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  2. Yolmo people - Wikipedia

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    The Yolmo or Hyolmo (Tibetic: ཡོལ་མོ་) are a people mainly from the Eastern and Northern Himalayan Regions of Nepal called Helambu. They refer to themselves as the "Yolmowa" or "Yolmopa" [1] and are native residents of the Helambu valleys (Melamchigyang, Nakote, Tarkegyang, Sermathang) (situated over 43.4 kilometres/27 miles and 44.1 kilometres/27.4 miles to the north of ...

  3. Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepal when Hinduism was founded, the predominant religion of the country. In the middle of the first millennium BC, Gautama Buddha , the founder of Buddhism , was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal.

  4. Arun River (China–Nepal) - Wikipedia

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    Arun River - Bum Chu valley, Nepal is left in photo, Tibet in North, Umbak Himal peaks in foreground, a view to Chomo Lonzo and Mount Everest East Face (middle) The Arun is the largest trans-Himalayan river passing through Nepal and also has the greatest snow and ice-covered area of any Nepalese river basin.

  5. History of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    In Tibetan, ne means "wool" and pal means "house". Thus, Nepal is "house of wool". [3] Newar people in the Kathmandu valley named their homeland Nepal, derived from "Nepa," meaning "country of the middle zone," highlighting its central location in the Himalayas. [3] A popular theory is that Lepcha people associated Nepal with a "sacred or holy ...

  6. The Story of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    Pico Iyer, in his book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, writes: “Thomas Laird’s book, The Story of Tibet, in which the author gets the Dalai Lama to travel through the whole of Tibetan history from his perspective, already seems to me one of the essential and irreplaceable books in the field, and allows one to hear and feel the Dalai Lama’s particular voice ...

  7. Foreign relations of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    "The United States considers the Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR (hereinafter referred to as "Tibet") as part of the People's Republic of China. This longstanding policy is consistent with the view of the entire international community, including all China's neighbors: no country recognizes Tibet as a sovereign state.

  8. Geography of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    Nepal is landlocked by China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and India on other three sides. West Bengal's narrow Siliguri Corridor separate Nepal and Bangladesh. To the east are Bhutan and India. Nepal has a very high degree of geographic diversity and can be divided into three main regions: Terai, Hilly, and Himal.

  9. Newar people - Wikipedia

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    Nepal is the literary form and Newar is the colloquial form. [21] A Sanskrit inscription dated to 512 in Tistung, a valley to the west of Kathmandu, contains the phrase "greetings to the Nepals" indicating that the term "Nepal" was used to refer to both the country and the people. [22] [23]

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