Word: lhasa
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After my three years of wandering, I finally reached Tibet and hoped that there, at last, I would find the answers to all my unspoken questions. But when I arrived in Lhasa and came face-to-face with the Potala, I stopped dead. I couldn't go in, because I knew that when I came out again there would be nowhere left...
...just at UCLA. At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, dogs have been incorporated into rehabilitation treatments for victims of brain and spinal-cord injuries. At the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Sandra Barker brings her own Lhasa apso to relax shock-therapy patients who are visibly trembling before treatment. In Texas, dogs are used to motivate children recovering in burn units and to calm residents in Alzheimer's wards...
Hong Kong is old hat, Shanghai is oversold and even Lhasa is getting pass?. But Beijing? This formerly stodgy, sprawling, communist capital is the new thing. There is a rave on the Great Wall every summer, and Starbucks opened in the Forbidden City last October. But how do you separate the merely new from the truly hip? Here's our guide...
...smallest boy onto their shoulders to wiggle through an open window and unlock the door from the inside. Senior monks, too, have returned to their retreats, spending days, months and years in dark solitude, sustained only by food slipped into their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where you can visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists don't get to see the Karmapa's old bedroom. Tsurphu hasn't become a museum: it is still a working monastery. We have arrived during a brief break in afternoon prayers and are able to walk inside...
...sensitive region on a Chinese visa application will mean instant rejection. Also, Tibet can only be entered from Nepal (by road) or from Golmud (road) and Chengdu (air). In addition, all visitors must be registered as part of an organized tour and take official guides almost anywhere outside Lhasa. A package is the simplest way to handle the bureaucracy, but far cheaper is a three-day trip bought in China or Nepal after which sightseers can go off on their own as long as they take government guides. Hiring one in Lhasa to Tsurphu costs from $50 per day. Without...