Ngari

The government has also touted the economic development it has brought to Tibet, including a new rail line linking Lhasa to Beijing, and a fourth civilian airport that opened this year in Ngari, in the far western part of the autonomous region.

Rights group: China used force at Tibetan protests 2010

Last time when I went to Tibet in 1997 - after my graduation - I was arrested by the Chinese authorities, beaten up, interrogated, starved and finally thrown out of Tibet after keeping me in their jails for three months in Lhasa and Ngari.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

Sang-gyay Lama found them in a temple and in nearby rocks in Ngari.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

Although some traditional Tibetan sources date the founding of Nartang at 1033 and ascribe its founding to the Kadam master Tumton Lodro-drag (gTum-ston Blo-gros grags), this is anachronistic, since Atisha first arrived in Ngari only in 1042.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

The Qarluqs were a Turkic group living northwest of Ngari.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

For example, Zhalu Monastery (Zha-lu dgon-pa, Zhva-lu dgon-pa) had been built in Tsang in 1040 by Chetsun Sherab-jungnay (lCe-btsun Shes-rab ‘byung-gnas), two years before Atisha’s arrival in Ngari.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

During the second half of the tenth century, the King of Ngari, Tsenpo Khorey (bTsan-po Kho-re), abdicated his throne in favor of his brother, Song-ngey (Srong-nge), and became a monk.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

During the first half of the twelfth century, Ngari was ruled by a line of non-Tibetan tribal people, the Khasas, who followed Buddhism to a much less degree.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 19 Twelfth-Century Developments in Central Asia 2006

Kangra to Ngari in western Tibet that in the 1020s its king passed a law restricting foreigners from staying in the country more than three years.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs 2006

Qocho Uighurs, and Ngari Tibetans, all of whom were strongly Buddhist and militarily weak.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs 2006