12 Facts About Tibetan people

1.

The traditional or mythological explanation of the Tibetan people's origin is that they are the descendants of the human Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa and rock ogress Ma Drag Sinmo.

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Also, the Tibetan people administration did not take a formal census of its territory in the 1950s; the numbers provided by the administration at the time were "based on informed guesswork".

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3.

In India Tibetic Tibetan people are found in the regions of Ladakh, Spiti valley, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh .

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4.

Classical Tibetan people is a major regional literary language, particularly for its use in Buddhist literature.

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5.

Tibetan people are genetically most closely related to Han Chinese, Bhutanese.

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6.

However, because the Tibetan people script had not been invented, the text could not be translated in writing and no one initially knew what was written in it.

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7.

Tibetan lamas, both Buddhist and Bon, play a major role in the lives of the Tibetan people, conducting religious ceremonies and taking care of the monasteries.

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8.

In order not to desecrate religious artifacts such as Stupas, mani stones, and Gompas, Tibetan people Buddhists walk around them in a clockwise direction, although the reverse direction is true for Bon.

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9.

Tibetan people art is deeply religious in nature, from the exquisitely detailed statues found in Gonpas to wooden carvings and the intricate designs of the Thangka paintings.

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10.

Tibetan people folk opera, known as lhamo, is a combination of dances, chants and songs.

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11.

Tibetan people opera was founded in the fourteenth century by Thang Tong Gyalpo, a lama and a bridge-builder.

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12.

Traditional Tibetan people medicine utilizes up to two thousand types of plants, forty animal species, and fifty minerals.

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