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Fact check: Image shows Tibetan nuns, not African settlers to Japan

Fact check: Image shows Tibetan nuns, not African settlers to Japan
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Century-old photo shows Tibetan nuns in Bhutan, not African settlers in Japan

An image of women wearing dark robes has been shared thousands of times on Facebook with a claim that it shows a group of Africans, also known as “Nubian Chinese”, who first inhabited the Japanese islands in 35,000 BC. But this is false: the photo was taken in about 1904 at the Taktsang monastery in Bhutan and shows a group of Tibetan nuns.  ....

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9781873938966: Tibet: Caught in Time - AbeBooks - John Clarke: 1873938969


Tibet is famed for its majestic beauty, and also for its ongoing struggle for cultural survival. This collection of photographs from the British Library, taken by two British diplomats in the early 20th century, shows traditional Tibetan culture before Chinese rule was imposed. In Lhasa, a noble family take a picnic in a park, the women s elaborate head-dresses adorned with pearls. Travelling folk- opera singers pose in costumes and masks. Tibet covers an area as large as the UK, France and Germany combined, with a landscape that includes magnificent glaciers and Himalayan peaks, but also high plateaux and valleys with farmland, all of which are atmospherically evoked. These were the final decades of a society that had changed little since the Middle Ages, but was about to be savagely oppressed. The photographs, caught in a window of time, form a treasured record of the true spirit of Tibet. ....

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