Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Tibet, the Tibetans, or their language or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Tibet.
- noun A member of a traditionally Buddhist people constituting the predominant ethnic population of Tibet and neighboring regions in China, Bhutan, and Nepal, with large displaced populations in India.
- noun The Tibeto-Burman language of the Tibetans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Tibet (or Thibet), a dependency of China, situated north of India.
- noun A native of Tibet.
- noun The language of Tibet. It belongs to the monosyllabic or southeastern Asiatic family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
Tibet , the Tibetan people, culture, or language. - noun A native of
Tibet - proper noun A language of
Tibet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Himalayish language spoken in Tibet
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language
- noun a native or inhabitant of Tibet
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Examples
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DALAI LAMA, EXILED TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER: Meeting with the president politically, meeting with an American president, usually I have something of an agenda, obviously about the Tibetan issue.
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Having studied sanskrit script, prakrit scripts, and tibetan script I am more of a proficient in writing systems than in spoken language, I agree that Lepcha script is more rightly emanated from Tibetan script than from the Mongolian.
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But if you look at the over all protest through out Tibet including those tibetan region which are now not in so called Tibet Autonomous region (25-30 different localities even in the remote village) People from all works of live has protested with Tibetan national flag not with guns or sword eventhough many own guns.
Techdirt 2009
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China set up a "migration program" bringing Chinese people into Tibet, so that the tibetan people would be the ethnic minority. they also use some parts of tibet as a dumping land for their waste and subjects taught in schools are mostly taught in Chinese, therefore they're eroding the unique Tibetan culture.
News 2009
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HH Dalai Lama and tibetan people should demand complete independence which is the legitimate right of Tibetan people.
Top Headlines 2009
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China set up a "migration program" bringing Chinese people into Tibet, so that the tibetan people would be the ethnic minority. they also use some parts of tibet as a dumping land for their waste and subjects taught in schools are mostly taught in Chinese, therefore they're eroding the unique Tibetan culture.
News 2009
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He talked to us about Bardo Thodrol, what you know as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006
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The Qinghai Provincial Government has issued orders that, by 2015, all lessons and textbooks in Tibetan schools should be in Chinese language instead of Tibetan.
Tenzin Dickyi: The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans Tenzin Dickyi 2010
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The Qinghai Provincial Government has issued orders that, by 2015, all lessons and textbooks in Tibetan schools should be in Chinese language instead of Tibetan.
Tenzin Dickyi: The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans Tenzin Dickyi 2010
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There is a Buddhist practice called "exchanging oneself for others" that is intended to cultivate compassion and empathy -- in Tibetan it's called "tonglen."
David Nichtern: The Pursuit of Happiness: Developing Empathy for Others David Nichtern 2010
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