Trouble in Tibet: China mounts a new campaign against the Dalai Lama and Tibetan culture.(Special Report)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: February 10, 1997 | Copyright information

Even in your wildest thoughts, you might find it difficult to imagine a country where

* the lowest points are higher than the highest mountains in nearly every other country;

* until recently more than one in five males out of a population of 2.3 million was a monk in a monastery;

* people worship a god-king who is said to have died and been reborn in a new body 14 times over the course of a thousand years;

* there are no railroads and almost no cars;

* people love to drink a bitter tea flavored with rotten butter.

This is the strange and remote land of ...

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