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__**§ Dalai Lama § **__
 *  Means- the ocean supreme teacher.
 * There have been 14- reincarnations of Buddha so far.
 * They search for young boys that were born on the same day as the Dalai Lama before them died.
 * The current Dalai Lama is 73 now.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">He has been in hiding for over 50 years, because he is against <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">China's communism.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">His real name is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**__§ Tibet / China §__** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">__**What China is doing**__
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The capital of China is Beijing.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The capital of Tibet is Lhasa.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The first contacts between Tibetans and Chinese took place in the 7th century- back then they were both equal in strength/size.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">In the 12th century, the Buddists fleed to Tibet and introduced Buddhisum.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">In the early 50's China invaded Tibet so the Dalai Lama fled- he was 18 years old.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">All of the slaves were freed.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">China and Tibet signed a treaty and made up 29 rules.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The Dalai Lama went over to India to work with India to improve Tibet and India -India wanted him to stay.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">In 1959, China killed about 1.2 million Tibetans.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">There are around about 120,000 monks in Tibet.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tibet has a population of 2.3 million.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The Chinese national day is the 1st of October.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The Chinese Currency is the Yuan.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The population of China is 1,306,313,800.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The chinese average life expectancy is 71.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The population of China has gone up 788044605 in 59 years
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The size of Tibet is 2.5 million sq. km
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The national flag is the Snow Lion
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The highest mountain is Mount Everest (Chomo Langma)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tibet's average altitude is 14,000 feet.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tibet means heaven.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Currency Chinese yuan.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Buddha was first created by Siddharla Gautama.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> __**§ Beijing §**__ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> media type="custom" key="846219"
 * Some of the toys that are labelled Made in China are made with forced labour. The glue to stick the toys together is bad for your eyes and therfore are blinding Tibetans.
 * Tibetins are fleeing to India over the Himalayas but Chinese are shooting them when they try. But people would rather take the risk than live where there are Chinese.
 * About 200,000 Tibetans live in exile.
 * Han Chinese make up over half of the population of Tibet.
 * The oil in Tibet is worth about 4 trillion pounds
 * In Tibet, there is 1 police for every 20 Tibetans but in China, there is 1 for every 1400.
 * There was 6 million Tibetans but now there is about 5 million as the Chinese have killed over 1 million.
 * People have been arrested for drawing the Tibetan flag.
 * One man got sent to prison for three years, for writing free Tibet in his diary!
 * Some Tibetans are so poor that they have to steal food from the Chinese.
 * 90% of Tibetans in Tibet live on farms but the land is getting taken off them.
 * Beijing means 'The northern capital'.
 * The population is near 15 million.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Was called 'Ji'.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">It has been destroyed in 1215 and 1267 but was re built.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">500 famous universities -about 70% of students are f<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">oreigners.