Xizang

History of Xizang

See the article History of Tibet for more details.

According to the official story of the Popular republic of China, the Tibet was annexed by China as of the XIIe century, under the Dynastie Yuan, replacing control Mongolian on its empire including China and Tibet. Only the British colonial period of the beginning of the XXe century gave him a relative temporary independence with respect to Beijing. The Tibetans would be thus since the return of the Chinese government in 1949 under the political control of the autonomous regional government of Tibet, with ascending of Beijing.

It should however be noticed that the emperor of China of this time was Kubilai Khan. This Mongolian emperor conquered actually China, taken the place of the emperor of China and legatee a new dynasty, that of the Yuan S. Actually, Kubilai Khan forever reign on the Tibet, but has interacts with Sakya which will preserve their political role. The independence of Tibet during the history is old, and was in particular affirmed by the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, in 1913.

Restriction and authorization of the lamaïsme

The photographs of the 14 {{E}} Dalaï Lama, since her exile for the India in 1959 are prohibited under penalty of prison. Buddhism Tibetan, and more particularly the school Gelugpa of which he is monk, were severely controlled. The central government regularly shows the 14th Dalaï Lama of separatism, whereas he has asked for more than 20 years a real autonomy for the whole of the Tibet in a will of agreement and reconciliation to be built with the China. This school of Buddhism Tibetan as well as different Dalaï Lama however are quoted in the exposures as those which one can sometimes see in the lamasery and Temple of Yonghe of Beijing, or in the books of history in China. The practice of the other schools of the Buddhism Tibetan or the Bön would be authorized, as in all the Popular republic of China.

It should however be noticed that the 11 {{E}} Panchen LAMA, 2nd authority of the hierarchy of the Bouddhisme Tibetan, the school Gelugpa and historically near to the Dalaï Lama, is under house arrest since 1995. The other schools of Buddhism are not saved, one regrets at the Nyingmapa, oldest of the schools Buddhist of Tibet, the destruction in 2001 of the Buddhist institute of Serthar founded by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok put under house arrest and missing in suspect circumstances. The majority of the large Masters of Buddhism Tibetan were constrained to be exiled, like illustrated the escape of Rigdzin Namkha Gyatso Rinpoché in 1998 and that of the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje. The school Bön has also sudden serious disorders, like the destruction of its places of worship and also the wounds of its spiritual leader, Lopön Tenzin Namdak, at the time of its exile in 1959.

Principal cities

The cities are populated very little there, the farming population being important in this province. The Chinese census of November 1st 2000 gives the urban populations for the towns of Lhassa and Xigazê and the urban populations of their counties for the other cities.

source: city population.de

Urban population of the provincial towns of Xizang at the 11/1/2000

See too

Tibet

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