| It translates literally as Easterner, referring to their origins in Eastern Tibet. |
| Arriving in Tibet in late August, Koch and Chin acclimatized by climbing and skiing Changzheng, Everest's 24,890-foot neighbor. |
| Except there is a love interest in his latest novel, a spiritual thriller set in an imaginary country very much like Tibet. |
| Also known as wolfberry, the goji berry grows in Tibet, China, and Mongolia and is revered in Traditional Chinese Medicine as an anti-aging herb. |
| To the west of Jin was the Tangut empire which, in turn, was bordered by Tibet to the South-west. |
| The exiles followed the Dalai Lama, the supreme Tibetan Buddhist leader, who fled Tibet after a failed 1959 revolt against Chinese rule. |
