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These include a controversial $1.2 billion project to build the world's highest dam, in Tibet, on the Yarlung Zangbo River, which is due to be completed in 2014.
China Outlines Energy Goals Simon Hall 2011
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India's Brahmaputra river, known in China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, is a lifeline that provides irrigation and hydroelectric power for several Indian states and Bangladesh.
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India's Brahmaputra river, known in China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, is a lifeline that provides irrigation and hydroelectric power for several Indian states and Bangladesh.
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The Zhang-zhung princess brought with her to the Yarlung court many aspects of Bon culture.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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Supposedly, then, Tri Desongtsen (Khri lde-srong-btsan), more widely known as Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po), the thirty-second Yarlung king, ascended the throne only four generations after Lhatotori Nyentsen.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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From the time of the eighth Yarlung king, Drigum Tsenpo (Gri-gum btsan-po), however, there are tombs and so, in a sense, Tibetan history begins here.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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According to the traditional account, the first king of the Yarlung Dynasty (Yar-klungs) in Central Tibet came there from the central North Indian kingdom of Magadha.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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It had eighteen kings before the first Yarlung ruler, Nyatri Tsenpo.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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Songtsen-gampo purportedly used the new script for a translation he commissioned of a Sanskrit Buddhist text that had reached Yarlung as a gift from India two centuries earlier.
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It consisted of opponents to the imperial rule at Yarlung who were motivated by reasons of power politics.
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