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Trip Highlight
Annapurna Circuit Trekking
Duration: 14 Days | Activities: Trekking
The most popular trekking area in Nepal is situated north of Pokhara. This trek offers some of the most dramatic close-up views of the tallest mountain peaks in the world. The abrupt variations in altitude. .. |
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The Majority of Tibet's population is Tibetan. Tibet is so thinly populated that it averages out 1.68 persons per sq.km. About 90 percent of the people live on farming and husbandry.
Buddhism is main religion since hundreds of years in Tibet, has unique form "Lamaism, Tibetan history, culture and religion are mixed together and infiltrated on every aspect of social life. Tibetan religious arts have a distinctive style with adoption of Indian and Chinese Buddhism. The Potala Palace is built on the top of a hill and penetrates its dome into the sky. It's the king of Tibetan architectural structures and it has wonderful sculptures, carvings, murals, & Thankas and skilled butter sculptures, and vast accumulation of historical monuments which form a kind of religious art which is developed into a school of Tibetan tradition.
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Languages
Tibetans have their own language, which is known as “bod-yig” in the Tibetan-inhabited areas with the meaning of “Tibetan language”. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. According to geographical divisions, it has three major local dialects: Weizang, Kang and Amdo. The first two dialects have their own tones in pronunciation while the latter don’t. Created in the early 7th century, the Tibetan language, a phonetic system of writing, was based on the writing system of the ancient Sanskrit language of India. Tibetan language consists of thirty consonant, four vowels, five inverted letters (for the renting of foreign words) and the punctuations. Sentences are written from right to the left. With two major written scripts namely the regular script and the cursive hand, Tibetan language is widely used in all areas inhabited by Tibetans.
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