• Tibetan silver (Chinese Zangyin) in modern usage refers to a variety of white non-precious metal alloys used primarily in jewelry components, with an appearance...
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    The tangka (Tibetan: Tam or dngul Tam = silver tangka) was a currency of Tibet until 1941. It was subdivided into 15 skar or 1+1⁄2 sho and, from 1909,...
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    1792 the first mass-produced silver coins were created under joint Chinese and local Tibetan authority. Coins bearing Tibetan inscriptions only were subsequently...
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  • gold) Platinum sterling (platinum) Shibuichi (copper) Sterling silver (copper) Tibetan silver (copper) 6al–4v (aluminium, vanadium) Beta C (vanadium, chromium...
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    Tibetan cuisine includes the culinary traditions and practices of the Tibetan people in the Tibet region. The cuisine reflects the Tibetan landscape of...
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    Tibet (redirect from Tibetan culture area)
    article contains Tibetan alphabet. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tibetan characters. Tibet...
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    the development of its distinct culture. Tibetan Buddhism has exerted a particularly strong influence on Tibetan culture since its introduction in the seventh...
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    The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly...
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    The srang (pronounced "sang"; in Tibetan often referred to as "dngul srang" i.e. "silver srang") was a currency of Tibet between 1909 and 1959. It circulated...
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    Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po, lit. 'Great Tibet'; Chinese: 吐蕃; pinyin: Tǔbō / Tǔfān) was an empire centered on the Tibetan...
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    "Science of awareness or nourishment" also known as Traditional Tibetan medicine (Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པ་, Wylie: bod kyi gso ba rig pa), is a centuries-old...
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    females. The infants have silver-and-black fur that changes to its adult color at the age of two. Male Tibetan macaque. Female Tibetan macaque breastfeeding...
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    The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (Tibetan: གཙོད་, Wylie: gtsod, pronounced [tsǿ]; Chinese: 藏羚羊; pinyin: zànglíngyáng) is a medium-sized...
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    popular instrument in the US-originating new-age genre often marketed as 'Tibetan music'. Standing bells are known by a wide variety of terms in English...
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    Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" (Tibetan: ཕྱག་མཚན་, THL: chaktsen) are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these...
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    The Sino-Tibetan War (Chinese: 康藏糾紛; pinyin: Kāngcáng jiūfēn, lit. Kham–Tibet dispute), also known as the Second Sino-Tibetan War, was a war that began...
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    The CIA Tibetan program was an anti-Chinese government covert operation spanning almost twenty years. It consisted of "political action, propaganda, paramilitary...
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    14th Dalai Lama (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
    and led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India. The adherents of Tibetan Buddhism consider...
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    bronzes, e.g. nickel silver and cupronickel Speculum metal UNS C69100 Copper is often alloyed with precious metals like gold (Au) and silver (Ag). † amount...
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    collections Inuit Art: Needle cases, Canadian Museum of History Mongolian/Tibetan silver needlecase, 19th century, McClung Museum Carved wooden needlecase, 15th...
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    including in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Bengali, Nepali, Tibetan and Mandarin. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English...
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    Chushi Gangdruk (Tibetan: ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་, Wylie: Chu bzhi sgang drug, lit. 'Four Rivers, Six Ranges') was a Tibetan guerrilla group. Formally organized...
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  • Shambhala (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
    contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...
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    Yak (redirect from Tibetan ox)
    called Tibetan: འབྲི་, Wylie: dri, Tibetan: འབྲི་, Wylie: dri or Tibetan: གནག, Wylie: g.nag in Tibetan and Tibetan: ཧཡག་མོ་, Wylie: hYag-mo in Balti....
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    contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters...
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  • collects Tibetan singing bowls and has used them in compositions such as Being in Life and The White Rooster. Critics have praised Silver’s work for being...
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    The contemporary Tibetan master, Yangthang Rinpoche, in his short text 'Summary of the View, Meditation, and Conduct': The Tibetan Canon also includes...
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    Dhvaja (redirect from Tibetan banner)
    Dhvaja (Sanskrit: ध्वज, romanized: Dhvaja, lit. 'flag'; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: rgyal-msthan) is the Sanskrit term for a banner or a flag. Flags are...
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  • Milarepa (2006 film) (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
    known Tibetan Saints. The film combined myth, biography, adventure, history and docudrama. The film featured Lhakpa Tsamchoe in her return to the silver screen...
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  • stater (gold) Corinthian stater (silver) Aurous Athenian drachma (silver) Stater (silver) Tetradrachm (silver) Drachma (silver) Alexandrian coinage Ptolemaic...
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