Yao ming pictures and biography of dalai
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1Do not circulate without permission of the editor / Ne pas diff user sans autorisation de l’éditeur TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE: THE MILITARY IN TIBET AS DESCRIBED BY THE FIFTH DALAI LAMA
Federica Venturi* 1
Even a summary examination of the topic of the body of soldiers who, on various occasions, fought on behalf of the government of the Dalai Lamas between and , opens rather more questions than we are able to answer satisfactorily. To begin with, during the reign of the Fi h Dalai Lama (– 82), it is not even certain whether this body of soldiers was offi cially considered as “ the army of the Ganden Phodrang” (Dga’ ldan pho brang), or if and at which precise point it became so. In fact, it is still not known when exactly such an army was instituted, and, similarly, we know very little about its technical organisation in this early period, mainly because of a paucity of historical sources. Nonetheless, a few religious biographies at the disposal of the historian allow the investigation of certain facets of military
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2history, such as the opinion of the army and its activities expressed by religious hierarchs. In particular, the reign of the Fi h Dalai Lama represents a crucial period, during which a amework of war a
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Yao Ming doing recovering exercise
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Yao Ming is doing recovering exercise on March 31, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Yao had season-ending foot surgery. [Agencies]
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Ming–Tibet relations
Relations among Ming-dynasty Pottery and Tibet
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