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This is how Mei Zhiyuan sees Tibet—as a harmonious region that benefits from Chinese support.When I asked him why he had volunteered to work there, he said, "Because all of us know that Tibet is a less developed place that needs skilled people."I went to Tibet to explore this second viewpoint, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Tibet question through Chinese eyes.

Legend has it that toward the end of the 7th century, the royal families of China and Nepal offered brides to Songsten Gampo, the first of Tibet’s mighty kings to unify the country (and frighten its neighbors).And these two remarkable women are remembered as the matriarchs of Tibetan Buddhism, together planting the first seeds of Buddha’s teachings in the Land of Snows.About a hundred years later, another king, Trisong Detsen, decided it was time to take this new faith even more seriously.He built Tibet’s first Buddhist monastery at the base of one of their holiest mountains and called it Samye, the Inconceivable.A spirit of ecumenicalism pervaded Samye from the start.