Lhasa


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the sacred city of Lamaism

a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs

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After the Lhasa riots, Chinese police cracked down with force.
In the aftermath of the Lhasa riots, similar disturbances occurred across the Tibetan Plateau, now divided into the Tibet Autonomous Region and several autonomous districts in the neighboring provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan.
Third, we all helped others with difficult situations, whether a fractured foot on the Great Wall, significant respiratory problems in Lhasa or empathizing with those delegates whose homes and businesses were affected by Hurricane Rita.
You should buy it because you could perhaps help to save Lhasa, and because the book is a beautifully and carefully crafted account of a fragile civilization hovering at the very edge of cultural catastrophe.
Particularly in view of this great uncertainty about the overt shapes of many of the very ordinary words in his version of Lhasa Tibetan, it is all the more difficult to understand why D retranscribes, and thus alters into his own idiosyncratic version of the language, citations he draws from the literature where the original he is thus tampering with is surely closer to the real thing than are his data (e.g., p.
The climb up to the top is exhausting but offers great views of the strip like city which lies between two mountain ranges with the river Lhasa (which is tricts, there is also a four- lane highway being laid and tunnels being bored through the mountain to get out of Lhasa valley.
China: Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital on Sunday in protest against Chinese rule, a US-based broadcaster reported.
A LAID-back Lhasa apso was crowned Best in Show at Crufts last night.
Travel Business Review-December 20, 2011--Air China Announces New Beijing to Lhasa Service(C)2011] ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk
BEIJING, October 06, SPA--An 18-year-old woman in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa has become China's first swine flu fatality, the Health Ministry and a state news agency said Tuesday.
Tibetans living and doing business in Lhasa seem to be the main concern of authorities in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday as fewer armed antiriot officers are patrolling the adjacent Muslim community.
The first night operations at Lhasa Gongga Airport in Tibet have been launched by Chinese airline Air China.