Tibetan
High plateau dweller
Tibetan relates to Tibet, a region in Central Asia on the high plateau north of the Himalayas, now largely under Chinese control.
A Tibetan is a person from Tibet or of Tibetan descent.
The Tibetan language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family.
Tibetan Buddhism, led by the Dalai Lama, is the region's dominant religious tradition.
A Tibetan monastery, Tibetan refugees.
Circular spiritual diagram
- thangkaTibetan religious fabric painting
- prayer wheelRevolving cylinder containing mantras
- prayer flagCloth printed with mantras
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
lama · Dalai Lama · yak · butter tea · sky burial · kata · singing bowl · prostration
Enlightenment-seeking Eastern religion
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- dharmaCosmic moral order
- sanghaBuddhist religious community
- tantraEsoteric spiritual discipline
mantra · mudra · bodhisattva
Flat highland area
- HimalayasAsia's highest range
- LhasaTibet's administrative center
- EverestTallest peak on Earth
- BrahmaputraTrans-Himalayan river system
mandala
Circular spiritual diagram
- thangkaTibetan religious fabric painting
- prayer wheelRevolving cylinder containing mantras
- prayer flagCloth printed with mantras
monastery · lama · Dalai Lama · yak · butter tea · sky burial · kata · singing bowl · prostration · kora
Buddhism
Enlightenment-seeking Eastern religion
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- dharmaCosmic moral order
- sanghaBuddhist religious community
tantra · mantra · mudra · bodhisattva
plateau
Flat highland area
Bhutanese
Of a small Himalayan nation
Balti
Baltistan's native people
- Asian peoplesChinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai
- Indigenous LanguagesNavajo, Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwe
- Sino-TibetanMandarin, Cantonese, Burmese, Karen, Balti
- Highland PeoplesNepalese, Nepali, Quechua, Andean, Incan
- East Asian ethnicitiesHan, Mongol, Li, Manchu, Han Chinese
- Himalayan languagesNepali, Bhutanese
TibetanMaoist
Agrarian revolutionary ideologue
Confucian · atheist · materialist · Han Chinese · secular
- Tibetan peopleHimalayan ethnic group
- Tibetan monkBuddhist cleric from Himalayas
- Tibetan BuddhismHimalayan tantric spiritual tradition
- Tibetan PlateauElevated Asian landmass
- Tibetan Book of the DeadBuddhist death transition scripture
- Tibetan chantsRitualistic Buddhist vocal prayers