MIT Tibet Forum

Primary Documents
Treaties, official documents, maps, reference works...

37 Topics

37 Posts

Last post by MITTibetForum
May 08 2009 (13:49)

• * Map: People's Republic of China, 1950
• * Telegraphs on the Enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama, 1940
• * Map: Chinese Civil War, 1949
• * Book: Atlas of the World and Gazetteer, NY, 1925
• * Map: Tibet in early Republic of China (pre-1925)

History & Religion
History, religion, ethnography, language, personalities...

113 Topics

116 Posts

Last post by Sambuke
May 20 2009 (23:37)

• * Divination Practices Unique to the Bon Religion and Related Rituals
• * Cultural Revolution in Tibet
• * A few questions for the browsers
• * Documentary on the hometown of the 14th Dalai Lama
• * Nyingma Sect

Culture & Arts
Culture, arts, customs, food, television, literature...

98 Topics

109 Posts

Last post by MITTibetForum
Apr 28 2009 (14:18)

• * Etiquette-Etiquette in Tibet (zz)
• * Tibetan Rock Dog rocks on
• * Sky burial
• * Young Tibetans infuse new vigor into Tibetan culture
• * Modern Tibetan music, Vajara band and Acha band

Contemporary Development
Development, economics, education, policy, ethnic relations...

93 Topics

100 Posts

Last post by MITTibetForum
May 01 2009 (02:18)

• * Tibet: Development for Whom? by Barry Sautman and Irene Eng
• * Students Learn Tibetan in Lhasa School
• * Restoration of 3 Tibetan cultural relic sites to be completed this year
• * Old poster
• * Ecological tourism zone to build in Nyingchi

Travel & Leisure
Travel, photography, geography...

111 Topics

115 Posts

Last post by abalone
May 04 2009 (22:53)

• * Pictures taken in Tibet
• * Transportation
• * Beautiful Medog
• * Yarchen Monastery
• * Tibet has a varied topography divided

News & Hot Topics
News, media, current events, activities, issues...

90 Topics

116 Posts

Last post by kurtwt
May 17 2009 (02:31)

• * A feedback from Timothy Pi, CFA
• * French Ambassador: Westerners must know Tibet reality
• * The truth about Tibet
• * Tibetans to boycott local taxi and auto-rickshaw service in McLeod Gunj
• * 3.14 riots not spontaneous, not peaceful

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