from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Garhwal Division Garhwal or Gurwal is a region and administrative division of Uttarakhand state‚ India‚ lying in the Himalayas. It is bounded on the north by Tibet‚ on the east by Kumaon region‚ on the south by Uttar Pradesh state‚ and on the west by Himachal Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Chamoli‚... Himalayas Himalayas The Himalaya Range ‚ the Himalayas or Himalaya for short‚ is a mountain range
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Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh‚ some regions of Western Nepal and their adjoining areas experienced heavy rainfall that triggered devastating floods and landslides. Parts of Haryana‚ Delhi and Uttar Pradesh‚ and some parts of Western Tibet also experienced heavy rainfall. As of 29 June 2013 (2013-06-29)[update]‚ more than 1‚000 people have died with many more missing.[3] Damage to bridges and roads left over 70‚000 pilgrims and tourists trapped in various places‚[4][5][6] many of whom
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the general public. Through the use of Mongol military techniques and Chinese administrative Government‚ the Qing Empire expanded China’s control to Mongolia and Taiwan‚ under the reign of the Qianlong emperor the Qing Dynasty extended its empire to Tibet‚ small states of SE Asia‚ Korea and large parts of central Asia‚ some of what is part of modern-day Russia
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believable yeti”.[69] This fieldwork in Nepal’s Barun Valley led directly to initiating in 1984 Makalu-Barun National Park that protected over half a million acres in 1991‚ and across the border with China the Qomolangma national nature preserve in the Tibet Autonomous Region that protected over six million acres. In the words of Honorary President of the American Alpine Club‚ Robert H. Bates‚ this yeti discovery "has apparently solved the mystery of the yeti‚ or at least part of it‚ and in so doing added
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company; which is probably why marathons are run in many unconventional and interesting locales. There’s the one in Greece that traces Pheidippides’s original course. Sounds sedate? Seekers of extreme adventure can run at the Great Wall of China‚ in Tibet at an altitude of 11‚500 feet or even in remote Greenland. The Big Five Marathon across South Africa’s untamed grasslands promises an encounter of the wild
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was inspired by love and compassion to find lasting peace and nirvana. In present day‚ there are now a few distinctive numbers of followers‚ the number of followers are from 488 to 535 million in regions like Asia‚ India and other countries like Tibet.
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best-selling novel‚ Lost Horizon. The story itself begins when an evacuation of Westerners is ordered in the midst of revolution in Baksul‚ India. A plane containing four passengers is hi-jacked and flown far away into the Keun-Lun Mountains of Tibet. The plane crashes and the passengers are welcomed to the valley of the Blue Moon‚ and the lamasery of Shangri-la. Here they see an isolated monastery shrouded in mystery‚ which combines Christianity and Buddhism with a focus on the progression of
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Impermanence‚ suffering‚ emptiness and selflessness. Buddhist monk Ven Geshe Lhakdor talks about the four seals of dharma to Sonal Srivastava What is the Buddhist perspective on impermanence? Anything that is conditional and exists because of certain causes and conditions is impermanent. We begin ageing from the moment we are born. Impermanence of death begins from the moment of birth. Impermanence is the reality of life. How does one deal with suffering? All contaminated things bring suffering
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Terrorism Its Causes and Effects !! Terrorism has become a worldwide phenomenon with its many faces and manifestations. State-sponsored terrorism presents its worst form. Pol Pot in Cambodia let loose such a terrorism which killed millions of Cambodians. In India terrorism has been there in many States. Terrorists do not hesitate in using even the most cruel methods of violence and do not spare even women and children. Essay And Article On : Terrorism In India !! In Punjab it has been Pakistan
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The Munda are tribal (Adivasi) people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. They are found across much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha ‚ West Bengal‚ Chhattisgahr ‚ Bihar and into parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari‚ which belongs to the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family * Mostly Munda people follow the Sarna religion‚ believing in a god called Singbonga. * However one-fourth of them have adopted Christianity.[citation needed] * The surname
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