some research

After the Chinese invasion of Tibet, many Tibetans left their country heading to South India, where in 1965 the Indian Minister of External Affairs gave them 5000 acres of vergin forest near Mundgod. Tibetans built there houses and temples in perferct Tibetan style.
Tibetan settlement at Mundgod
http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=12405&pic=ALL (just look at the last picture, n. 9)
Here’s a map of Mundgod:
http://www.dhonden.nl/images/Kaart%20Mundgod%20groot.jpg

In the book, Murphy wrote that Tibetans greeted her and “stuck out their tongues”. Sticking out one’s tongue represents the traditional Tibetan greeting to say hi. Since the book “Stick out your tongue” by Ma Jian was published in 1987, this greeting is strongly connencted with the title of the book describing a very brutal side of the Tibetan society most people were not aware of.