Review of the geographical aspects and cultural aspects of Seven Years in Tibet
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| Prayer wheels do what? | Keep spinning to keep prayers p.88 Also known as "Mani wheels" to tibetians.
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| What is a Kundun? | Means "presence", they call the Dalai Lama this.
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| What obstacles did the men from the west have to overcome? | Language, mountains,culture,ecapeing prison,westerners not allowed, needed a permit, ect pg.37
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| What the author learned. | Slower pace of life, culture, language,new appreciation for Tibetian life.
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| What color is favored by the Dalai Lama? | Yellow pg 186
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| Rebirth | When someone dies they turn into something else such as a animal. And respect of nature.
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| Capital Punishment | Punishment was unhumane and was strange such as cutting off the hands and lashingsor floggings. Not bill more harsh.
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| Oracle | Disconnects body and spirit.
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| Behavior for people of Tibet. | Happy, hospitable, love, laughing, slower pace of life.
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| How did Tibetans dispose of bodies and death? | Bodies must be chopped up, and fed to birds or burned, or sometimes have a water burial. Body is useless when no soul is in it.
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| What are monasteries? | Monasteries are all over Tibet and this is where monks live. (Also women can not be monks.)
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| What was the author's connection to the Dalai Lama? | He was his tutor about everything in the western world, geography, science, English.
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| Tibet vs. China | Tibet and China did not like each other. And Tibet did not like China because they are a communist country.
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| Tibet markets | They were crowded stalls selling things like scarfs and clothes. pg 49 and 218
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| Tibet education | Tibet had a medicine school and most things were taught in monasteries. (Slates were also used in education so that they can erase things.
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| Feelings toward hunting | Do not kill animals and have lots of respect for animals it could be your grandmother!
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| Hair | Shows status in society. High worn up= high status. Pig tails=low status
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| Butter tea | You can drink up to 60 days, served hot and not good
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| White scarves | polite given to honor people; polite ritual
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| Honey | illegal, could be traded and was hard to get
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| Projects that the western people did (harcher and althsniter) | Irrigation systems, filming for Dalai Lama, gardening, building tennis court, ice skating, fountain, Theatre (movie)
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| What did the Dalai Lama learn? | Life, culture, and Technology of the west
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| Tibetan soldiers | Solders were volunteers and they were not well trained and got money from spoils.
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| Tibetan Religion | buddism reincarnation very importatant and Dalai Lama center of religion.
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| Feelings about Dalai Lama | Very respected, people love him and consider him as a god.
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