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  Zang people, Tibetan People, Chinese Ethnic Minorities
The Tibetan language that belongs to the Tibetan-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family is divided into three dialects and has both spoken and written forms.
In the scientific arena, Tibetan medicine, combining various forms of traditional Chinese medicine, is said to have developed the schools of acupuncture and massage.
The Tibetan knife, sharp and delicate, is often used to cut meat.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/nationality/tibetan/index.htm   (617 words)

  
  Tibetan people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tibetans traditionally explain their own origins as rooted in the marriage of the bodhisattva Chenrezig and a mountain ogress.
Tibetan art is deeply religious in nature, from the exquistely detailed statues found in Gompas to wooden carvings and the intricate designs of the Thangka paintings.
The Tibetan opera was founded in the 14th century by Thangthong Gyalpo, a Lama and a bridge builder.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnic_Tibetan   (2220 words)

  
 PRC Demographers on Mongols, Tibetans, Uighurs
In 1990 ethnic Tibetans comprised 95.5 percent of the population of the Tibetan autonomous region.
Of the active ethnic Tibetan population, 84.4 percent were engaged in agriculture, forestry, herding or aquaculture in 1990, down from 89.1 percent in 1982.
The proportion of ethnic Tibetans over age 15 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region recorded as illiterate or semi-literate in the 1990 census was 72.8 percent compared with the all China national average of 22.8 percent.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/344.html   (4077 words)

  
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Both the Chinese Constitution and the Law on Ethnic Regional Autonomy specify that the chairmen or vice-chairmen of the standing committees of the people's congresses of ethnic autonomous areas shall be citizens of the ethnic group or groups exercising regional autonomy in the area concerned.
The chairman of an autonomous region, the governor of an autonomous prefecture and the head of an autonomous county shall be a citizen of the ethnic group exercising regional autonomy in the area concerned.
China's Law on Ethnic Regional Autonomy stipulates that in performing their functions, the organs of self-government of every ethnic autonomous area, in accordance with the regulations on the exercise of autonomy in those areas, employ the spoken and written languages or languages in common use in the locality.
members.tripod.com /ghyuan/china/TibetAutonomousRegion-2.html   (1888 words)

  
 Tibet: Yeshe Gyatso sechs Jahre Haft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Both Tibetan and Chinese languages are used in all schools in Tibet, with the Tibetan as the major one, and the textbooks and teaching reference books from primary to high school have been edited, translated into and published in Tibetan language.
Tibetans and all the other minority ethnic groups in China enjoy the right and freedom to keep their traditional lifestyles and to engage in social activities according to their own customs and habits.
The institution of regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet is the logical outcome of the Tibetan people's adherence to development along the road of Chinese-style socialism under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and also the basic institutional guarantee for Tibetans to be true masters of their own affairs.
www.igfm-muenchen.de /tibet/diir/2004/Whitepaper23May04.html   (5688 words)

  
 International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet News: Tibet Section of State Department 2001 Human Rights Report
Tibetan monks have claimed that they were forced to sign statements pledging allegiance to the boy the Government selected as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
Tibetans, as one of China's 55 minority ethnic groups, receive preferential treatment in marriage and family planning policies, and, to a lesser extent, in university admissions and government employment.
Ethnic Tibetans resent the fact that Han representation in the student body and faculty far exceeds their proportion of the total TAR population.
www.savetibet.org /news/newsitem.php?id=186   (5105 words)

  
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 Encyclopedia: Tibetan Autonomous Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Other parts of historic Tibet (eastern Kham and Amdo) were not under the administration of the Tibetan government during the 20th century; today they are distributed among the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan.
Following Soviet practice, there is a convention that the governor of the TAR is an ethnic Tibetan from the TAR while the general secretary of the local Communist Party committee is an outsider, usually Han Chinese.
Most of the population comprises of the ethnic Tibetans, who mainly adhere to Tibetan Buddhism and Bön.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tibetan-Autonomous-Region   (546 words)

  
 Talk.politics.tibet: FAQ [1/1] FAQ
The ethnic Chinese population is concentrated in the vicinity of Xining, the capital.
Ethnic Chinese, Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Muslims/Turkestanis] are joined in democratic union, the lands comprised within the confines of Mongolia, Tibet and Turkestan all become a part of the territory of the Republic of China.
Accurate figures for the ethnic breakdown of Tibet's population are difficult to obtain and are disputed by Chinese officials and the Tibetan exile community.
www.non.com /news.answers/tibet-faq.html   (5977 words)

  
 Tibet Initiative Deutschland - Newsletter Tibet Bureau Genf - October 1999
Ethnic areas are vast in territory, have rich resources and a broad potential market, and their strategic position is very important.
Ethnic regional autonomy is a basic political system of our country that closely integrates centralized and unified leadership with regional autonomy in areas inhabited by minority ethnic groups, and it has great political vitality.
The state protects according to law the right of autonomy in areas where ethnic autonomy is implemented, and areas where ethnic autonomy is implemented should comprehensively implement the principles and policies of the party and the state and creatively carry out their work in light of local realities.
www.users.odn.de /~ia/news10.htm   (20617 words)

  
 International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet: US Government and Tibet: Government Reports: State Department Report on Human ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A majority of judges are ethnic Tibetans, but most have little or no legal training.
This holds true for many ethnic Tibetan government officials and Communist Party members.
There also are two bilingual channels on which Tibetan language programs make up 15 percent of the total.
www.savetibet.org /tibet/us/reports/humanrights2001.php?printable=yes   (5121 words)

  
 Tibetan Nationality- Yunnan ethnic minority groups-Yunnan Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Yunnan, the Tibetans are scattered across the Diqing (Deqen) Plateau in the northwestern part of Yunnan.
Whenever there is a festival, there are always jubilant performances which center around singing and dancing, and sports.
On New Year's Eve, ceremonial dances are performed in all the great lamaseries in the Diqing Zang nationality (Tibetan) Autonomous Region.
www.yunnantour.com /minorities/tibetan.htm   (110 words)

  
 Govt. White Papers - china.org.cn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
V. Regional Ethnic Autonomy Is the Fundamental Guarantee
But, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central Government brought peaceful liberation to Tibet, and instituted the Democratic Reform and regional ethnic autonomy there, completing the task of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal national democratic revolution.
It is hoped that the Dalai Lama will look reality in the face, make a correct judgment of the situation, truly relinquish his stand for "Tibet independence," and do something beneficial to the progress of China and the region of Tibet in his remaining years.
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