On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue venue in New York City, a 700-year-old Chinese Buddhist mural exudes a magnificent nobility that captivates eyes and hearts worldwide, including those from its birthplace across the Pacific Ocean.
The series has seventy-nine large scrolls illustrating the Four Tantras of Tibetan classic literature, plus a final scroll showing the lineage of famous physicians, making eighty in total. Made up of several thousand small scenes, the Mantang is widely seen as the world's earliest and most complete set of medical teaching charts
This book follows the trilingual interlinear-guide format. The earlier volume, A Trilingual Guide to the Sites of Trika, was compiled by Tse-lo Gyathar; the present volume, A Trilingual Guide to the Sacred Sites of Tsholho, was compiled by Tse-lo Gyathar together with Mr Stob Ldan after many years of sustained effort and extensive research. Its main content provides concise, clear introductions to the histories of the various monasteries in the Tsholho region.
The black tent is a highly distinctive dwelling of Tibetan herders. It represents a traditional residential culture that has continued to the present day and is regarded as a "living fossil" of the historical and cultural heritage of nomadic peoples.
Among the sands of Dunhuang, where the two great empires of Tang and Tubo once met and manuscripts slept for a thousand years, there lies one of Tubo‘s earliest encounters with the great Indian epic—the Ramayana. Translated into Tibetan sometime between the eighth and ninth centuries, during the Tibetan occupation of Dunhuang, this text stands as a quiet landmark in the history of Tibetan letters.
This article examines the Padma bka' thang，The Testament of Padmasambhava, a seminal Tibetan Buddhist text attributed to the discovery of the treasure-revealer Orgyan Lingpa in the fourteenth century.
Bka' thang sde lnga，meaning The Fivefold Testament，is a significant Tibetan revealed text (gter ma) attributed to the eighth-century master Padmasambhava and rediscovered by the treasure-revealer Orgyan Lingpa.
The story of Boudhanath Stupa (the Great Jarung Khashor Stupa) — Liberation Upon Hearing is an important treasure text of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It links the origin of the Boudhanath stupa in Nepal with the beginning of Buddhism in Tibet.
This bilingual dictionary was the court's answer to this crisis. According to the closing note kept in later Tibetan histories, the work was started by King Khri lde srong btsan (Sadnalegs, ruled about 800–815) at his palace at 'On cang do. The king acted "on the advice of ministers and councillors who judged the available idioms inadequate to achieve consistent renderings of Sanskrit technical terminology."
Recently, by the Xiangqu River, teenagers from the Children's Tibetan Opera Team in Namulin County, Xigaze City, Xizang Autonomous Region wore masks to rehearse Tibetan opera.
Recently, the Tibetan-Chinese bilingual edition of Dharma Parables and precious compilations, originally composed by the great master Potowa and others and translated into Chinese by Gonpo Tsering, was published and released by Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House.
Recently, the final of the street dance special competition, part of the professional dance contest at the 3rd Tibet Culture and Arts Festival, came to a close in Lhasa. This marks the first time that street dance has been included in the official professional dance
Guo Qinglin still remembers a visit to Yumen Pass not long after he joined the Dunhuang Academy in 1999, in Dunhuang, Gansu province. He had followed senior colleagues to inspect the strategic Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) fort, a vital gateway on the ancient Silk Road,
The Medika Wetland National Nature Reserve in Xizang is located in Medika Township, Chali County, Nakchu City, at an average altitude of 4,900 meters. It is a typical plateau lake-marsh meadow wetland. In 2004, it was designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the International Convention on Wetlands
The Complete Collection of Xizang Mural Paintings, a comprehensive series completed over ten years with in-depth participation from nine cultural relics and archaeological institutions including the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Xizang Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics Protection, has been published by Science Press.
A herdsman living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai province falls from a mountain while trying to save a yak. His 12-year-old daughter, Gexiangjiu, sets out to find a doctor and meets Mado, a hearing and speech-impaired boy of the same age who comes from a long line of thangka painters.
Nearly 110 years after its founding, the Tibetan Hospital of the Xizang autonomous region is using modern equipment and telemedicine alongside centuries-old practices to treat chronic illnesses common at high altitudes.
More than 70 rare artifacts, many being shown publicly for the first time, are drawing tourists from home and abroad to the Lhoka Museum in the Xizang autonomous region.
Reba Dance performers in traditional blue costumes perform on a grass field during a grassland cultural festival in Dengqen county, Qamdo city, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Reba Dance is a traditional drum dance in Xizang and also an item on China's list of national-level intangible cultural heritage.
During the Tibetan New Year each year in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Cham dance, an ancient ritual dance that reflects the region's cultural traditions, unfolds across the plateau.
Recently, the "Move for the Future" — "Cheer for Olympics" Olympic Culture on Campus event was held at Guangdong Experimental Primary School in Nyingchi. The event set up interactive classes covering martial arts, rock climbing, football, breakdancing and painting.
