TO GO WITH "CHINA-INDIA-TIBET-BORDER-TRA

GANGTOK, INDIA: TO GO WITH "CHINA-INDIA-TIBET-BORDER-TRADE-RELIGION" In this picture taken 04 July 2006, Indian Buddhist monks attend a class at a monastery in Gangtok, capital city of the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim. Indian Buddhist monk and chant master Kunzang Norbu, who teaches child monks at the monastery, believes his prayers to visit the highest seat of Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa have finally been heard. "We have been praying day and night for years that the famed Silk Road is reopened so that people like us can visit Lhasa," 30-year-old Norbu told AFP at Choten monastery in Sikkim's capital Gangtok. India and China last month fixed 06 July as the date for reopening the historic Silk Road route at the 15,000-feet (4,545 metre) Nathu La Pass on the border between Sikkim and China's Tibet region. The reopening will mark the first official land trade route between India and China since they fought a bitter border war in 1962. AFP PHOTO Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY (Photo credit should read DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP via Getty Images)
GANGTOK, INDIA: TO GO WITH "CHINA-INDIA-TIBET-BORDER-TRADE-RELIGION" In this picture taken 04 July 2006, Indian Buddhist monks attend a class at a monastery in Gangtok, capital city of the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim. Indian Buddhist monk and chant master Kunzang Norbu, who teaches child monks at the monastery, believes his prayers to visit the highest seat of Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa have finally been heard. "We have been praying day and night for years that the famed Silk Road is reopened so that people like us can visit Lhasa," 30-year-old Norbu told AFP at Choten monastery in Sikkim's capital Gangtok. India and China last month fixed 06 July as the date for reopening the historic Silk Road route at the 15,000-feet (4,545 metre) Nathu La Pass on the border between Sikkim and China's Tibet region. The reopening will mark the first official land trade route between India and China since they fought a bitter border war in 1962. AFP PHOTO Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY (Photo credit should read DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP via Getty Images)
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