Seven years in Tibet.HONG KONG--When Americans hear of Tibet, they tend to think of the internationally publicized plight of Tibetan Buddhists and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, , who have endured decades of oppression by the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Chinese province of Yunnan. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a letter to Faith, Hong Kong's weekly Catholic newspaper, from Father Lawrence Lu Rendi, the only priest of Tibetan origin, the number of Catholics in the southeastern Tibetan city of Yanjing--which has a 200-year history of Catholicism---has grown from 5,000 to 6,500 since 1986, when the Chinese government reopened worship. Seventy percent of these Catholics are young people. Lu, who is only 28 years old, also ministers to the approximately 3,000 Tibetan Catholics scattered throughout Yunnan. |
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