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  • CRY OF THE SNOW LION brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an unprecedented richness of imagery… from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to the magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans.

    Tibet William Harryman 2007

  • For example, Ginsburgs and Mathos comment that "the March 1959 uprising did not, by and large, involve any considerable number of lower-class Tibetans, but involved essentially the propertied groups and the traditionally rebellious and foraging Khamba tribes opposed to any outside public authority (including sometimes that of the Dalai Lama)" (Pacific Affairs, September, 1959).

    The Responsibility of Intellectuals Dorfman, Arthur 1967

  • World War and the Chinese retreat into the interior brought many Chinese settlers into Eastern Tibet which was then separated from Tibet proper and made a Chinese province (Hsi-k'ang) in which the native Khamba will soon be a minority.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • We passed over the high pass into the southern valley of Thibet; we crossed that pass at 15,000 feet above sea level into the Chimney Valley, and reached the Thibetan plateau proper at a little place called Khamba Jong, which is on the trade route from Lhasa to India.

    The Assault on Everest 1928

  • Khamba mountains, a long blue range, which it is said divides the

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The Khamba leaders were bitterly opposed to any official of the Lhasa regime - except for the senior ministers, Surkhang and Yuthok, recently accompanying the Dalai Lama to Beijing, who were now isolated in Lhasa.

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  • Meanwhile, the Khamba revolt was sweeping westwards and creating panic among the Chinese military and officials, who were now starving as the single supply road from China was rendered inoperable in the Khamba advance.

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  • By mid-1958 it was estimated by the Tibetans that 20,000 Khamba rebels were approaching Lhasa.

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  • In India, the Dalai Lama's brother Gyalu Thondup was working in close collaboration with the CIA's Kenneth Khaus, and it was agreed to take six members of Andrutshang's Chu-zhi-Kang-tru to Taiwan and the USA to receive training in the use of radio transmitters, parachute-jumping and modern weapons, to fly back into Tibet secretly to aid the Khamba revolt.

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  • On March 10th, 1959, the Khamba revolt reached Lhasa.

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