Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the more tranquil days of 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of newly independent India, sipped Coke as the cornerstone was laid for an Indian Coke-bottling plant, or in the mid-'60s, when the Dalai Lama, in India as a refugee from the Communist takeover of Tibet, happily quaffed Coke...
From birth, Chogyam Trungpa Tulku was destined for great things. The son of poor nomads, he was born in a yak-skin tent near Pago-Punsum, one of the holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles...
Exotic Externals. The roots of Naropa go back to 1959, when Chogyam fled the Communist takeover of Tibet and went to England to study Western culture at Oxford. Once there, he decided to wear Western clothes, to "do away with exotic externals, which were too fascinating to students in the West." The next step: marriage to a 16-year-old English girl. At that heresy against celibacy, his followers in the United Kingdom rebelled, and Chogyam decided to try America...
...another China-vast deserts and snow-capped mountains and new oilfields. These are the sparsely populated frontier lands-80% of China's land mass but with less than 5% of its people-stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner...
Grazing Camels. The basic tactic of China's border policy is the massive settlement of its Han people among the native inhabitants. In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the 120,000 Chinese cadres are much in evidence, and the exiled Dalai Lama's Potala Palace is no more than a well-tended cultural relic. Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples-Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols...