Ani is free for now, able to make a pilgrimage to Lhasa's holiest sites and, from her laughter, enjoying it.
Emperor Qianlong sent a golden urn to Lhasa, in which the names of candidates proposed for reincarnation would be placed.
The rail link to Lhasa brought disproportionate benefits to ethnic Han Chinese whose language and culture enabled them to take quicker advantage of the Han tourist influx.
India says the new measures have been put in place partly because China has "superb" communications on its side of the border, especially after a new train line to Lhasa was built in 2006.
The launch on July 1st of the first passenger train services to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, has been covered by the Chinese media with hoopla only comparable to that surrounding the country's first launch of a man into space three years ago.
On March 26th a group of two dozen reporters (selected by officials) was allowed to visit Lhasa, the first such tour since the rioting.
Gangs of workers are rebuilding the Beijing-to-Lhasa road that crosses the Qinghai and Tibetan plateaus: a government minister says China will build 150, 000km (about 94, 000 miles) of new highways in western China over the next decade.
It seems to have begun on the anniversary itself, when police stopped an attempt by monks in Lhasa to demonstrate.
ECONOMIST: The most serious unrest in years shakes the Tibetan capital
Your correspondent, the only foreign journalist with official permission to be in Lhasa (which was applied for and granted well before the unrest erupted) is still allowed to remain.
No photographs have come to light from Lhasa of violence by police or troops on March 14th or 15th, nor of any resulting casualties.
What a relief not to be on the road again 100 days a year--or to have to hire someone to look after her Lhasa apso.
In 2008 demonstrations marking the anniversary of the 1959 uprising led to more violence in Lhasa, resulting in at least 19 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Rioting began to spread on the main thoroughfare through Lhasa, Beijing Road (a name that suggests colonial domination to many a Tibetan ear), in the early afternoon of March 14th.
They might have calculated that tensions in Lhasa were likely to present a growing security headache in the run-up to the games, and that foreign scrutiny would become more intense.
Access to monasteries on the edge of Lhasa, where the unrest first began on Monday March 10th, remains blocked by police.
Many of these monks were from Sichuan, and they returned to their monasteries with tales of Lhasa's upheaval and the recriminations that followed.
Just before the Lhasa riots four advisers to China's parliament proposed that presiding over Yellow Emperor ceremonies should become an annual duty for state leaders.
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By 2012, says a senior official in Lhasa, it will be extended to Shigatse.
Late last month, at secret trials in Lhasa, 30 people were sentenced to prison terms of between three years and life for their role in rioting in March.
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Coming just over a year after a similar outburst in Lhasa, the incident shows that hardline policies designed to suppress dissent have fostered bitter resentment.
In Lhasa, the Tibetan capital usually off-limits to journalists as well the authorities have responded to the recent unrest with increased patrols by armed riot police.
Officials are unlikely to conclude, however, that a lighter touch is any more effective than Lhasa's iron fist.
Sure enough, ethnic-Han Chinese, many of them recent migrants hoping to profit from a train-related tourism boom, were the main targets of the violence in Lhasa.
The astonishing near-total absence of any security deployment across a wide area of Lhasa during the first few hours of the rioting on March 14th last year lends credence to this theory.
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The relay of the Olympic torch through Lhasa was much curtailed for security reasons though officials claimed the truncation was somehow related to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan in May.
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