Tibetan Cultural Parade - UN to Times Square, 10/10/09

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Original date:: Oct 10, 2009

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FREE TIBET: Quote from His Holiness the Dalai Lama highlights the seriousness of the situation in Tibet: "This is the worst period in our 2000 year history. At this time now, there is every danger that the entire Tibetan Nation, with its own unique cultural heritage will completely disappear. It is really a question of life and death; if death occurs, nothing is left."

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Tibetan people

The Tibetan people (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: Bodpa; Chinese: 藏族; pinyin: Zàng Zú) are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet. They number 5.4 million. Significant Tibetan minorities also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

Tibetans speak the Tibetic languages, many varieties of which are mutually unintelligible. They belong to the Sino-Tibetan languages. The traditional, or mythological, explanation of the Tibetan people's origin is that they are the descendants of the monkey Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa and rock ogress Ma Drag Sinmo. Most Tibetans practice Tibetan Buddhism, though some observe the indigenous Bön religion. Tibetan Buddhism influences Tibetan art, drama, and architecture, while the harsh geography of Tibet has produced an adaptive culture of Tibetan medicine and cuisine.

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