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Adam Yauch's recorded voice comes pounding out of the speakers, in support of political justice and inner peace. If the world of Tibeto-Buddhist chic can be said to have a red-hot center, it inhabits the small restaurant in Manhattan's East Village where Yauch and his Milarepa fund are celebrating the release of the Tibetan Freedom Concert's CD. Opinion makers in knapsacks and nose rings schmooze; a large portrait of the Dalai Lama beams...
...dependent states taken from their motherland by the imperialists who divided China early in this century. In addition, India's Northeast Frontier Agency is claimed by China as part of its former dependencies. In 1962, the Chinese moved 30,000 troops into the territory--where the inhabitants are predominantly Tibeto-Burmese of Mongolian origin--and laid claim...
...open with a red-hot poker. The first people to tumble out were the aboriginal Kha. a little darkened by the searing heat. After them came the cooler and lighter-skinned Laotians. Anthropologists take a duller view, and say that the Laotians are simply a branch of the great Tibeto-Burman race that swept into southeast Asia over six centuries ago and conquered the local Malay tribes...
Since its founding in 1866, the Museum has sent more than 430 expeditions to all parts of the world. This year field expeditions have been sent to Ireland, the Tibeto-Indian border, Arizona, and Utah. In addition preparations are under way for work in Greece...
...years have been spent by the expedition on the Tibeto-Indian border, in Assam and in Burma, and another year or more will be required to complete these studies in Cambridge. From a 2000 mile front of ethnic groups, 6400 records have been brought back which have proved invaluable in formulating conclusions of the nature of the area...