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77What Happens When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Dies
A short introduction to the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama and the Gelukpa (also called Dge-lugs-pa, Yellow Hat) branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The article explores the future of religious life in Tibet, in Chinese occupancy.
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91Taking A Weekend Long Vacation in Mcleodganj Near Delhi
It’s a weekend again but time is limited. Today is Friday and you just have three days with you Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Monday, you need to be in the office because if you will not do that,...
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84The Invasion, Occupation and Assimilation of Tibet by Communist China
What China did to Tibet is much, much worse than what Japan did in Nanking, China during WWII. A much larger percentage of the Tibetan population was wiped out per the Chinese invasion, Tibetans were scattered across the globe and, the entire country was lost. Chinese always recall the horrors of what the Japanese did in Nanking but care very little about what Mao did in Tibet.
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77Top 5 Must See Tourist Places in Himachal Pradesh, india
Snow clad peaks of the stately Western Himalayas welcome you to Himachal Pradesh - a land which for the tourists can offer just about everything one can dream of. There are far too many tourist attractions in Himachal Pradesh including many...
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79The Gurdjieff work by a former member
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff is perhaps not a name that is so well known and yet as a mystic and philosopher he had and still has a large following of people interested in learning his system of knowledge. Gurdjieff was born in Armenia in 1866 or...
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80Beginning Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths
I am a person still searching for my sense of the Truth of our Universe. I have been investigating Buddhism, and deeply feel the things that I am reading. I have a regular meditation practice. I wish to share my findings and some of the books I've read with you.
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79Tenzin Choegyal, the Dalai Lama's Brother
I was with a sangha staying in Dharamsala, India, a Tibetan exile community where the Dalai Lama lives. Our group was split into two guesthouses; the one I stayed at belonged to the local maharaja, and the...
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80Why Tibet Should Be Independent And Why This Will Never Happen
The independence movement for Tibet is extremely interesting in that it is one of the very few independence movements which gets a lot of coverage and support in the West. Its not often, for example, that you will see a ‘Free Kurdistan’ bumper...
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75Air Burial customs of Haida tribe and other people of long ago
This hub depicts the various burial customs of people who lived before us: the vikings of Scandinavia, Mongolia, Tibet and Haida Tribe. It is to be noted that most of the ancient ways of burying the dead are full of beliefs and very unsanitary.
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72Although We Never Met, I Love You
Over the course of a lifetime, many of us end up idolizing or at least having a strong attraction to a public figure, artist, musician, athlete, actor, etc… and I am no exception. This Christmas, my niece and nephew gave me the biography of Steve...
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