Backgrounder: Lunar new year
The Chinese will celebrate the lunar new year, or Spring Festival, on Monday. Most people follow traditional cultural elements and customs in China's most festive season. YEAR OF MONKEY Sp ..
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What to do in Losar
The Tibetan New Year, or Loasr, is the most important festival for Tibetans and people of Tibetan-inhabited areas. "Chemar", a rectangular box containing zanba (roasted highland barley flour) dec ..
Flash mob: 'Monkeys' greet Chinese New Year in New York
A flash mob featuring a hundred performers in monkey costumes makes an appearance to celebrate the arrival of Chinese New Year Times Square on Manhattan, York, United States, Feb. 6, 2 ..
Artworks of celebrating coming Year of the Monkey
A kid picks blueprint cloth in the shape of monkey Nantong, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 5, 2016.Folk artists there create various artworks to celebrate coming Year Monkey. ..
Tibetan Buddhists receive blessings ahead of Losar
Large crowds of Tibetan Buddhists gathered at a prominent monastery in the holy city Lhasa on Friday to receive blessings centuries-old religious ritual, prelude for celebrations Los ..
Sutra streamer: Symbol of Tibetan culture
The sutra streamer, a flag made of cloth, silk or handmade paper with Buddhist scriptures on it is believed to bond human and God in Tibetan culture. According the custom, strea ..
Giant Thangka exhibit on 10th Panchen Lama debuts in Xining
A giant Thangka exhibit on the 10th Panchen Lamas is held in Xining Jan. 28, 2016.[Photo/Qinghai News] to commemorate 27th anniversary of passing away ..
Youngest storyteller chants heroic tales received during dreams
Sithar Dorje, the youngest known storyteller of The Epic King Gesar, recites saga in Beijing September. (Photo provided to China Daily) As Ki ..
Masks of Tibetan Opera: Expressions of Tibetan culture
Masks of Tibetan Opera[Photo/VTIBET] Tbetan Opera, or “Akyi Lhamo” in was listed the representatives Intangible Cultural Heritage United Nations 2009. Boasting a ..
China Exclusive: New Tibetan dictionary terms reflect region's progress
Political buzzwords being added to a new Mandarin-Tibetan dictionary reflect positive progress in Tibetan society, according the official linguists advising publishers. On Wednesday, Tibe ..
Cultural protection promoted by Tibet regional political advisors
Tibetan carpet, an ethnic cultural relic under speical protection[Photo/China Tibet News] Over 500 members of Committee the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) ..
Creation of China Daily's Tibetan-style font
The Tibetan-style English font used in the headline of infographics introducing Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/China Daily] "China Daily font" was created as a collaboration between Chin ..
Feature: King Gesar speaks a new tongue
Local folks act as King Gesar in Dege County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, where is believed to be born. (Xinhua photo/Wu Guangyu) King a warrior with ..
Reaching out to the world's youth
What Are You Busy With? by Sodargye.[Photo provided to China Daily] It was already 8 pm on Jan 3 when Sodargye, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, returned his hotel from AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong, w ..
Tibet Tubo museum to open in May
A museum about Tibet Tubo Kingdom will open to tourists in May, it was announced Wednesday. The Museum on a mountainside Qonggyai County, where China's largest group of mausoleums th ..
Tibet to record skills of senior intangible culture inheritors
The Tibet Autonomous Region recently began to launch the recording of artistic skills 10 national-level elderly intangible culture inheritors, China News Service reported. There are currently ..
Tibetan museum establishes digital records of collection
Staff are documenting relics. (Photo/China News Service) Tibet Autonomous Region Museum, located in the regional capital of Lhasa, is digitally cataloging its precious collection. So far, more than ..
Tibetan artistic wonders of Ta’er Monastery exhibited in Paris
The “Exhibition Week of Three Tibetan Artistic Wonders Ta’er Monastery in Qinghai” opened at the Cultural Center European Times suburb Paris, France on Jan.14, Xinhu ..
Tibetan tradition: eat Thukpa Bhathuk for the upcoming New Year
Traditionally, Dec, 29 is the New Year’s Eve on Tibetan calendar. All families will make a traditional food, known as “Thukpa Bhathuk”, hand-rolled noddle soup with br ..
Story of a "King Gesar" narrator
Ani, a 54-year-old Tibetan artist, sits amongst group of herdsmen chatting. It’s hard to believe that man such undistinguished appearance could be “national treasure”. Ani ..
New fonts give Tibetans texting options
The Qomolangma-Horyig font, a popular typeface among the Qomolangma Tibetan fonts, was once reserved for seals of imperial families and living Buddhas. [Photo/CHINA DAILY] release brand- ..
First online New Year’s Gala features 2016 Tibetan grassroots singers
The first online Tibetan New Year’s Gala started on Jan. 12 with 2016 local performers invited to sing together, China Tibet News reported. According the Director of Gala, this year&rsq ..
Lhasa holds a series of New Year culture activities
Photo taken on Jan. 10 shows the Tibetan intangible cultural heritage performance in Lhasa’s Dzongyab Lukhang Park.[Photo/Xinhua] cul ..
Year of Monkey culture exhibition opens in Lhasa
Inheritor of Tibet clay-making skills showcases his work "Golden monkey offering a peach"[Photo/China news] The "2016 Year the Monkey Culture Exhibition" opened in Lhasa on Jan. 10, ..
New standards for Hada making, offering required in Tibet
Tibet will be looking to the public for suggestions on Hada making and offering standards this month, Business Daily reported. Setting local is one o ..