A very informative presentation about the history and current situation of Tibet created by the Tibet Hope Center in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, North India.
4. 1904 - Dalai Lama flees British military expedition under Colonel Francis
Younghusband. Britain forces Tibet to sign trading agreement in order to
forestall any Russian overtures.
1913 - Tibet reasserts independence after decades of rebuffing attempts by
Britain and China to establish control.
1949 - Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China
and threatens Tibet with "liberation".
1950 - China enforces a long-held claim to Tibet. The Dalai Lama, now aged
15, officially becomes head of state.
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7. 1951 - Tibetan leaders are forced to sign a treaty dictated by China. The
treaty, known as the "Seventeen Point Agreement", professes to guarantee
Tibetan autonomy and to respect the Buddhist religion, but also allows the
establishment of Chinese civil and military headquarters at Lhasa.
1954 - The Dalai Lama visits Beijing for talks with Mao, but China still fails to
honour the Seventeen Point Agreement.
1959 March - Full-scale uprising breaks out in Lhasa. Thousands are said to
have died during the suppression of the revolt. The Dalai Lama and most of
his ministers flee to northern India, to be followed by some 80,000 other
Tibetans.
1963 - Foreign visitors are banned from Tibet.
8. 1965 - Chinese government establishes Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).
1966 - The Cultural Revolution reaches Tibet and results in the destruction of a
large number of monasteries and cultural artefacts.
1971 - Foreign visitors are again allowed to enter the country.
Late 1970s - End of Cultural Revolution leads to some easing of repression,
though large-scale relocation of Han Chinese into Tibet continues.
1980s - China introduces "Open Door" reforms and boosts investment while
resisting any move towards greater autonomy for Tibet.
1988 - China imposes martial law after riots break out.
1995 - The Dalai Lama names a six-year-old boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, as the
true reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in
Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese authorities place the boy under house arrest and
designate another six-year-old boy, Gyangchen Norbu, as their officially
sanctioned Panchen Lama.
9. Name: Jetsun Jamphel
Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe
Tenzin Gyatso,
14th Dalai Lama
D.O.B: 6 July 1935
Age:77
Current Designation: Spiritual
leader of Tibet
12. Water.
Due to Climate Change the water has become a vital resource for China.
Total surface water resources amount to 448.2 billion cubic meters, and
underground amount to 110.7 billion cubic meters in Tibet.
Many rivers are born in Tibet providing water to its neighbor countries. Being the
most important ones:
The Indus Tibet, India and Pakistan.
Ganges Tibet, India and Bangladesh.
The headwaters of the Mekong (Lancang Jiang), Yangtze (Chang Jiang), and Huang He (Yellow
River). Tibet, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam
Golden Sand - Yangtze River Tibet and China
An many others.
13. Energy resources.
Hydro
•Approximately 200 million kilowatts of natural hydro energy annually, or about
30 percent of China's total.
Wind energy
•93 billion kilowatt-hours (ranking Tibet as the seventh in all China)
Solar
•One of the top global locations for such power (being China's greatest potential
for such energy).
Geothermal
•More than 100 sites have good geothermal energy reserves.
•Tibet's geothermal heat discharge adds up to 550,000 kilocalories per
second, equivalent to annual heat generation by 2.4 million tons of standard
coal.
14. Mineral
The total value of Tibet's minerals is estimated at £64.8bn by the Chinese
government.
More than 100 varieties of mineral have been found in Tibet. Among them:
Chromites; the largest reserves in China, covering a total area of 2,500 sq m (965 sq
miles) and totaling approximately to 10 million tons.
Lithium carbonate; discovered in the Shigatse Region has the world's second richest
salt lake brine resource.
Also, it can be found out others such as Copper (30m-40m tons), High-grade iron ore
(more than a billion tons), Zinc (more than 40m tons), Lead (more than 40m
tons), conundrum, boron and isinglass, etc.
15. Flora
An area of 7,170,000 hectares (27,683 sq miles) of virgin forests.
Vast number of plant species (more than 5,000 different species of higher plants,
more than 1000 kinds of medicinal herbs, including 300 kinds of rare Tibetan
herbs and 70 kinds of plants with sugar and starch content, which can be
processed into raw materials for drugs, textiles, and for making paper and wine).
16. Fauna
118 species of mammals, 473 of birds, 49 of reptiles, 44 of amphibians and 61 of
fishes can be found in Tibet.
More than 25% of all insect's types of the world live in Tibet (more than 2.300).
Home of rare animals such as panda, chorus, kiangs, wild yaks
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18. Over one million Tibetans have been killed (…and sadly, still
counting), including nearly 100,000 Tibetans tortured to death.
More than 6.000 Tibetan monasteries destroyed.
Nuclear testing been done in the Tibetan plateau.
25 percent of Tibet's forests are clear-cut.
5 billion tons of soil to be lost to erosion every year (due to this
rapid deforestation)
China currently has at least 300 to 400 nuclear warheads in
Tibet
19. Chinese sterilization gangs, being paid according to a bonus
system, roams the country and indiscriminately sterilizing
Tibetan women and borting their babies, regardless whether or
not they, have had children.
In 2010, a mass sterilization campaign of nearly 10,000 women
were to sterilization in Guangdong (Tibet)
Existence of a slave labour complex in Xining.
Political prisoners suffer a range of major human rights abuses
(inmates being weakened by hunger, cold, torture and long
beatings) .
Currently there are 200,000 Chinese and 100,000 Tibetans living
in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital.
25. Write petitions to your local and national government
Become the members of Tibetan NGOs
Give talk on Tibet
Organize Events
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28. For as long as the sky remains
blue, Tibet will never be part of China.
But it is possible that
China might become part of Tibet
Thank you/thuk-je-chey