According to China Daily, a Beijing-based newspaper, China Telecom launched the first Tibetan-language smartphone in June.
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They were searching for the birthing grounds of a rare and endangered Tibetan antelope called the chiru.
China says it is working to bring progress and development to Tibetan areas.
All that, and yet they are still determined to bring Keaton the Tibetan terrier to the Westminster dog show.
To add to all that, crossing points have had to be built for migratory Tibetan antelopes, an endangered species.
It is dug up on the Tibetan plateau, to the concern of environmentalists.
The local Tibetan people are beginning to adapt to the tourism that the natural beauty of their home has inspired.
But arguably the crowning jewel is the Sun Kosi, a wild ride along monster rapids that begins near the Tibetan border.
The Tibetan people hope to live and work in peace and stability.
As the service began, Sherpas laid Tibetan prayer scarves on the coffin.
His team drilled cores from the ice of five Tibetan glaciers in order to examine the past few decades' worth of pollution.
Those suggestions are corroborated by a study led by Xu Baiqing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, in Beijing.
Lushan, where the quake struck, is home to 1.5 million people where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau.
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Lushan, where the quake struck, lies where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau and sits atop the Longmenshan fault.
Buttery, salty, and sometimes thickened with tsampa (roasted barley flour), Tibetan tea is a buck-you-up belly warmer to see you through a winter's day or summer fieldwork.
Its bottled water, energy drinks and yogurt are ubiquitous from the urban markets of Beijing and Shanghai to rural stalls in the snowy mountains of the Tibetan plateau.
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But unlike Everest, which is cocooned by other peaks on the Tibetan plateau, McKinley stands unchallenged, a solid wall of rock and ice rising like an apparition above the wild taiga.
The school of Tibetan Buddhism he heads has just been celebrating its 900th anniversary in India at Bodh Gaya, site of the bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment.
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On a cold and rain-washed morning, high up in the Himalayas, we made our way towards the small village of Gue, just 9km from the Tibetan border, to see what surprise Suraj had in store.
Tibetan health-care traditions and their links to landscape and culture are central to the medicinal plants conservation programme supported in Shey Phoksundo National Park in the alpine meadows of the Eastern Himalaya, Nepal.
Yaks live in alpine tundra, grasslands and the cold desert regions of the northern Tibetan Plateau, ranging from 13, 000 to 20, 000 feet (4, 000 to 6, 100 meters) in elevation, according to the IUCN.
Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.
The quake in the mountainous region had flattened homes -- many of which were made with wood and earth -- and other buildings in Jiegu and elsewhere in Yushu prefecture, a Tibetan region of Qinghai.
Gangs of workers are rebuilding the Beijing-to-Lhasa road that crosses the Qinghai and Tibetan plateaus: a government minister says China will build 150, 000km (about 94, 000 miles) of new highways in western China over the next decade.
"It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism -- because that's mainly what I've been exposed to -- was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction, " the magazine quoted him as saying.
Scafetta believes that a natural 60-year climate cycle associated with astronomical cycles may also explain calendars adopted in traditional Chinese, Tamil and Tibetan civilizations, since all major ancient civilizations knew about 20-year and 60-year Jupiter and Saturn cycles.
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At 58, he is a handsome guy: a tanned face with vivid white teeth, well-worn smile lines around his eyes, an artful salt-and-pepper stubble and a mop of dark hair whose heft he attributes to his daily Tibetan yoga rites.
The launch on July 1st of the first passenger train services to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, has been covered by the Chinese media with hoopla only comparable to that surrounding the country's first launch of a man into space three years ago.
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