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In 1963, Snyder met Nanao Sakaki, and through him, others who would call themselves "the Bum Academny" and eventually bring together The Tribe (Buzoku). [1]
Snyder met Masa Uehara in Osaka in 1966 through Hisao Kanaseki, who also worked on Ruth Fuller Sasaki's research team, and had been Uehara's English professor at Kobe University. In 1967, she was a graduate student in English at Ochanomizu University and was participating in Bum Academy activities.[2]
Snyder also pursued his interest in Shugendō in Japan; he was initiated as a Yamabushi in 1961, and subsequently brought this interest to his Bum Academy friends.[3]
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History of Tibet#Early HistoryHistory of Tibet#'Feudal serfdom'
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- To what extent has Goldstein retreated from characterizing Tibetan peasants as serfs? What are his reasons for doing so?
- Are there other academics outside China who call them serfs?
- Do other academics actively dispute the term, or just avoid using it? If actively disputed, on what grounds?
- What are the thematic and/or POV differences between academic and journalistic coverage of the topic?
younghusband
The causes of the war are obscure, and it seems to have been primarily provoked by rumours circulating amongst the Calcutta-based British administration (Delhi was made imperial capital of India in 1911) that the Chinese government, (who nominally controlled Tibet), were planning to turn it over to the Russians, thus providing Russia with a direct route to British India and breaking the chain of semi-independent, mountainous buffer-states which separated India from the Russian Empire to the north. These rumours were seemingly supported by the facts of Russian exploration of Tibet. Russian explorer Gombojab Tsybikov was the first photographer of Lhasa, residing in it in 1900—1901 with the aid of Dalai Lama's Russian courtier Agvan Dorjiyev.
In view of the rumors, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon in 1903 sent a request to the governments of China and Tibet for negotiations to be held at Khampa Dzong, a tiny Tibetan village north of Sikkim to establish trade agreements. The Chinese were willing, and ordered the thirteenth Dalai Lama to attend. However, the Dalai Lama refused, and also refused to provide transportation to enable the amban (the Chinese official based in Lhasa) to attend. Curzon concluded that China had no power or authority to compel the Tibetan government, and gained approval from London to send a military expedition, led by Younghusband, to Khampa Dzong. When no Tibetan or Chinese officials met them there, Younghusband advanced, with some 1,150 soldiers, 10,000 porters and lavorers, and thousands of pack animals, to Tuna, fifty miles beyond the border. After waiting more months there, hoping in vain to be met by negotiators, the expedition received orders (in 1904) to continue toward Lhasa.
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