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  • Taktser
    1
  • Taring, Jigme Sumchan Wang-Po Namgyal,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Taring, Rinchen Dolma,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    • Daughter of Tibet
      ,
      1
  • Tenzing, Sherpa of Everest,
    1
  • Thondup,
    1
  • Thupten Gyatso,
    1
  • Tibetan Book of the Dead:
    see Bardo Thodol
  • Tibetan Drama School,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Tibetan Government-in-Exile,
    1
    ,
    2
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Tom Dooley Foundation,
    1
  • Triund Rest House,
    1
  • Tsarong, Tsi-pon,
    1
  • Tsiring Dolma, Mrs (sister of the
  • Dalai Lama),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
  • Tsiring Thondup,
    1
  • Tsong-Kapa,
    1
  • Tubung Churbu Monastery, Abbot of,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Umadevi,
    1
    ,
    2
  • US Congressional Human Rights Caucus,
    1
  • Utsang, province of Tibet,
    1
  • Vietnam, South,
    1
  • Waddell, Dr L. A.,
    1
  • Westropp, Jenny,
    1
  • Williams, David,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Woodroffe, Sir John,
    1
  • World Organisation for Refugees,
    1
  • Yamdrock Lake,
    1
  • Yangchen Dolma,
    1
  • Yangste River,
    1
  • Yonten Gonpo, Yuthok,
    1
  • Younghusband Expedition,
    1
  • Young Lamas' School:
    see
    Dalhousie
  • YMCA, Indian,
    1
  • Zimey, Rimpoche,
    1

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