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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=6 PTSIZE=24 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">AN OPEN LETTER TO:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO,<BR>
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, Research & Exploration,<BR>
THE CHINESE INSTITUTE OF BOTANY,<BR>
KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY, Yang Yongping<BR>
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, Jan Salick<BR>
ELIZABETH ARNOLD </FONT><FONT COLOR="#8000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">RE: Creating Profitable Pharma Industry in Yunnan, China while Protecting Tibetan Medicinal Plants? </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"></B>You may fool some of the people some of the time but not <I>all</I> people<I> all </I>the time. Sure, let the fox watch the henhouse. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#8000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>"There is a revival of Tibetan culture in China, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">and that's led to a renewed interest in traditional medicine rooted in Buddhism."<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0080" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">[Revival? Since when did occupation and/or annexation become revival? ] </FONT><FONT COLOR="#8000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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<B>"At the Kunming Institute of Botany, {Yunnan, China ] scientists analyze and synthesize the chemical compounds of</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> China's wealth of medicinal plants. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">"<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">[ Erratum: Analyze and synthesize </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Tibet's</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> fabled wealth of medicinal plants --</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">-[ to survey which ones to be patented.] </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0080" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Listen, you</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Corporate goons and minions----enough Tibetans and enough people around the world know about biopiracy.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">The plant medicine world is not stupid. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BR>
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In the current map of China, the shameless Chinese has already changed the name of the great land of Tibet to <B>XIZANG</B>. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Why is the National Geographic, National Public Radio, and Missouri Botanical Garden helping China rewrite history?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <B>Who paid for the China & Tibet trip of the author? The manner and tone of this article has given you away. How dare you use the word sacred?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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Need I say more?<BR>
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Sacred Protection for Medicinal Plants</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Shrine to Buddha in the home of Chindru, a practicioner of traditional Tibetan herbal medicine.<BR>
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In the peaks where Chindru, pictured above, collects plants for his herbal remedies, some plant species have become scarce and others have simply vanished.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">“The Tibetans keep reminding me that sacred sites are much greater than just conservation sites. For them, it's a connection with the ethereal, with eternity, with the universe.”</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE></B><BR>
Jan Salick <BR>
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Buddhist pilgrims on the trail circling the sacred peak of</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B> Kawakarpo. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>They wear mitts and aprons because they prostrate themselves for the length of the journey, touching their foreheads to the ground to show their devotion. <BR>
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Burning incense at a shrine with a commanding view of </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Kawakarpo, one of the holy mountains of Tibetan Buddhism. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3">Morning Edition</A>,<BR>
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At the </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Kunming Institute of Botany</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>, scientists analyze and synthesize the chemical compounds of China's wealth of medicinal plants. The institute's deputy director, <B>Yang Yongping, </B>says the government's goal is to develop a <B>profitable pharmaceutical industry in Yunnan Province -</B>- and that leads to a firm commitment to conservation, to protect the source of potential new medicines. <BR>
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Many of these medicinal plants are under a dual threat: global warming and the growing global demand for them. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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"We have a moral responsibility to keep those species in our earth village," he says.<BR>
Conservation is already built in to Tibetan culture, where plants are considered both medicinal and spiritual.<B> <BR>
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There is a revival of Tibetan culture in China, and that's led to a renewed interest in traditional medicine rooted in Buddhism.</B><BR>
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The </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0080" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Chinese Institute of Botany </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">has partnered with Jan Salick,</B> an <B>ethnobotanist</B> from the<B> Missouri Botanical Garden,</B> to study medicinal plants and their cultural uses. Religion plays an important part of the healing process, she says. "It's not just plants that are ground up and you take as medicine -- it's a whole belief system."<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0080" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Traditional doctors also hold a special status in Tibetan culture.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B> Elizabeth Arnold met with <B>Chindru, a 70-year-old doctor </B>in a tiny village carved out of the side of a hillside 100 miles northwest of <B>Sumsteling</B>. In the peaks high above this village where Chindru does his collecting, he's noticed a change -- some species have become scarce, others have simply vanished.<BR>
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Part of the problem, Salick says, is the growing international demand for traditional medicinal plants. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Salick's primary focus is the effect of climate change on high-altitude plants, but she says commercial harvesters are having a big impact on mountain biodiversity.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><BR>
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More than half the 6,000 plant species in Yunnan Province are used for medicinal purposes, with an estimated worldwide market of four billion people. Salick's aim is to partner with traditional doctors like Chindru to encourage Tibetans and Chinese to harvest plants in a more sustainable way to forestall wiping out entire species.<BR>
And fortunately, the underpinnings of conservation already exist in Tibetan culture. Holy sites, such as the <B>eight sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism,</B> have become pockets of biodiversity in a rapidly changing landscape.<BR>
"The Tibetans keep reminding me that sacred sites are much greater than just conservation sites," says Salick. "For them, it's a connection with the ethereal, with eternity, with the universe. So we don't have to... set aside lands and disrupt traditional practices -- we can use traditional practices for conservation purposes."<BR>
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Botanist Jan Salick's research is supported by National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B><I> which in more than a century has provided nearly 8,000 research grants worldwide. The committee funds everything from primate research to Mayan archaeology to assessing the biological diversity of the deep ocean.</I><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.savetibet.org/news/index.php">News and Information</A>: <A HREF="http://www.savetibet.org/news/positionpapers/index.php">Position and Briefing Papers</A>:<BR>
Bibliography on Current Conditions in Tibet</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">General</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B></U><BR>
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Adhe, Ama, <B>Ama Adhe: The Voice that Remembers</B>. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1997. <BR>
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Avedon, John, <B>In Exile From the Lands of Snows</B>. New York: Knopf, 1986. <BR>
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Barnett, Robbie & Shirin Akiner, (eds), <B>Resistance and Reform in Tibet. Bloomington</B>: Indiana University Press, 1994. <BR>
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Cao Changching and James Seymour, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Tibet through Dissident Chinese Eyes</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. <BR>
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Gyatso, Palden, with Tsering Shakya, <B>The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk</B>. New York: Grove Press, 1997. <BR>
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Information Office of the State Council, <B>Tibet: Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation</B>. Beijing, 1992. <BR>
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Norbu, Dawa, <B>The Road Ahead.</B> New Delhi, 1997. <BR>
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Panchen Lama. <B>A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Report of the 10th Panchen Lama</B>. London: 1997. <BR>
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Panchen Lama, <B>The Panchen Lama Speaks</B>. Dharamsala: Department of Information & International Relations, 1991. <BR>
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Tashi, Tsering, <B>The Struggle for Modern Tibet</B>. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B><U>Human Rights</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B></U><BR>
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Amnesty International,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B> Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>London: 1996. <BR>
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Bass, Catriona, <B>Education in Tibet</B>. London: Tibet Information Network & Zed Books, 1999. <BR>
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Human Rights Watch/Asia, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Merciless Repression</B>.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> New York, 1990. <BR>
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Human Rights Watch, <B>Detained in China and Tibet</B>. New York, 1994. <BR>
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'Human Rights Watch/Tibet Information Network, <B>Cutting Off the Serpents Head: Tightening Control in Tibet</B>, 1994-1995. New York: 1996. <BR>
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International Campaign for Tibet, <B>Jampa: The Story of Racism in Tibet</B>. Washington, 2001 <BR>
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International Campaign for Tibet, <B>A Season to Purge: Religious Repression in Tibet</B>. Washington, 1996. <BR>
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International Campaign for Tibet, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>China's Public Relations Strategy on Tibet</B>. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Washington: 1993. <BR>
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International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Violence and Discrimination Against Tibetan Women</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>. San Francisco, 1998. <BR>
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Seymour, James D. and Richard Anderson, <B>New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Camps in China</B>. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. <BR>
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Tibet Information Network and Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff00ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Defying the Dragon: China and Human Rights in Tibet</B>.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> Manila and London, 1991. <BR>
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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, <B>Behind Bars: Prison Conditions in Tibet</B>. Dharamsala, 1998. <BR>
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United States Department of State, <B><A HREF="http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/">Country Reports</A></B></B>, 1990 - 2000. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B><U>Legal</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B></U><BR>
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International Commission of Jurists, <B>Tibet: Human Rights and the Rule of Law</B>. Geneva, 1998. <BR>
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Walt, Michael van, <B>The Status of Tibet: History, Rights, and Prospects in International Law</B>. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987. <BR>
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Rebecca Redwood French, <B>The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet</B>. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1995. <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><U><BR>
<B>Sociology</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B></U><BR>
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Dung-dkar blo-bzang 'phrim-las, <B>The Merging of Religious and Secular Rule in Tibet</B>. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1991. <BR>
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Heberer, Thomas. <B>China and its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation?</B> London: M.E. Sharpe, 1989. <BR>
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Schwartz, Ronald, <B>Circle of Protest</B>. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B><U>History</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B></U><BR>
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Dalai Lama, <B>My Land, My People</B>. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. <BR>
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Goldstein, Melvyn, <B>A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: </FONT><FONT COLOR="#8000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The Demise of the <BR>
Lamaist State</B>.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. <BR>
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Shakabpa, Tsepon, <B>Tibet: A Political History</B>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. <BR>
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Smith, Warren, <B>Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations</B>. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. <BR>
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