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Why Tibet? |
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Tibet provides enormous benefits to the global
community. Tibetans adapt to their harsh environment on the
"roof of the world" by using unique strategies that
have yet to be fully explored or understood by other cultures.
They have developed a veritable technology of philosophical
nonviolence that fosters their functional coexistence with each
other within a fragile ecosystem. They have catalogued invaluable
environmental and biomedical information on thousands of medicinal
herbs and minerals that exist only at high altitudes. |
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Living at an average altitude of 16,000 feet,
Tibetans also serve as guardians of the headwaters of seven
major Asian rivers, and their environmental, educational, and
health status directly affects a quarter of the world's population
that lives downstream. |
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