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  • Up front was the desk where the nice old lady, Miss Watriss, purple-stamped your books, but down off away were Tibet and Antarctica, the Congo.†   (source)
  • He went to Tibet to meet the Dalai Lama.†   (source)
  • Once, for example, Gordon picked up on the fact that trendsetters were developing a sudden interest in Tibet and the Dalai Lama.†   (source)
  • He was thirteen years older than I. I didn't really know him when I was growing up, because I was only four years old when, in August 1965, he left for Tibet.†   (source)
  • Mortenson took his tea, then washed with a bucket of cold water and the last bit of the Tibet Snow brand soap he'd been rationing all week.†   (source)
  • Burma or Tibet if we can find passage.†   (source)
  • For Social Studies I do a project on Tibet, where there are prayer wheels and reincarnation and women have two husbands, and for Science I do different kinds of seeds.†   (source)
  • The great monastery in Tibet.†   (source)
  • I think I'm in Tibet.†   (source)
  • And those other drugs that do almost as much for us; some kids go Earthside to school now; And Tibet catapult—took seventeen years instead of ten; Kilimanjaro job was finished sooner.†   (source)
  • Such piles of stone are found, too, on the high passes of Tibet, and in Mongolia.†   (source)
  • First, we would probably not even get into Tibet.†   (source)
  • But then, in 1981, the Chinese government suddenly changed its policy toward Tibet.†   (source)
  • Early visitors, casting about for suitably romantic names, dubbed it "Tibet of the Apricots.†   (source)
  • How can we lose him so soon after we have lost your big brother to Tibet?†   (source)
  • On his descent, Bishop would nearly slide off a ledge all the way to Tibet.†   (source)
  • He too wanted to go to Tibet, but my parents refused.†   (source)
  • I've tried so hard to convince them both about Tibet and my marriage.†   (source)
  • All Chinese living and working in Tibet were ordered to return to their home province.†   (source)
  • "Ever since your big brother wrote from Tibet a few months ago," she replied.†   (source)
  • Tibet is the only opportunity I have to do something with my life.†   (source)
  • His journey to Tibet, riding buses, trains and horses, would have taken him more than a week.†   (source)
  • Have we seen a single fen from your big brother in Tibet?†   (source)
  • Why won't our parents listen to me and let me go to Tibet?†   (source)
  • The last I had heard, Tibet was in the hands of unfriendly peace-lovers.†   (source)
  • Wizard of Oz and Save Tibet posters.†   (source)
  • We can hike through Tibet.†   (source)
  • Another reason why I think of Tibet.†   (source)
  • I cut around the back of another bump and saw that the ridge ahead dropped away and we could see far into Tibet.†   (source)
  • This is not Tibet.†   (source)
  • Dying is an art in Tibet.†   (source)
  • He is saying many times, acting like crazy man, so I tie him on rope, quickly, otherwise he is jumping down into Tibet.†   (source)
  • Tenzing became a national hero throughout India, Nepal, and Tibet, each of which claimed him as one of their own.†   (source)
  • g 6:00 A.M. in Nepal is 8:15 in Tibet.†   (source)
  • Sherpas are a mountain people, devoutly Buddhist whose forebears migrated south from Tibet four or five centuries ago.†   (source)
  • He hatched a scheme to fly a small airplane to Tibet, crash -land it on the flanks of Everest, and proceed to the summit from there.†   (source)
  • But in early May, we hoped, the approach of the monsoon from the Bay of Bengal would force the jet stream north into Tibet.†   (source)
  • Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a three-sided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.†   (source)
  • "Well," I told Den "man, we must try" As the small expedition marched across Tibet toward Everest, the two Sherpas increasingly came to like and respect the Canadian.†   (source)
  • The Western Cum, pronounced koom, was named by George Leigh Mallory, who first saw it during the initial Everest expedition of 1921 from the Lho La, a high pass on the border between Nepal and Tibet.†   (source)
  • In 1949, after centuries of inaccessibility, Nepal opened it borders to the outside world, and a year later the new Communist regime in China closed Tibet to foreigners.†   (source)
  • Continuing his quest to ascend all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks, in September Boukreev traveled to Tibet and climbed both Clio Oyu and 26,291-foot Shisha Pangma.†   (source)
  • Clocks in Tibet are set to reflect the Beijing time zone, which is two hours and fifteen minutes ahead of the Nepal time zone e. g 6:00 A.M. in Nepal is 8:15 in Tibet.†   (source)
  • Farming is difficult in the high, cold, steep-walled valleys, so the traditional Sherpa economy revolved around trading between Tibet and India, and herding yaks.†   (source)
  • The nearly constant hurricane blowing through the Col in early spring explains why it remains as naked rock and ice even when deep snow blankets adjacent slopes: everything not frozen in place here has been blasted into Tibet.†   (source)
  • Eric Shipton, in 1938 Upon That Mountain Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.†   (source)
  • But those first nine expeditions embarked for Tibet from Darjeeling, where many Sherpas had emigrated, and where they had developed a reputation among the resident colonialists for being hardworking, affable, and intelligent.†   (source)
  • What the Nepalese ministers didn't take into consideration, however, was that China charged only $15,000 to allow a team of any size to climb the mountain from Tibet and placed no limit on the number of expeditions each season.†   (source)
  • Because the Kingdom of Nepal kept its borders closed until 1949, the initial Everest reconnaissance, and the next eight expeditions to follow, were forced to approach the mountain from the north, through Tibet, and never passed anywhere near the Khumbu.†   (source)
  • When Groom looked in the other direction, however-down the north side of the ridgethrough the billowing snow and faltering light he noticed a lone climber badly off route: it was Martin Adams, who'd become disoriented in the storm and mistakenly started to descend the Kangshung Face into Tibet.†   (source)
  • He flew to Purtabpore, India, but having not received permission from the Nepalese government to fly over Nepal, he sold the airplane for five hundred pounds and traveled overland to Darjeeling, where he learned that he had been denied permission to enter Tibet.†   (source)
  • In March 1947, a poverty-stricken Canadian engineer named Earl Denman arrived in Darjeeling and announced his intention to climb Everest, despite the fact that he had little mountaineering experience and lacked official permission to enter Tibet.†   (source)
  • Leaving their high camp at 27,230 feet as a party of six, the Ladakhis did not get away from their tents until 5:45 A.M.* By midafternoon, still more than a thousand vertical feet below the top, they To avoid confusion, all times quoted in this chapter have been converted to Nepal time, even though the events I describe occurred in Tibet.†   (source)
  • Roughly rect angular in shape, about four football fields long by two across, the Col's eastern margin drops 7,000 feet down the Kangshung Face into Tibet; the other side plunges 4,000 feet to the Western Cum. just back from the lip of this chasm, at the Col's westernmost edge, the tents of Camp Four squatted on a patch of barren ground surrounded by more than a thousand discarded oxygen canisters.†   (source)
  • Sandy Pittman had noted this superstition in a diary entry from her 1994 expedition posted on the Internet in 1996: April 29, 1994 Everest Base camp (17,800 feet), The xangshung Face, Tibet a mail runner had arrived that afternoon and a with letters from home for everyone girlie magazine which had been sent by a carback home as a joke… climber buddy Half of the Sherpa had taken it to a tent for closer inspection, while the others fretted over the disaster they were certain that any…†   (source)
  • Gordon's research showed that Innovator kids were heavily into the Dalai Lama and all of the very serious issues raised by the occupation of Tibet.†   (source)
  • The influential rap band Beastie Boys were very publicly putting money into the Free Tibet campaign, and were bringing monks on stage at their concerts to give testimonials.†   (source)
  • Mortenson put his pack down on the bed, careful not to jar Hoerni's brittle-looking legs, mountaineer's legs that had carried him on a circuit around Mount Kailash in Tibet only a year earlier.†   (source)
  • As load after load of cement and sheets of sturdy four-ply passed by an increasingly enthusiastic Changazi, Mortenson unwrapped the fresh bar of Tibet Snow soap his host provided.†   (source)
  • Isabella Bird, an intrepid species of female explorer who could only have been produced by Victorian England, documented the difficulty of traveling from the plains of the Indian subcontinent into Baltistan, or "Little Tibet" as she referred to it, during her 1876 journey.†   (source)
  • The Balti had originally migrated southwest from Tibet, via Ladakh, more than six hundred years ago, and their Buddhism had been scoured away as they traveled over the rocky passes and replaced by a religion more attuned to the severity of their new landscape—Shiite Islam.†   (source)
  • His mother-in-law Lila Bishop's house became another of Mortenson's havens, especially its basement, where he would spend hours poring over Barry Bishop's mountaineering library, reading about the Balti migration out of Tibet, or studying a rare bound volume of the exquisite black-and-white plates of K2 and its accompanying peaks that Vittorio Sella shot on his large-format camera with the duke of Abruzzi's 1909 expedition.†   (source)
  • He had worked hard and been promoted to the head of the Communist Youth Party in the Tibet Post Office.†   (source)
  • Couldn't he send money back from Tibet?†   (source)
  • Cuncia had spent over sixteen years in Tibet, one of many Red Guards who had responded to Mao's calling.†   (source)
  • My eldest brother was home from Tibet.†   (source)
  • Why can't you let me go to Tibet?†   (source)
  • I had heard about the central government wanting more young men to go to Tibet, and Big Brother Cuncia had suggested to our parents that Cunyuan should go.†   (source)
  • The central government called for hundreds of thousands of young people to go to Tibet to help advance the government's political agenda: they wanted people like my brother to influence Tibetan culture in the dominant Mandarin way.†   (source)
  • He is still in Tibet ….†   (source)
  • A place called Tibet.†   (source)
  • I eat a persimmon and the teeth of a tinker in Tibet are put on edge.†   (source)
  • It's not easy to judge, but probably some part of Tibet.†   (source)
  • Tantric symbolism was carried by medieval Buddhism out of India into Tibet, China, and Japan.†   (source)
  • She went on: "I once knew a missionary who had been to Tibet.†   (source)
  • Bodhisattva (temple banner, Tibet, nineteenth century A.D.).†   (source)
  • Merely that we are in Tibet, which is obvious.†   (source)
  • If these are the Karakorams, Tibet lies beyond.†   (source)
  • My dear fellow, I never got into Tibet at all.†   (source)
  • And now you're flying from India to Tibet instead," said Barnard.†   (source)
  • To him goes the millionfold-repeated prayer of the prayer wheels and temple gongs of Tibet: Om mani padme hum, "The jewel is in the lotus."†   (source)
  • ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL and beloved of the Bodhisattvas of the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet, China, and Japan is the Lotus Bearer, Avalokitegvara, "The Lord Looking Down in Pity," so called because he regards with compassion all sentient creatures suffering the evils of existence.†   (source)
  • The thunderbolt (vajra) is one of the major symbols in Buddhist iconography, signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlightenment) which shatters the illusory realities of the world Fhe Absolute, or Adi Buddha, is represented in the images of Tibet as Vajra-Dhara 'Tibetan: Dorje-Chang, "Holder of the Adamantine Bolt.†   (source)
  • There was a German professor at Jena about the middle of the last century who took to globe-trotting and visited Tibet in 1887.†   (source)
  • So you didn't find anything in Tibet?†   (source)
  • That chance remark of his gave me a curious idea, and I asked him when this meeting in Tibet had taken place.†   (source)
  • He was rather taken with this latest phenomenon, a Chinese who spoke perfect English and observed the social formalities of Bond Street amidst the wilds of Tibet.†   (source)
  • I guess you must be the official guide on this trip, Conway, and I'll admit that if I only had a flash of café cognac I wouldn't care if it's Tibet or Tennessee.†   (source)
  • Strolling about Tibet isn't a one-man job; it needs an expedition properly fitted out and run by someone who knows at least a word or two of the language.†   (source)
  • After I'd gone on questioning him for a time, he said: 'Frankly, I'm not keen on monasteries--indeed, I once told a fellow I met in Tibet that if I went out of my way at all, it would be to avoid them, not pay them a visit.'†   (source)
  • After all, man, you're a critical sort of person--you'd hesitate to believe all you were told even in an English monastery--I really can't see why you should jump at everything just because you're in Tibet!†   (source)
  • He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley; it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveler had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits.†   (source)
  • Perhaps even a return to England and Whitehall; deck games on the P. & O.; the flaccid palm of an under secretary; newspaper interviews; hard, mocking, sex-thirsty voices of women--"And is it really true, Mr. Conway, that when you were in Tibet ….†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, since the recent European War and the Russian Revolution, travel and exploration in Tibet have been almost completely held up; in fact, our last visitor, a Japanese, arrived in 1912, and was not, to be candid, a very valuable acquisition.†   (source)
  • A section which interested him particularly was devoted to Tibetiana, if it might be so called; he noticed several rarities, among them the Novo Descubrimento de grao catayo ou dos Regos de Tibet, by Antonio de Andrada (Lisbon, 1626); Athanasius Kircher's China (Antwerp, 1667); Thevenot's Voyage à la Chine des Pères Grueber et d'Orville; and Beligatti's Relazione Inedita di un Viaggio al Tibet.†   (source)
  • I've read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see," explained the man.†   (source)
  • In silence, as we do of Tibet, or speaking aloud?'†   (source)
  • Temperance, tolerance, and sexual equality were intelligible cries to them; whereas they did not follow our Forward Policy in Tibet with the keen attention that it merits, and would at times dismiss the whole British Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh.†   (source)
  • The McGanums said good-by as though they were going to Tibet instead of to the station to catch No. 7 north.†   (source)
  • In France or Tibet quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation.†   (source)
  • Didst hear of Bhotiyal [Tibet]?†   (source)
  • All Tibet is full of cheap reproductions of the Wheel; but the lama was an artist, as well as a wealthy Abbot in his own place.†   (source)
  • 'I was tempted to loose the bullet; and truly, in Tibet there would have been a heavy and a slow death for them ….†   (source)
  • He seemed to know these hills as well as he knew the hill dialects, and gave the lama the lie of the land towards Ladakh and Tibet.†   (source)
  • 'Welcome, then, O lama from Tibet.†   (source)
  • They be Hindus in Tibet, then?'†   (source)
  • The Seeker—he who had invited the lama to that haven from far-away Tibet, a silver-faced, hairless ascetic—took no part in it, but meditated, as always, alone among the images.†   (source)
  • 'A guru from Tibet,' said Kim.†   (source)
  • He comes from Tibet.'†   (source)
  • The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; turquoise and raw amber necklaces; green jade bangles; curiously packed incense-sticks in jars crusted over with raw garnets; the devil-masks of overnight and a wall full of peacock-blue draperies; gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; egg-shell china sets in quaint octagonal cane boxes; yellow ivory crucifixes—from…†   (source)
  • 'Where in Tibet?'†   (source)
  • The Lama of Tibet sent them a llama each.†   (source)
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