The Expeditioner Travel Magazine » tibet http://www.theexpeditioner.com The Expeditioner is a travel magazine for the avid traveler. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:27:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Road To Tibet: Crossing The Friendship Highway http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/09/14/the-road-to-tibet-crossing-the-friendship-highway/ http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/09/14/the-road-to-tibet-crossing-the-friendship-highway/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:00:57 +0000 Maria Russo http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=8551 Tibet’s history is a complicated story of spirituality, invasion, conquest, and persecution. Once a Buddhist nation governed by the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s religious identity was brutally stripped away in 1951 when Chinese troops forcibly occupied the region, destroying monasteries and killing thousands of civilians. In 1959 the Dalai Lama fled [...]

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