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Tibetan Buddha's Birthday - Kangding

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June 8th 2007
SICHUAN, CHINA - (May 2007) Thurs 24th - Fri 25th May - (Kangding) One of the reasons for coming to Chengdu again on this trip was to use Chengdu as a gateway to travel to the remote parts of Sichuan province near the Tibetan 'Autonomous' region border area. Large areas of western and northern Sichuan and nearby Gansu province are largely populated by Tibetans and have been out of bound ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more