Portal:Tibet

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This page links to documents related to the nation of Tibet.

The flag of Tibet — Flag of Tibet

Works

Chapter 45 from The Book of Ser Marco Polo, by Marco Polo, 1903 translation by Henry Yule
"Tibet" in Littell's Living Age, 137 (1775) (22^nd June, 1878)
"The Topmost Country of the Earth" in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (August 1882)
In the Forbidden Land, 1898 by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, 1902 by Sarat Chandra Das
Tibet & Nepal, 1905 by Arnold Henry Savage Landor IA
Lhasa and Central Tibet in the "Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution" of 1903 by Gombojab Tsybikov
- ibid. in the Geographical Journal, London, January, 1904.
- "Views of Lhasa" in National Geographic Magazine, 16 (1) (January, 1905) by Gombojab Tsybikov

Fairy Tales

Folk Tales from Tibet (1906) by William Frederick Travers O'Connor
Sagas from the Far East, 1873 by Rachel Harriette Busk (originally collected by Bernhardt Jülg among Kalmyks and issued in German)
- Wonder Tales from Tibet, 1922 by Eleanore Myers Jewett (adaptation of the above edition)

Politics

Proclamation of Independence of Tibet, 1913 by Thubten Gyatso
50 Years of Democratic Reform in Tibet, white paper published by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China on 2 March 2009.
Democratic Reform in Tibet——Sixty Years On, white paper published by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China on March 2019.

International relations

Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet, 1906
Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, 23 May, 1951, between China and tibet

Treaties

Treaty of Thapathali (1856), with Nepal
Treaty between Tibet and Mongolia, 1913
Simla Accord, 3 July 1914 between the United Kingdom, China and Tibet

Reference

"Tibet," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913).
"Tibet," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Evariste Régis Huc," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913).