Standard Tibetan, along with Mandarin Chinese, is an officiallanguage of theTibet Autonomous Regionof the People’s Republic of China. Some schools in Tibet teach all subjects in Chinese, especially in areas where most students are ethnic Chinese. There are also schools where Standard Tibetan is ...
The dissertation seeks to contribute to the understanding of Tantric Buddhism by a systematic treatment of its path to Enlightenment and by a detailed analysis of the Tantrayana in its relationship to the H(')inayana and Mahayana forms of Buddhism.^ Tantric Buddhism, one of the final phases of...
On the other hand, in the case of the northwestern crescent, the trade system consisted of the following three sectors: (1) the tribute trade sector: tribute trade conducted by the Mongols, the Jurchens, some states in Central Asia, the monasteries in Tibet and tribal chieftains in the sout...
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where Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent, fish are one of the main animals released in religious activities. In recent years, with the development of society and the economy, an increasing number of fish have been sold in the market, and fish have gradually become one of the main objects of relea...