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More Prisons Than Monasteries: The True Map of Tibet

“On This Spot: An Unconventional Map and Guide to Lhasa begins where other commercial guidebooks and maps of Lhasa end." That, according to The International Campaign for Tibet (lCT), who published the map, is precisely the point. This two-sided 20 x 24 inch map of Central Lhasa and the Greater Lhasa Valley region of Chinese-occupied Tibet isn't actually a viable substitute for the larger commercial tourist guides. Rather, according to ICT it provides "the missing pages" from those otherwise comprehensive tomes. "You will read," says the guide, "about major independence demonstrations as you stand on the sites where they took place...about Tibetan prisoners of conscience—and the exact locations of the prisons where they are held today."