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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"tibetan"”.
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Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora
… of a legacy of exotification of Tibet and Tibetans, Tibetan studies scholars have argued for a certain instrumental internalisation of romantic Western portrayals by Tibetans. Exemplifying this perspective, Lopez worries that Tibetans have been forced to perpetuate limiting orientalist …
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Programmed emptiness : research infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau
… people, and goods, but not actually modern, as Tibetans have generally been forced to the sidelines in the development of Tibet, serving more as indigenous tourist attractions than active participants in the shaping of a modern culture. The resulting condition is a present day state that is at …
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Lamas and Followers: Doing Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Chengdu
… thesis investigates the contemporary practice of Tibetan Buddhism in Chengdu, a major Han Chinese populated city in southwestern China. Rather than viewing Tibetan Buddhism as a tradition passively received or consumed by Han Chinese, this ethnographic study examines how Chengdu-based followers …
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Argumentation and Understanding: A Study of Tibetan Religious Debate
… doctrines. It does so by examining the way Tibetan monastic students and teachers use traditional methods of debate of the dGe lugs pa sect to interpret Buddhist scriptures. The fieldwork for this study was done with Tibetan refugees in Nepal, India, and the United States.
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Site-specific modelling of turbulent fluxes on the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau attracts attention in recent decades due to its influence on the East-Asian Monsoon and regional hydrology. Therefore estimates of the regional energy and water balance have come into the focus, utilising remote sensing and regional model approaches, but such attempts require …
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… examines the media use in the spreading of Tibetan nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere, the struggling land of national politics situated between the two power centres of China and the exiled Tibet. For individual Tibetans on the ground, the small pieces and specific details in everyday …
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Sexual Behavior of Immature Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
<p>Tibetan macaque sociosexual behavior begins in infancy, and comprises many of their initial interactions with other group members as infants. Tibetan macaques possess a large sociosexual behavioral repertoire, including a behavior called bridging, which involves infants and juveniles, and is …
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Approaches to studying online communication in diaspora groups the Tibetan case
University of Minnesota M.A. thesis. August 2012. Major: Mass Communication. Advisor: Giovanna Dell’Orto. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 107 pages.
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Aquatic macrophyte-derived biomarkers as palaeolimnological proxies on the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is the largest elevated landmass in the world and profoundly influences atmospheric circulation patterns such as the Asian monsoon system. Therefore this area has been increasingly in focus of palaeoenvironmental studies. This thesis evaluates the applicability of organic …
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Teleseismic tomography beneath Hi-CLIMB station array in western Tibetan Plateau
… the Hi-climb station array in mid-western Tibetan Plateau (TP), thus to understand the deformation scheme of the Indian-Eurasian collision. The Hi-Climb seismic array, which includes 75 seismic stations, was collecting data from late 2002 to 2005. It forms a nearly linear shape extending …
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The female quest for enlightenment: Compassion and patience in transforming gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism, with specific reference to Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
… thesis investigates the nature of gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism and the specific role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the …
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Reconstructing climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau : comparing aquatic and terrestrial signals
… temperature and moisture patterns across the Tibetan Plateau are very complex. The onset and magnitude of the Holocene climate optimum in the Asian monsoon realm, in particular, is a subject of considerable debate as this time period is often used as an analogue for recent global warming. In …
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Exile, transnational connections, and the construction of identity : Tibetan immigrants in Montreal
… the processes through which a small group of Tibetans in Montreal constructs a sense of community identity in exile. I argue that membership in the extended, transnational organization, the Tibet Movement, provides the framework within which these processes take place. The incorporation of …
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Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques
… kinship and social play duration in juvenile Tibetan macaques.</p> <p>Chapter I provides a general introduction and addresses current and past literature on the behavior, ecology and play among macaque genera and Tibetan macaques within this study. I review the fitness benefits of play …
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A "stupendous attraction" : materialising a Tibetan Buddhist contact zone in rural Australia
… responses towards the transplantation of a Tibetan temple into a rural Australian locale. The complex and shifting relationships between different kinds of Buddhism feature in relation to different ideas about the value of holy objects. The FPMT conforms to the enlightenment-oriented ideals …
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The Tibetan lam-rim genre : a comparative study focussing on five representative texts
… major texts belonging to the lam-rim genre of Tibetan Buddhist literature. Although a few works from within this important genre have been translated into western languages, there has hitherto been no attempt to study the genre as a whole or to compare any of the diverse works found within it. …
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Teacher learning in a Tibetan school in exile: A community of practice perspective
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