sagart in 1990. Using reconstructions of Old Chinese...

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Hor Lhamo (late 19th – early 20th century) was a Tibetan woman from Kham, on Tibetan territory. She rebelled against local lords and collaborating officials...

Princess Wencheng (Chinese: 文成公主; pinyin: Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ; Tibetan: མུན་ཆང་ཀོང་ཅོ, Wylie: mun chang kong co) was a princess and member of a minor branch...

The Snow Lion (sometimes spelled snowlion; Tibetan: གངས་སེང་གེ་, Wylie: gangs seng ge; Chinese: 雪獅) is a celestial animal of Tibet. It is the emblem of...

Religion in Tibet, China (estimates as of 2012) Tibetan Buddhism (78.5%) Bon (12.5%) Chinese folk religion and others (8.58%) Islam (0.40%) Christianity...

information about the Tibetan antelope population. Two years later, FON held a series of conferences about the protection of the Tibetan antelope in conjunction...

(Tibetan: ལྷ་བཟང་ཚེ་རིང, Wylie: lha bzang tshe ring; 1952 – 11 June 2026) was a Tibetan poet, writer and activist. He was President of the Tibetan Youth...

annexing the western Kham region that was then under Tibetan control. Kham was entirely populated by Tibetan people called Khampas. The then-independent Tibet...

/ˌʌvəloʊkɪˈteɪʃvərə/), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a Bodhisattva associated with Great Compassion (mahākaruṇā). Avalokiteśvara...

Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州; Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ; Tibetan:...

Rinpoche (Tibetan: བླ་མ་ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་ཐར་ཕྱིན་, Wylie: bla ma tshe sgrub thar phyin, THL: lama tsédrup tarchin) (1936–July 22, 2013) was a Tibetan Dzogchen...

Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (Tibetan: ང་ཕོད་ངག་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་, Wylie: Nga phod Ngag dbang 'jigs med, ZWPY: Ngapo Ngawang Jigmê, Lhasa dialect: [ŋɑ̀pø̂ː ŋɑ̀wɑŋ...

(IAST; Jp. Binayaka, 毘那夜迦), Vighnāntaka, or Gaṇapati (Jp: Ganabachi, 誐那鉢底; Tibetan: tshogs bdag) is a Buddhist deity venerated in various traditions of Mahayana...

Yarlung dynasty (Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་གདོད་མའི་མངའ་མཛད།) was a Tibetan dynasty that existed from 127 BCE to 842 CE according to traditional Tibetan historiography...

what happened to Tibetan rebels on 1 November 1728 during his father, the Yongzheng Emperor's reign. Six Tibetan rebel leaders plus Tibetan rebel leader Blo-bzan-bkra-sis...

Tashi delek (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས, Wylie: bkra shis bde legs, Tibetan pronunciation: [tʂáɕi tèle]) is a Tibetan expression used to greet, congratulate...

The Nechung Oracle (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ཏ་བླ་མ, Wylie: gnas chung ta bla ma) is the personal oracle of the Dalai Lama since the second Dalai Lama. The medium...

early as 656 the Tibetan Empire attacked the Patola Shahis southwest of the Tang protectorate. In the late 600s CE, the rising Tibetan Empire wrestled...

Cupressus gigantea, the Tibetan cypress, is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae native to southeastern Tibet (Xizang). It has sometimes been...

human, dog, elephant, and certain wild animals as it was seen as unclean. Tibetan Buddhism has long accepted that the practical difficulties in obtaining...

The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the namtar of Orgyan Chokyi, a Tibetan Buddhist nun who lived in Dolpo, a region in northwestern Nepal, from 1675 until 1729...

commented on by various Indian and Tibetan scholars. His texts remain part of studies in the monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Little is known for certain...

The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Wylie: tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho) (1 March 1683 – after 1706) was recognized as the...

Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་, Wylie: a mdo; Chinese: 安多; pinyin: Ānduō), also known as Domey (Tibetan: མདོ་སྨད་), is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions...

The Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center (Chinese: 蒙藏文化中心; pinyin: Měng Zàng Wénhuà Zhōngxīn) is a cultural center in Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan...

made important contributions to historical Chinese phonology and Sino-Tibetan linguistics. His Chinese name was Ximen Huade (西門華德, Xīmén Huádé). Higher...

Tibetan, and Chinese. Most Indian sources were composed in Sanskrit, but numerous tantric works were also composed in other languages like Tibetan and...

social groups in Tibet prior to 1959, namely ordinary laypeople (mi ser in Tibetan), lay nobility (sger pa), and monks. The ordinary layperson could be further...

Aku Pema (Tibetan: ཨ་ཁུ་པདྨ་, Wylie: a khu pad ma; Amdo Tibetan [akʰɯ panma]) is a Tibetan song, written by the Tibetan singer Palgon (Wylie: dpal mgon...

the northwestern part of Sichuan (Szechwan) on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. The modern Qiang refer to themselves as Rma (/ɹmæː/ or /ɹmɛː/...

from Elaeocarpus angustifolius Various types of malas (Tibetan: trengwa) are used in Tibetan Buddhism, including "Bodhi seed" (commonly made from seeds...

Modern Tibetan Studies Program, where he was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies and Senior Research Scholar in modern Tibetan history...

According to Tibetan chronicles, Monyul was ruled by Gongkar Gyal, descendant of an exiled Tibetan ruler named Lhase Tsangma, the brother of Tibetan king Ralpacan...

Tawang (Tibetan: རྟ་དབང་, Wylie: Rta-dbang) is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It lies...

reincarnation of one of the great Tibetan spiritual leaders. He usually lives in Lijiang but rarely returns to a Tibetan temple in Yongning for important...

attained enlightenment in her lifetime and is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism. Yeshe Tsogyal is the highest woman in the Nyingma Vajrayana lineage...

In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajravārāhī ("The Indestructible Sow", Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ་, Wylie: rdo rje phag mo Dorje Pakmo) is considered a female buddha...

Matthew T. Kapstein is a scholar of Tibetan religions, Buddhism, and the cultural effects of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He is Numata Visiting Professor...

The Central Tibetan School Administration is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Education of the government of India. The organisation is...

Mentsikhang (门孜康, Tibetan: སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་, Wylie transcription: sman rtsis khang, THL: men tsi khang), translated as Tibetan Medical Calendar College or...

page is a list of organisations of Tibetans in exile. Most of the organisations listed are groups of ethnic Tibetans outside of Tibet and based in Dharamsala...

continent's mountainous interior, including the Pamirs, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, the Hindu Kush, the Tian Shan, the country of Nepal, and the Altai...

dark soft down. In 1994, there were more than 7 million Tibetan Plateau and Valley goats in Tibetan Plateau regions of People's Republic of China. Five million...

1 December 2025 and has served as the former Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police . "ITBP chief Praveen Kumar gets additional charge of BSF...

The term Tibetan Empire most commonly refers to the first major Tibetan state, ruled by the Yarlung dynasty. Tibetan Empire may also refer to: Phagmodrupa...

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tashi Paljor (Tibetan: དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་, Wylie: dil mgo mkhyen brtse) (c. 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a Vajrayana master...

Tingmo (Standard Tibetan: ཀྲིན་མོག) is a steamed bread in Tibetan cuisine. It is sometimes described as a steamed bun that is similar to Chinese flower...

Stupa (Nepali: बौद्ध; Newari: खास्ति चैत्य), Boudhanath Stupa (Standard Tibetan: བྱ་རུང་ཁ་ཤོར།, Wylie: bya rung ka shor), also known as Khasti Chaitya...

known as Tamu Kyi (तमु क्यी, tamu kyī; Tibetan: རྟམུ་སྐད་) or Tamu Bhāṣā (तमु भाषा, tamu bhāṣā), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Gurung people...

groups: Border Guarding Forces (Assam Rifles, Border Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and Sashastra Seema Bal), Forces for Internal Security (Central...

Chushi Gangdruk (Tibetan: ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་, Wylie: Chu bzhi sgang drug, lit. 'Four Rivers, Six Ranges') was a Tibetan guerrilla force formed in 1958 to...

Thokcha (Tibetan: ཐོག་ལྕགས, Wylie: thog lcags; also alternatively Tibetan: གནམ་ལྕགས, Wylie: gnam lcags) are Tibetan amulets which are said to have fallen...

is also found in other traditions, including the Kalachakra-Tantra of Tibetan Buddhism and Sikh texts. The name Kalki is derived from the Sanskrit word...

World Championships. She serves as an Assistant sub-inspector in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Hooda was suspended by the International Testing Agency...

Jowo is a town in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China. v t e...

folk etymology) are people of Tibetan origin who migrated to Bhutan as early as the 9th century. The Ngalop introduced Tibetan culture and Buddhism to Bhutan...

Tibetan writer and a translator from Tibetan to English. Nyima Tsering (1963–10 February 2011) graduated from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan...

The Tibetan Nuns Project is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to support Buddhist female monastics in India from a variety of Tibetan Buddhist...

the 14th Dalai Lama's TCV (Tibetan Children's Village), The Tibetan Children's Home was established in Dhondupling Tibetan Colony, Clement Town, Dehra...

(shaman), buk, puk (to divine), and Tibetan aba (pronounced ba, sorcerer). Coblin (1986:107) puts forward a Sino-Tibetan root *mjaɣ "magician; sorcerer" for...

Yonten Gyatso, (Tibetan: ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: yon tan rgya mtsho) (1589–1617), was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Tümed on the 30th day of the 12th month...

'Number-10-lifetime Great Scholar the Treasure'), of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. According to Tibetan Buddhism, Panchen Lamas are living emanations of Buddha...

Karmamudrā (Sanskrit; "action seal," Tibetan: las-kyi phyag-rgya; commonly misspelled as: kāmamudrā or "desire seal") is a Vajrayana Buddhist technique...

The three poisons (Sanskrit: triviṣa; Tibetan: dug gsum) in the Mahayana tradition or the three unwholesome roots (Sanskrit: akuśala-mūla; Pāli: akusala-mūla)...

Mêdog (Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 墨脱县), formerly known as Pemako (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་, Wylie: pad ma bkod, THL: Pémakö, ZWPY: Bämagö lit. "Lotus Array")...

contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...

Mahasiddha (Sanskrit: mahāsiddha "great adept; Tibetan: གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: grub thob chen po, THL: druptop chenpo) is a term for someone who embodies...

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Mongolian: Janggiy-a qutuγ-tu, Khalkha Mongolian: Жанжаа хутагт Janjaa Khutagt; Tibetan: ལྕང་སྐྱ་ཧོ་ཐོག་ཐུ།, lcang-skya ho-thog-thu; Chinese: 章嘉呼圖克圖, Zhāngjiā...

in 1959, and in their language and dress these Tibetan Muslims are indistinguishable from their Tibetan Buddhist counterparts. Today, many are engaged...

The Pumi (also Primi or Premi) people (Tibetan: བོད་མི་, Wylie: bod mi, Chinese: 普米族; pinyin: Pǔmǐzú, autonym: /pʰʐə̃˥.mi˥/) are an ethnic group. They...

young Tibetans – the Four Rugby Boys – into the vanguard of "modernisers" through the medium of an English public school education. Lungshar, a Tibetan high...

wrathful deities or fierce deities are the fierce, wrathful or forceful (Tibetan: trowo, Sanskrit: krodha) forms (or "aspects", "manifestations") of enlightened...

Revolution in Sichuan. Zhao Erfeng crushed the Tibetan Lamas and their monasteries in the 1905 Tibetan Rebellion in Yunnan and Sichuan, he then crushed...

The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (commonly abbreviated STEDT) was a linguistics research project hosted at the University of California...

language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. About 245,000 speakers...

Balti (Perso-Arabic script: بلتی, Tibetan: སྦལ་ཏི།, Wylie: sbal ti) is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan...

pesticide and herbicide use. Agriculture in the Tibetan Plateau (where many "Himalayan" or "Tibetan"-branded berries supposedly originate) conventionally...

20th century's leading scholars of Tibet. He taught as a professor of Tibetan Studies at the University of Washington and served as the first chair of...

Laphing (Tibetan: ལ་ཕིང) is a spicy cold plain flour noodle dish in Tibetan cuisine basically garnished with tsulazi (chilli oil), soy sauce, vinegar,...

Gurung (exonym; Nepali: गुरुङ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung: རྟམུ) are a Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal...

incubation partner to the Tibetan Entrepreneurship Development initiative, conducting three annual incubation cycles supporting Tibetan entrepreneurs living...

fundamental elements (dhātu) of the human body. Meanwhile, in Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhism, dakini (or wisdom dakini) can refer to both what can be best...

corresponded to Ü-Tsang and western Kham, would "remain in the hands of the Tibetan Government at Lhasa under Chinese suzerainty", but China would not interfere...

relationship between imperial China and the Tibetan Empire developed. During this period Chinese and Tibetan forces had many battles since both parties...

Pemba (5 June 1931 – 26 November 2011) MBBS (London) FRCS was the first Tibetan to become a doctor in western medicine, and to become a Fellow of the Royal...

Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or THL Phonetic Transcription for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language. It was created...

led to the establishment of Buddhist Monasteries all along Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. Vajrayana Buddhism is followed almost all along the Himalayas...

injury. Tibetans also boycotted Muslim owned businesses. In August 2008, the main mosque in Lhasa was burned down by Tibetans during the 2008 Tibetan unrest...

article contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tibetan characters. The...

Tsering Dhondup (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་དོན་གྲུབ; 1960 – 7 September 2025), also known as Tsering Dhundup Yangdhar, was a Tibetan politician who was the Minister...

Penpa Tsering (Tibetan: སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་།, Wylie: spen pa tshe ring) is a Tibetan politician based in India. He is the second democratically elected Sikyong...

Panchen Lama in 1987 as the Serta Larung Five Science Buddhist Academy (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།, ZWPY: Serta Larung Ngarig Nangdän Lobling;...

(SFF) is a paramilitary Indian special forces unit composed primarily of Tibetan refugees and Gurkhas in India. It was established after the Sino-Indian...

Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng;) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings)...

scholar of Tibetan linguistics at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Born in Chiba, she is the daughter of the equally noted Tibetan linguist Michiyo...

Elizabeth Napper is the author of Dependent-Arising and Emptiness, A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Madhyamika Philosophy, Emphasizing the Compatibility...

populated regions of India. The Bhoti-speaking local population follows Tibetan Buddhism. Traditionally, agriculture was for subsistence, but has shifted...

Jizō; Korean: 지장 (地藏); romaja: Jijang; Vietnamese: Địa Tạng (地藏), Standard Tibetan: ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva primarily revered...

which means "beyond time" or death. Tibetan: ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།, THL: nak po chen po means "Great Black One". Tibetan: མགོན་པོ།, THL: gön po "Protector" is...

America, subalpine heath in New Guinea and East Africa, steppes of the Tibetan plateaus, and other similar subalpine habitats. Drier subtropical montane...

balloon pilot and competitor. She is also a teacher and expert on The Five Tibetans, a yoga methodology originally described by Peter Kelder in his book "The...

The Tibetan National Football Association (TNFA) was founded in 2001, soon after the authorization was delivered by the Kashag (the Tibet Cabinet), and...

(Classical Tibetan: བོད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱལ་གླུ།, Wylie: bod rgyal khab kyi rgyal glu), commonly referred to as "Gyallu", is a Tibetan patriotic song...

rebellion and participated in expeditions against the Uyghur Khaganate and Tibetan Empire. He was regarded as one of the most powerful Tang generals before...

central teaching of Tibetan Buddhism: it is one of the "Four Thoughts," which turn the mind towards spiritual practice. One set of Tibetan Buddhist contemplations...

than theocracies. The Central Tibetan Administration, colloquially known as the Tibetan government in exile, is a Tibetan exile organization with a state-like...