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What does Tibetan mean?
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Tibetan

A Tibetan is a native or inhabitant of Tibet. A Tibetan is a person of Tibetan ancestry.

Tibetan

of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language Tibetan monks Himalayish language spoken in Tibet a native or inhabitant of Tibet

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Simple sentences

Tibetan rug weavers use traditional designs and knotting. Hence their rugs have a simple, natural look.

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Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
He begged and fought, pushing forward to the Tibetan frontier.
He could still have been a bloody Tibetan.
You don't give a Tibetan a German alias. if you want him to be able to visit a bank inconspicuously. and draw out large sums of money!
The Tibetan lamas have used it for 3,000 years.
Never insult Tibetan martial arts.
Tibetan arts.
He used to be my guru. And then I got into Tibetan Buddhism. so that I wouldn't see him, but he keeps coming around for a massage.
A couple of refugee Tibetan monks setting up a lamasery in darkest mummerset?
I was into heavy Tibetan meditation for two years, you Jimbo!
One of those Tibetan demons Cho-je warned us about?
You speak Tibetan?
Our Tibetan Lama Clan don't want to get involved in the fight between the Court and Shaolin, goodbye.
This hemo-gauge and that exercise. was invented in a monastery by a couple of Tibetan monks.
Thus we had to try entering the Tibetan highlands through India.
Beggars and nomads from the Tibetan plains came over to us and became our friends.
They savor the tsamba, the Tibetan national dish.
A courier from the Tibetan government appears.
On an arduous cliff hill there can be found a house from the earliest Tibetan people. As the legend goes there lived a creature by the cross breeding of an ape and a devil-woman.
Throughout his life the Tibetan is constantly acquainted with the visual nature of these ghosts through masks, murals and temple adornments.
Serving their time in India the Tibetan army officers learned all about precision and the modern art of warfare.
The wool of Tibetan sheep and goats is a much sought-after commodity at markets in the neighbouring countries because of its density and robustness.
One of the most frequently seen Tibetan images is the age-old Indo-Aryan sign of the swastika which for the Tibetans means imperishable fortune.
We summon all our knowledge of Asian courtesy and Tibetan etiquette in order to not violate any basic acts of courtesy.
This is some correspondence I've been having with Tanggye, a Tibetan. And the Abbe Delville in Louvain. It's on the theory of numbers.
The Master speaks only Tibetan. I will translate.
It's in Tibetan.
In the pursuit of Laura's killer, I have employed Bureau guidelines, deductive technique, Tibetan method, instinct and luck.
A Tibetan chant, perhaps.
The first Tibetan king to be touched by the dharma was King Hathatha Rignamputsan.
In 1959, after a Tibetan uprising against the Chinese, the Dalai Lama fled to India and has lived in exile ever since.
The Tibetan astrologer.
Tibetan monks.
In Tibetan Buddhism, we believe that everybody is reborn, again and again.
It's an old Tibetan habit.
I can't believe you'd be this upset over four harmless, little Tibetan monks.
Oh, that's my Tibetan look!
What are you saying? That you've suddenly started to believe. Jesse is this Tibetan lama?
Gita was chanting prayers in Tibetan, saying things I couldn't understand.
She was speaking Tibetan in her sleep?

News and current affairs

These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture.
Vajpayee's blunder compounded Nehru's 1954 mistake in implicitly accepting, in the Panchsheel Treaty, China's annexation of Tibet, without securing (or even seeking) recognition of the then-existing Indo-Tibetan border.
The colorful Tibetan district was cordoned off.
Still, there is no question that Tibetan towns are now more modern - in terms of electrification, education, hospitals, and other public facilities - than they were before.
So are people wrong to support the Tibetan cause?
The issue is not so much Tibetan culture, or spirituality, or even national independence, but political consent.
No Chinese citizen, regardless of whether he or she is Han, Tibetan, Uighur, or Mongolian, can vote the ruling party out of power.
It has jammed Voice of America broadcasts since June 1989 and in the spring of 2001 began jamming Tibetan-, Uighur-, and Kazakh-language broadcasts from India and Central Asia.
But it may also explain why one self-immolation in Tunisia helped to kindle the Arab Spring, whereas some three dozen self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns have failed to ignite a similar popular movement against the Chinese state.
These latest verdicts are the first death sentences meted out by Chinese courts to those who took part in protests that swept Lhasa and other Tibetan cities in the spring of 2008.
On one hand, some international media painted a black-and-white (and not always entirely objective) portrait of the March violence as a brutal Chinese crackdown on peaceful Tibetan monks.
China's heavy floods in recent years are partly the result, it seems, of the excessive melting of mountain snows on the Tibetan Plateau, which was caused by higher temperatures.
Indeed, it is impossible to imagine China's leaders approving a loan to a country that, say, recognizes Taiwan or accepts Tibetan claims to independence.
China has not fared too badly, largely because its government was forced by the Burmese example, bad publicity surrounding the Tibetan demonstrations, and the impending Olympic Games to allow far more freedom of information than it normally does.
Many carried the forbidden Tibetan national flag, suggesting that they think of Tibet as a separate country in the past, and in about 20 incidents government offices were burned down.
In November, Chinese officials, live on national TV, ridiculed Tibetan exiles' proposals for negotiation.
All sides would gain by paying attention to two Tibetan officials in China who dared to speak out last month.
And it could start reassessing its Tibetan policies instead of increasing controls and allegations.
Fast approaching is not only the March anniversary of last year's disturbances in Tibet, but also the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan unrest in 1959 that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his supporters.
Much to the consternation of the Western media, Chinese people worldwide lashed out against its allegedly biased coverage of the Tibetan riot.
The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti-Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India.
CHENGDU - Last month saw the 50th anniversary of what Tibetan activists like to call Tibetan National Uprising Day, the day in 1959 when Tibetans in Lhasa revolted against Chinese Communist Party rule.
The Chinese press, however, marked the anniversary with effusive articles describing Tibetan joy at being liberated from centuries of feudalism and slavery.
But if Chinese propaganda paints too dark a picture of the Tibetan past, Westerners who sympathize with the Tibetan cause are often too sentimental.
Six decades of ruthless repression has failed to win China acceptance even in Tibet and Xinjiang, as the Tibetan and Uighur revolts of 2008 and 2009 attested.

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