Unit 5 - Tibet - Cultural Change Flashcards
1
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Where is Tibet located?
A
- between India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (in China)
2
Q
What is the population of Tibet?
A
- 3.18 million people
3
Q
Why is Tibet such an important area of Asia?
A
- Tibet has the rivers that provide Asia’s water
4
Q
How was the culture of Tibet before invasion?
A
- 99% of population is Tibetan-Buddhism
- monks and nuns
5
Q
How did the invasion of Tibet by China run?
A
- People’s Liberation Army (40000 - 80000) crossed the River Yangtze into Kham (east Tibet)
- more than 1 million Tibetans have died as a result of China’s occupation
- China has closed the vast majority of Tibetan monasteries, jailed 1000s of monks and banned Dalai Lama images
- Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959
- over 100000 Tibetan refugees in India
6
Q
What were the Chinese tactics when invading Tibet?
A
- Tibetan government was forced to sign “seventeen point agreement” - says China would protect Tibet’s political system and Buddhism in return for Tibetans to accept china’s rules
7
Q
How did China’s uprising in Tibet follow?
A
- repressing Tibetans - protest
- repressing religious belief - setting themselves on fire
- China uses torture and fear to try to maintain its grip on Tibet
- March 2008 → 100s of Tibetan monks gather in Lhasa in protests to mark the 49th anniversary of a Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule: 140 people died
8
Q
What were the effects of the cultural change in Tibet due to China?
A
- Tibet became a tourism hotspot
- cultural destruction
- less local language → more Mandarin
- Tibetan becomes minority of the population
- religion disappear
- no freedom of speech, religion
