Tibetan surgeons claimed 1000 years ahead of the West
Tibetan surgeons knew surgical procedures as complicated as craniotomy as early as the eighth century, about 10 centuries before their western counterparts. According to China View, a book called Four Volumes of Medicine
India readies for talks with China, Tibetans wary
India’s government will have its first top-level contact with China since taking office in May, when a new round of talks on their dragging border dispute starts Monday, but experts warn against high expectations.
India and China hold border talks
India and China have begun a new round of talks in Delhi on their long running border dispute. The two-days talks are being held between the Indian National Security Adviser, JN Dixit, and his Chinese counterpart, Dai Bingguo.
Work on Qinghai, Lhasa railway line under way
The glorious isolation of Tibet is set to diminish further with the first train expected to chug its way to the top of the world in 2006. Work on the 1000-km Qinghai-Lhasa railway line is going on at a feverish pitch and the track has already reached the Tibet plateau at Arduo in the Nagu prefecture.
In this holy city, Shah Rukh and Aishwarya rule
Look as hard as you like in Lhasa, but you won’t find a photo or even a remote likeness of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s most important leader. Instead, in the heart of the holy city, in the ‘parikrama’ of the Jokhang monastery called the Barkhor, there are posters of Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai
DELHI-NAMA:Dateline Lhasa
Beijing emphatically rejects the idea of a special deal with Tibet, on the lines of the “One country, Two systems” compromise that Beijing has undertaken with Hong Kong and Macao.