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Geography of Tibet: Know as the "Roof of the world", Qingahi-Tibet Plateau is the highest plateau in the world. Tibet is just in the south of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, at a geological location within 26°50”-36° 53” degrees north latitude and 78° 25” -99° 06” degrees east longitude. Covering an area of over 1.2million square kilometres, the autonomous region takes up about one-eighth of China. To the north, it neighbours Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Qingahi Province; on the east and southeast, it is adjacent to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces; on the south and west it borders Myanmar, India, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal, as well as Kashimir on a border line of 4, 000 kilometres stretching from east to west. More knowledge of Tibet Geography-->

History of Tibet: Long, long ago, a monkey with magic powers was sent by the goddess of Mercy to practice meditation in what it is Tibet today. The monkey made great headway in Buddhist mediation before a nearby Raksasi(femal demon) approached him and said admiringly:"Let's marry!". They married, and gave birth to six monkeys. All these small monkeys lived separately in the forest. Three years later, when their parents visited them one by one, they had more than 500 children and grandchildren who had finished all the fruit available in the forest. The father monkey returned to the Heavenly kingdom and brought back to earth Qingke Barley, wheat, beans, buckwheat and other kinds of cereals for cultivation. With more than enough food, all the monkeys lost their and tails. Gradually, they learned to speak, and finally became man...More

Cities of Tibet: Tibet Autonomous Region has formed four tourism regions: Lhasa, Western Tibet(Ngari), Southwestern Tibet(Shigatse) and Southern Tibet(Nyingchi and Chamdo). With Lhasa as the center, Shigatse and Shannan(Tsedang) as the assistant regions, Tibet has developed a tourism layout readiating Nagqu, Ngari, Nyingchi and chamdo. Among the four regions, Lhas features tourist spots like Lhasa city, Yangpacham, Gyangze, Tsedang, Shigatse, Yamdrok Lake, and other places of rich cultural and natural scenery. The western Tibet Region mainly refers to Ngari, where the tour of the sacred Mountain and lake is very attractive. IN southwestern Tibet, Mt. Everest is the main attraction. The region of south Tibet focusedon Nyingchi where ecological tours with beautiful landscape are worthwhile...More

Rivers and Lakes in Tibet: There are hundreds of lakes, rivers, springs, waterfalls, etc. The most attractive places are Yarlung River, Lhasa River, Namtso Lake, Yamdrok Lake, Manasarovar Lake, Basum tso Lake Lhamo Latso lake, etc.Also springs are everywhere in Tibet, one of the most famous is Yampachain geothermal spring, lies on the southern slope of the Nyainqentanglha Mountains some 89 Kilometres to the northwest of Lhasa, Dezhong hot spring in Maizhokunggar county, Oiga of Sangri and Zegu Lake of Cuomai... More

Tibetan Buddhism: Tibet is mysterious of the high plateau with special geography and various kinds of natural sceneries, but also of the long-history Tibetan buddhism. Buddhism entered Tibet in the 7th century from China's central plain, India and Nepal. Since then, it had been engaged in prolonged and intense fight with the local religion named Bon religion, which formerly ruled Tibet. For hundreds of years, in its self-development under the need to suit the local environment and strive for more followers, Buddhism absorbed a great deal of contents and forms of the Bon Religion. Also affected by multiple cultural factors of surrounding areas, teh buddhism in Tibet got its own characteristics. It developed voluminous Tibetan scriptures, detailed scripture explanation and doctrine including both exotericism and esotericim while focusing on the latter and formed various sects, complete organizational structure, strict rules of learning scripture adn practicing and unique reincarnation system of living Buddha. Therefore, it became a new branch in Buddhism that is different from Han Buddhism (popular in mainland of China), India Buddhism and others, it is just called Tibetan Buddhism or Lamaism...More