Unfortunately when we were in Nepal we were unable to get a visa for Tibet as the UK are currently banned from Tibet. Apparently a young monk from Holland self immolated in protest about the Chinese occupation of Tibet and was aided by some other people one of whom was from the UK and thus UK nationals are currently denied visas.
We have mixed feelings about Tibet as the occupation is wrong and everything we hear about it makes us less likely to want to go.
Since the occupation in the 60s the Chinese have destroyed a lot of the monasteries and are now building new ones, which would start to sound a bit like a Buddhist Disneyland! Also the way the Chinese have imprisoned the Panchen Lama, making him the young political prisoner in the world is absolutely wrong.