Tibetan Plateau

Tibetans, Andeans and Ethiopians are three small tribes who live in high elevations and conditions that, for lowlanders, would be considered hazardous and unsafe; but for them, it is an everyday life struggle. Just like those who live in remote, extreme climates, like the Inuits, these tribes have changed their whole genetic make-up in order to survive these conditions peacefully. Communities living in high altitudes and climates could be prime examples of how to survive in the harshest…

It covers parts of north and north-west China, and the south of Mongolia. the Gobi Desert is a rain shadow desert which is by the Tibetan Plateau blocking precipitation from the Indian Ocean reaching the Gobi area. This desert is over 1,600 km from southwest to northeast and is 800 km from north to south. This desert is the widest in the west. The Gobi is a cold desert with frost and sometimes…

Most people would want to go to Europe or to Africa; however, the true beauty in the world is China. In this special edition on China, you would see the perspective on China in the eyes of a trader. As a girl, I endured many endless journeys of trading knowledge and messages to scholars and government officials, but one of my most memorable journeys was to China. China was known as a beautiful and majestic empire, ranging from exotic flowers to great emperors.The Chinese invented many…

The Tibetan culture, tradition, customs, religion and language differs from Chinese, which indicates that Tibet and China are different. During the 600s the king of Yarlung, unified all the states and made Tibet an independent nation. The early Tibetan lifestyle was either nomadic or sedentary, which after a few decades coalesced. It was during the 630s when the Chinese Tang dynasty had a conflict with Tibet in the northeastern plateau. The Yarlung king who is known as the building the Tibetan…

Pluralism as a political philosophy is the affirmation and recognition of diversity within a political body, which permits the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles. Political pluralism is a participatory type of government in which the politics of the country are defined by wants and needs of many. Political institutional pluralism is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. China as a gigantic united multi-national state, China is composed…

I: Status of Tibet in the past or Historical Perspective Tibet is the highest plateau in the world. It is popularly known as ‘The Roof of the World’. It has been an independent state for centuries. Tibetans are distinct from the Chinese geographically, historically, culturally and ethnically. A long history of rule of its own kings and the rule of Dalai Lamas later (commencing with third Dalai Lama,) made politically supreme by the Mongol King, Altan Khan. He also offered the title “Dalai Lama”…

The area the Himalayas are geographically located within hold the greatest amount of ice outside of the polar region, and within the region, contains the ten largest rivers in Asia, (Wilkes & Eriksson, The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods, 2009). Although the Himalayas contain a great source of ice due to high alpine glaciers, climate change is rapidly changing the topography of this area by accelerating the melting of ice, (Wilkes,…

the political, religious, cultural and .economic center of Tibet, Lhasa played significant role in the development of Tibetan civilization. Like many others, this sacred place, after centuries of rather steady and slow-pace growth, did not escape the destiny to an unprecedented acceleration…

apart from Antarctica. Three species of foxes occurs in the different habitats of Indian sub-continent. Indian fox (Vulpes bengalensis) found throughout the Deccan peninsula, arid and semi-arid bio-geographic region of India, Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata) found in Tibetan plateau of north India and the Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) distributed from hot desert of Rajasthan and Gujarat to cold desert of trans-Himalaya and temperate region of Kashmir. In India there are three sub-species of red fox…

I. Introduction The Tibetan Buddhist culture has been melted into the Tibetan culture, the inheritance of which takes place not just in the temples and among monks, but more importantly in daily lives and celebration ceremonies of the masses. The religious culture has penetrated into the inner heart of every people in China so that it seems to be a part of their inborn nature and people just practice it in their life spontaneously. Why people go to religious rites? No one would ask about it, nor…