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The Tibetan Plateau, [a] also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau [b] and Qing–Zang Plateau, [c] is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia. [ d ] . Geographically, it is located to the north of Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent , and to the south of Tarim Basin and Mongolian Plateau .
Tibetan folk opera, known as lhamo, is a combination of dances, chants and songs. The repertoire is drawn from Buddhist stories and Tibetan history. [49] Tibetan opera was founded in the fourteenth century by Thang Tong Gyalpo, a lama and a bridge-builder. Gyalpo and seven girls he recruited organized the first performance to raise funds for ...
The name, Bhotiya (also spelt "Bhotia"), derives from the word Bod (བོད་), which is the Classical Tibetan name for Tibet. [3] It was the term used by the British to refer to the borderland people, due to a presumed resemblance to the Tibetans. The Government of India continues to use the term. [4]
Gurla Mandhata is a romanization of the Hindi name गुरला मन्धाता, Sanskrit: गन्धमादन.It supposedly derives from a pass near the mountain [4] and the legendary prehistoric Indian king Mandhata of the Raghuvaṃśa branch of the Solar Dynasty, who supposedly conquered the earth and passed the mountain on his way to the sacred lake Manasarovar beside the ...
The mountain range is known as Himālaya in Hindi and Nepali (both written हिमालय), [10] Himalaya (ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ་) in Tibetan, [11] Himāliya (سلسلہ کوہ ہمالیہ) in Urdu, [12] Himaloy (হিমালয়) in Bengali, [13] and Ximalaya (simplified Chinese: 喜马拉雅; traditional Chinese: 喜馬拉雅 ...
A second climber who was striving to become the first American woman to conquer all of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks has lost her life on a remote Tibetan mountain, it was reported.
The Tibetan wolf, snow leopard and lynx are major predators of livestock in the Ladakh region of India. Goats, sheep, yak and horses were their most common prey. [ 6 ] In Mustang, Nepal, rising temperatures and declining snowfall are reducing the area available for agriculture, forcing villagers to relocate and reducing grassland and forest cover.
It is widely regarded as one of the easier mountains of that height, known among climbers as the "eight-thousanders". Two killed by avalanches on Tibet’s Shishapangma as 50 were climbing Skip to ...