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88Why do Tibetan Singing Bowls Sing and Make Water Droplets Dance
Tibetan Singing Bowls when filled with water and rubbed or hit with a leather-wrapped mallet, emit a humming sound and water droplets fly from the surface and appear to dance. Researcher have begun to understand why this occurs and how it relates to other properties fluids and other processes such as fuel injection in cars. The research may have application in other processes to create droplets.
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87Top 12 Inspirational Films of COMEDY & DRAMA
My top 12 personal Inspirational films of comedy and drama. I didn't want to make a list that any could already predict on their own. I wanted to create a list of inspirational films that had commercial success and others that were under the radar but were just as good.
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82What 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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80The Dalai Lama's Potala Palace
In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, I met up with my tour guide Gyantzing and the driver a little early, like around 9:15, and we headed off to the Potala! Oh, where to begin. The Dalai Lama’s palace, which he hasn’t lived in since 1959 due to...
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82The Town of Gyantse, Tibet
I had left Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, with my tour guide and driver. When we arrived in the village of Gyantse, I gazed at a fascinating fortress-monastery perched on a mountain. It looks impossible to...
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82TIBET- The Land of Snows and Sorrow
. Tibet - mysterious land that I always wished to visit - because of it`s breathtaking nature and beautiful mountains every hiker and nature-lover dreams of , because of my interest in various world religions and Buddhism is certainly worth of...
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81Air 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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81The 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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81Buddhist Art: Tibetan Thangka Painting
Thangka (also spelled Tangka) painting is a centuries-old Tibetan tradition. The Tibetan word “tangka” means “silk, satin or cloth painting scroll”.
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80Tenzin 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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