Tibetan Foothold (25 page)

• 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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