Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tsering Chungtak (December 25, 1984 – July 21, 2016 [1]) was a Tibetan model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Tibet at the 2006 edition of the environmentally oriented beauty pageant Miss Earth 2006. She was the first Tibetan woman to participate in any major international beauty contest.
Five young Tibetan women took part in the pageant. Tenzin Dolma from McLeod Ganj was crowned Miss Tibet 2007. She received a scholarship cheque of Rs 100,000 (US$2,500). She represented Tibet in the Miss Earth 2007 pageant in the Philippines in November 2007. Tsering Yangzom from Kollegal Tibetan settlement, south India, was the First runner-up.
Thomas C. Laird (born June 30, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and photographer who specializes in Tibet. [1] [2]Laird divides his time between New Orleans and Kathmandu, Nepal, where he lived for 30 years. [3]
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
Most of the Tibetan Changtang is now protected by means of nature reserves consisting of the Chang Tang Nature Reserve, the second-largest nature reserve in the world, and four new adjoining smaller reserves totalling 496,000 km 2 (191,507 sq. miles) of connected Nature Reserves, which represents an area almost as large as Spain and bigger than ...
Started in 1975, the contest celebrates the beauty of images taken through a light microscope. Scientists and hobbyists alike enter, and the winner receives a $3,000 prize.
Each year, thousands of wedding photographers from around the world submit their most impactful images to Junebug Weddings' Best of the Best Wedding Photography Contest. From quiet, intimate ...
Tibetan wearing the typical hat operating a quern to grind fried barley. The perpendicular handle of such rotary handmills works as a crank (1938 photo). Tibet is rich in culture. Tibetan festivals such as Losar, Shoton, Linka, and the Bathing Festival are deeply rooted in indigenous religion and also contain foreign influences. Each person ...