CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Travel Literature is travel writing of literary value. This genre is also called ‘Travel Record Literature’. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-culture or transnational in focus‚ or may involve travel to different regions within the same country. Accounts of spaceflight may also be considered travel literature
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example of this statement is the Sherpas of Nepal. The Sherpas are an ethnic group of devout Muslims living in the Peaks of the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal. They are of a Tibetan descent‚ and moved from Tibet 450 years ago. Sherpa translates to ‘easterner’‚ and references their origins to Kham (Eastern Tibet). Their population is roughly 50000 people who accommodate the solu-khumbu and khumbu regions of the Himalayas‚ south of Mount Everest (refer to power point). Due to the extreme slopes of the location
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winter during which the area faces a variety of natural hazards. DISASTER RISK ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION OF VARIOUS DISASTERS FLOOD HAZARD ASSESSMENT Majuli being a part of Assam which is surrounded by hilly areas like Arunachal Pradesh‚ Nagaland‚ Tibet and Bhutan is more prone to flood than any other disaster. Majuli suffers great loss to life and property as it is hit by flood every year. VULNERABILITY AND CAUSES OF FLOOD IN MAJULI The causes of flood in Majuli are due to excessive rainfall
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of which is now in the collection of the National Museum of Bhutan‚ Paro). Other objects credited to Pema Lingpa include chain mail‚ swords and knives. The history of the lineage Pema Lingpa was born into the Nyo lineage‚ said to have emerged in Tibet from divine ancestry before arriving in Bhutan via the son of Jikten Gonpo (1217)‚ the founder of the Drigung Kagyu tradition. Jikten Gonpo is said to have experienced a vision that compelled him to send his son Ziji Pel to the south‚ where the young
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Contrarily‚ among a few non-western cultures‚ not only does the term female promiscuity not exist‚ but women are expected to have various sexual partners in their lifetime. Among the Barí tribe of Venezuela and among some villages in the northwest of Tibet‚ polyandry is a widely practiced and accepted ritual. Women are not only encouraged to have many sexual partners‚ but they are expected to do so. This drastic difference in attitudes with regards to the cultural phenomenon of female promiscuity provides
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who appears during war with her handmade GIN TO FOOL soldiers and curse them‚ and that I was a victim‚ out of curiosity I listened and cause I was scared‚ I asked if I could be cured‚ he nodded yes and that we must go to the forbidden mountain in TIBET and climb the thousand steps and capture Gin‚ when we capture her‚ she take us to MAL‚ I hated the idea of travelling and I said he was deluded until he told me my dreams and longing for blood‚ I denied saying
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University of Phoenix Material Buddhism Worksheet Write a 1- to 2-paragraph response for each of the following. 1. Explain the basic Buddhist teachings including the three marks of reality‚ the Four Noble Truths‚ and the Noble Eightfold Path. Answer: The basic teachings of Buddhism are based around what are called the three jewels. The first is Buddha or an ideal human who others should imitate. The second is Dharma which is the Buddhist lessons on how to see things in a worldly
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* Beastly Tales (1991) Libretti[edit source | editbeta] * Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera * The Traveller [2008] with composer Alec Roth Others[edit source | editbeta] * From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983)
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towards him from the window of his residence. It shocked him to such an extent that he immediately stopped showing interest in Nyingma teaching. In Trijang Rinpoche´s “Music Delighting the Ocean of protectors” he wrote‚ “ whether they were lords of Tibet‚ great lamas who held the political power of the throne‚ lamas and tulkus‚ great or small‚ with illustrious lines of incarnation‚ holy beings rich in scriptural and realized qualities‚ high lords of vast lands and works‚ those haughty with pride of
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in general is just a game. He thinks that the world is divided between the hunter and the hunted. Rainsford is an American hunter of world renown‚ and is immediately recognized by General Zaroff as an author of a book on hunting Snow Leopards in Tibet. (Connell‚ 7) While they both share an interest in hunting‚ Rainsford believes Zaroff’s newly defined sport to be brutal and Zaroff himself to be a murderer in the beginning of the story. Even with his service in the military‚ he is unable to consider
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