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Amdo
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Region in the north-east of
Tibet.
His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama
was born here, at
Takster.
Many of the Tibetan refugees in
Dharamsala,
India, are from Amdo.
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Barkhor
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Precincts of the temple of the
Jokhang.
Pilgrims walk round clockwise, reciting prayers.
[ ref ]
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Annapurna
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Nepal
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(Skt.)
"food-filled"
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Mountain in
Nepal.
The name "Annapurna" is another name for
Parvati,
as
Ambi Annapurna
the mountain goddess.
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Bö
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Tibet
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Bodhi Tree
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"awakening tree"
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Bodhi tree.
The fig tree in
Bodh Gaya
under which
Gautama
the
Buddha
achieved
enlightenment.
"The fig tree is sacred in India - it is believed that
women who pray in its shade will have children.
Also gods and spirits are said to live in it.
The banyan tree is also of the fig species."
[ ref ]
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Bodh Gaya
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"awakening ... "
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The place where
Gautama
the
Buddha
achieved enlightenment,
under the
Bo Tree.
Located in Bihar in Northern India.
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Brahmaputra
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Tibet
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(Skt.)
"son of Brahma"
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The great river which springs from
Mount Kailash,
where Shiva resides.
Flows east through Tibet past Lhasa, then turns south
and finally joins the Ganges in Bengal and Bangladesh to
form the earth's largest delta.
Thus the son of Brahma and the sister of
Parvati
are united.
[ ref ]
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Changtse-Shar
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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"The residence of the
Dalai Lama's
family before the
Chinese invasion,
located between the centre of
Lhasa
and the
Potala."
[ ref ]
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China
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Eng.
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An old country with a long history.
The
Chinese invasion
of
Tibet,
Mongolia,
and
East Turkestan,
and the following
"Cultural Revolution"
wrought incredible havoc and suffering on the peoples of
those countries, as well as of China itself.
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Dharamsala
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Hindi?
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(Hindi)
pilgrim's rest
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Town in Northwest India, home of the exiled
Dalai Lama,
leader of
Tibet,
many refugees from Tibet,
and the Tibetan Government-in-exile.
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Drepung Gomang
(aka Gomang)
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Tibet, India
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(Tib.)
"rice heap"
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Monastery of Tibet, now in South India.
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Düdtsi-til
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
"hill of
amrita"
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A smaller
monastery
of
Surmang,
in
Kham.
Founded by
Künga-gyaltzen.
One of the homes of the
Trungpa Tulku.
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Ganchen Kyishong
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India
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(Tib.)
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The Central Tibetan Administration complex,
in Dharamsala, North India.
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Geden Cheoeling
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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in North India - McLeod Ganj
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Himachala
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Tibet, India
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The
Himalayan
Mountains
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Himalaya
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Tibet, India
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"abode of snow"
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Contains the sources of all the great rivers of India:
Indus, Yamuna, Ganges,
Brahmaputra (Tsang Po),
and the five rivers of the Punjab.
Personified as the mighty Mountain God,
father of the great goddess
Parvati.
[ ref ]
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India
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Bharat, Hindustan
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Home of
Hinduism
and birthplace of
Buddhism.
Gave, and still gives, refuge to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people
when they were
invaded
by the chinese government.
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Isipatana
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India
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The deer-park at
Sarnath
where the
Gautama
Buddha
preached his first sermon.
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Jokhang
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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The
Tsulakhang,
the most important temple in
Lhasa.
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Kailasa
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Tibet
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"silver mountain"
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Mount
Kailash
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Kailash
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Tibet
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"silver mountain"
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Where Shiva has his palace,
with
Parvati.
The
Tsang Po (Bhramaputra)
river springs from this mountain.
Also called
Kailasa, Kelas.
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Kalimpong
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India, Tibet
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Once part of
Tibet,
now in
Sikkim
in
India.
Was a trade center and center of
Buddhist
studies.
The Amdo monk
Gendun Choephel
lived there at that time.
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Kapilavastu
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India
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The capital of
King Suddhodana of
Sakya,
on the River Rohini,
c. 560 BCE,
where
Gautama
Buddha
lived, and where he returned for a while after his
Enlightenment.
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Kelas
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Tibet
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"silver mountain"
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Mount
Kailash
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Kham
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Province in eastern
Tibet.
Known for its warriors,
khampas.
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Kusinara
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India
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The place where
Gautama
the
Buddha
attained his
paranirvana.
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Kyi Chu
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
"... water"
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The river flowing by
Lhasa.
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Ladakh
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Tibet, India
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(Tib.?)
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Once part of
Tibet,
now within borders of
India.
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Lhasa
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Capital of
Tibet,
located in
U-tsang
province.
Location of the
Jokhang
temple, and home of the
Dalai Lama
before the
invasion
of the People's Republic of China.
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McLeod Ganj
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Brit.
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Upper
Dharamsala,
in Northwest India.
Home of His Holiness the
Dalai Lama,
and many Tibetan monasteries, people, and monks.
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Magadha
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India
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(Skt.)
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The state now called Bihar.
Where
Gautama
the
Buddha
reached
enlightenment
under the
Bodhi-tree
and where he preached.
Pali was spoken there at that time.
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Manasa
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Tibet
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(Skt.)
"spiritual"
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A lake on
Mount Kailash.
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Monasteries
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Many of the
monasteries
of
Tibet
now have counterparts in, or have relocated to,
India:
Drepung Gomang
Geden Cheoeling
Namgyal
Nechung
Pepung
Samye - Tibet
Sera - South India
Surmang - Tibet
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Mongolia
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Mongolia
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A large country between
China,
Tibet,
and
Russia.
Portions of it are now part of other countries.
The northern part (Buryatia) is a part of
Russia today. Inner Mongolia and the northern part of current-day
"Xinjiang" have been colonized and absorbed
by China in this century, suffering the same
tragedies as Tibet and East Turkestan (or, the
Uiger country).
So sadly, the word "Mongolia"
these days only refers to the area named
"Mongolia" on the world political map.
Mongolia had a long and important relationship
with Tibet spirtually and politically.
See
Mongol-Tibet Network
and
InterMongol Network
for more information.
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Namgyal Monastery
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Tibet, India
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(Tib.)
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Private
monastery
of His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.
Now in North
India,
at
Mcleod Ganj.
Has an audio/visual lab where teachings
of His Holiness and others are preserved
and are being digitized.
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Namgyalma Stupa
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India
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(Tib.)
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Stupa
in the center of
McLeod Ganj,
India.
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Namgyal-tse
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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A larger
monastery
of
Surmang,
in
Kham.
One of the homes of the
Trungpa Tulku.
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Nechung
Monastery
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Tib
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Monastery where the
kuten
of
Dorje Drakden,
the
Nechung Oracle,
lives,
in
Gangchen Kyishong,
Dharamsala,
North
india.
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Nepal
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?
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?
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A kingdom, north of
india
in the
Himalayas.
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Norbulingka
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
"Jewel Park"
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The
Dalai Lama's
summer palace in
Lhasa,
Tibet.
Built in the
eighteenth century
by the
seventh Dalai Lama.
"consisted of a series of small palaces and temples with marvellous
gardens surrounded by a huge wall.
At the first sign of spring,
His Holiness [the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama]
used to go there with a long procession made up of dignatires from Lhasa.
[ ref ]
A historical spot in the
March 10th uprising
of Tibetans against the
Chinese invasion
of Tibet.
It now has a counterpart in South
India.
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Pepung
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Buddhist
monastery
in the province of Derge in
Kham.
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Potala
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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The
Dalai Lama's
winter palace in
Lhasa,
Tibet.
Was built up by
Songtsen Gampo
in the
seventh century,
and enlarged by the
Fifth Dalai Lama
in the
seventeenth.
"The central part of the edifice was 13 floors high,
with large ceremonial rooms, chapels, cells for meditation,
and the mausoleums where the
Dalai Lamas
were embalmed.
The west wing housed a
community of monks.
and in the east wing were the administrative offices,
with meeting rooms and a school for the monks to be
employed by the government."
[ ref ]
"[It also] contained armouries, ammunition stores, and cellars
where the government's archives were kept:
libraries with thousands of volumes testifying to the life and
development of Tibetan culture.
These libraries held ancient parchments,
books
written on the back of palm trees and imported
from India several centuries before,
as well as volumes of
sacred texts
written in a special ink made from a blend of gold or silver,
and iron or copper powder,
or sometimes from the powder of ground stones or shells."
[ ref ]
"His Holiness' residence was at the top of the stairs,
400 feet above the town."
[ ref ]
Now empty, and gutted by the
Chinese invasion
of Tibet.
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Russia
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One of the players in the "Great Game" of the big
powers looking for influence in inner Asia, resulting
only in tragedy for the peoples of
Tibet,
Mongolia,
Turkestan,
China,
smaller countries within those, now swallowed up,
and bordering peoples.
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Sakya Kingdom
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India
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(Skt., Tib.)
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Kingdom in which
Gautama
Buddha
was born, and of which he was prince.
In what is now the state of Bihar in
India,
and the Kingdom of
Nepal.
("Sakya", also, a
school
of Tibetan Buddhism.)
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Sakya Monastery
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India
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(Skt., Tib.)
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A
monastery
in western Tibet, from which originated the
Sakyapa
lineage of
Tibetan Buddhism.
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Samye
Monastery
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Tibet, India
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(Tib.)
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The
first Buddhist
monastery,
779 CE.
in Tibet.
Padmasambhava
helped to build it.
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Sarnath
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India
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In Bihar, India.
The location of the deer-park
Isipatana
where the
Gautama
Buddha
preached his first sermon.
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Sera Monastery
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Tibet, India
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Early
monastery,
destroyed in Tibet (?),
active in South
India.
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Shechen Monastery
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Tibet
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Monastery
of
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Mostly destroyed during the
Cultural Revolution,
and now being rebuilt.
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Sikkim
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Tibet, India
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Was part of
Tibet.
After the British invasion of Tibet in
1888,
it was illegally brought within the boundaries of
India.
There are settlements of Tibetan
refugees there.
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Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka
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Also, "Ceylon".
A center of
Theravada
Buddhism.
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Sungchorawa
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Tibet
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Place used for instruction in the
Barkhor
[ ref ]
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Surmang
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
"many-cornered"
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The
monasteries
of the
Trungpa Tulku,
Karma-ka-gyu
school.
Some of them are
Düdtsi-til
and ...
The original Surmang monastery was founded
by Trung-mase Rinpoche at the end of the
14th century. It was built of reeds and
many-cornered.
[ref]
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Takster
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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A farming village in
Amdo,
where
His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama
was born.
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Thekchen Choeling
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India
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(Tib.)
"Island of the Mahayana Teaching"
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Area on ridgepoint in McLeod Ganj including
the
Tsulakhang,
the Dalai Lama's residence and compound,
Namgyal
monastery,
and the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD).
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Tibet
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Tibet
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(??)
Tibetan name for Tibet is
Bö
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The highest country in the world, in Asia, surrounded by China, Nepal,
India, East Turkestan, and Mongolia.
The home of
Buddhism
after it disppeared from its birthplace, India.
Guardian diety is
Padmasambhava.
Presently occupied and colonized by the
People's Republic of China.
[http://www.tibet.com/]
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Tsang Po
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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A great river which springs from Mount
Kailash,
flows east through Tibet
(now occupied by the Chinese) past
Lhasa,
then turns south and finally joins the
Ganges
in Bengal and Bangladesh to form the earth's
largest delta.
Known in
India
as Bhramaputra, "Son of Brahma".
Thus the son of Brahama and the sister of
Parvati
(the mountains) are united.
[ ref ]
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Tse School
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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"School for training monks who formed cadres in the
government of
Tibet.
Graduates from this school who wanted to work in the
civil service then underwent higher traiing at the
religious school.
Lay civil servants were mainly trained at the Tse School."
Was located at the Summit
(the
Potala).
Founded by the
Seventh Dalai Lama.
[ ref ]
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Tso Pema
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
"Lotus Lake"
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Lake near Rewalsar, about ninety miles from
Dharamsala,
India.
Sacred to Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus.
For Buddhists it is associated with
Padmasambhava,
and is a place of pilgrimage and
monasteries.
"The legend tells how the king of Mandi,
the nearby city, was displeased by the sight of his
beloved daughter paying attention to the wise man's
teachings, and so gave orders for him to be taken and burned alive.
The moment the pyre was lit, instead of flames it was a lake
that sprang out,
and there in the middle sat the Prevous Master, smiling,
on a
lotus flower."
[ ref ]
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Tsulakhang
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Tibet, India
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(Tib.)
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Main Temple in McLeod Ganj at
Thekchen Choeling
In
Lhasa,
Tibet,
it is the most important temple.
This temple was built to house the gifts of
images
of
Sakyamuni
Buddha,
brought by the Nepalese princess
Brikuti
who was one of the queens of King
Songtsen Gampo
who ruled Tibet between 630 to 649 CE.
It is the temple most venerated by
Tibetan Buddhists.
Pilgrims walk round the
Barkhor, reciting prayers.
[ ref ]
Contains three huge statues of
Sakyamuni Buddha,
Padmasambhava,
and
Avalokiteshvara.
Parts of the Sakyamuni statue were smuggled out of
Tibet.
The area of the temple and
His Holiness'
residence in
McLeod Ganj,
India,
is also known as the TsulaKhang.
Also known as Jokhang, Ramoche Tsulakhang.
Also Tsuklakhang, Tsuklag Khang.
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United States
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A country in the middle of the North American continent.
Likes to think of itself as champion of freedom,
but is noticeably absent from action when such championing
is not in its own best interests: viz.
its sudden dropping of support of Tibet,
refusal to participate in world environmental crisis planning,
ignoring of other countries whose issues are not
affecting it economically and politically, etc.
Culturally, closely resembles the Land of the
Hungry Ghosts,
of
Buddhism.
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Uruvela
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A town in Bihar, near which the
Buddha
received
enlightenment.
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U-tsang
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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Western province of
Tibet,
where
Lhasa
is located.
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Wutaishan
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Chin.
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(Ch.)
five-peaked(?) mountain
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In Shansi province, China.
The holiest place in China to Tibetan
Buddhists.
Sacred to buddhism for over 1400 years.
"Five-peaked mountain" to Tibetans.
Sacred to
Manjushri,
Buddha
of
wisdom,
whose incarnation is the
Manchu Emperor.
The
Dalai Lama
is the incarnation of
Chenresig
(Avalokiteshvara),
the
Buddha
of
compassion.
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Yumbu Lagar
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Tibet
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(Tib.)
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First fort in Tibet, at Yumbu.
Constructed by
Nyatri Tsampo
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