A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet is a nonfiction book written by Sarat Chandra Das, published in 1902. It is a travelogue of Das' second visit to...

Tibetan characters. Tibet (/tɪˈbɛt/ ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 藏区; pinyin: Zàngqū), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western...

Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa...

way to Gyantse and eventually reached Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, in August 1904. The Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, had fled to safety, first to Mongolia...

a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a...

to Lhasa in 1913 and ruled an independent Tibet until his death in 1933. The political status of Tibet during the Qing period has been described as a...

Lhasa is a prefecture-level city, one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It covers an area of 29,274 square...

1933, a condolence mission sent to Lhasa by the Kuomintang-ruled Nationalist government to start negotiations about Tibet's status was allowed to open...

and cross into Tibet. After being initially rejected by the isolated nation, they manage to travel in disguise to the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa....

Inc., Los Angeles. ISBN 0-87477-518-3 Das, Sarat Chandra. Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, Edited by: Rockhill, William Woodville, (2001), PalJor Publications...

Rockhill, William Woodville (ed.). A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet. John Murray. pp. V. Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, Das, Sarat Chandra, pp xi–xiii...

the Qing put Tibet under its direct control by stationing a permanent garrison in Lhasa and appointing an Imperial Commissioner in Tibet to supervise the...

Himalaya. The thousand-year-old Lhasa Newar tradition came to an end after the caravan route linking India and Tibet through Sikkim was shut down by the...

times and increase connectivity between Lhasa and the eastern cities of the country. Prior to the Sichuan-Tibet railway, one must travel via Golmud and Lanzhou...

Revolution in Tibet, the Red Guards attacked the Jokhang temple in 1966 and for a decade there was no worship. During the Chinese development of Lhasa, the Barkhor...

(Tibetan: གླིང་ག, Wylie: gling ga) is commonly used in Tibet to define all horticultural parks in Lhasa and other cities. When the Cultural Revolution began...

blocked trade routes from China to Central Tibet, and sent troops into China. Local chieftains had appealed to both the Lhasa and the Qing Manchu governments...

of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. London: John Murray. Das, S. C. (1902). A Journey to Lhasa and central...

chapter 5. Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa, pp. 295–302. Clements R. Markham. (1876). Reprint...

of Guge in western Tibet. The Catholic Church of Lhasa was the first Catholic church built in Tibet, but was destroyed in 1745. Today, Our Lady of the...

road network between Lhasa, Nepal and western Tibet. Construction started in 2010 of the Lhasa–Shigatse Railway to Samzhubzê and was completed in 2014...

without Lhasa's or Beijing's acknowledgement, recognized the suzerainty of China over Tibet. The Qing central government claimed for sovereignty and direct...

route through Ladakh to Tibet, determined the location and altitude of Lhasa in Tibet, and surveyed a large section of Brahmaputra. His reports were initially...

The sinicization of Tibet includes the programs and laws of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to force cultural assimilation...

and the Chinese brought him to Lhasa and made him chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region. After a tour through Tibet in...

him of Mao's decision to postpone for six years further reforms in Tibet. Both Nehru and Enlai counseled the Lama to return to Lhasa. Although the Chinese...

(dzhyuma). (in Russian) "Journey to Lhasa and central Tibet". 1902. Taylor, Gladys (1956). Saints and their Flowers. Oxford: A. R. Mowbray & Co. The Pliocene...

Sarat Chandra. (1902). Lhasa and Central Tibet. Reprint: (1988). Mehra Offset Press, Delhi. Dorje, Gyume (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan....

lands adjacent to Tibet, and moved the capital to the Red Fort in Lhasa. His minister Thonmi Sambhota created the Tibetan script and Classical Tibetan...

Dynasty (1644-1912) and in the ROC (1912–1949), the part of Tibet governed by Lhasa was limited to the modern Tibet Autonomous Region, and did not include...