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As Dawa’s family has moved into a newly-built house last November, Lhagod the eldest child undertakes the work of painting murals and interior decoration. Living in Gongkar County of southeast Tibet’s Lhoka Prefecture, Dawa’s family now possesses a two-storey building of nearly 300 square meters. 29-year-old Lhagod is the eldest child of the family, who has…
As the weather gets warmer in Tibet, wintering black-necked cranes in Shigatse Prefecture have packed up for another migration. Habitually they arrive in Tibet to spend winter and leave around March. One of the species under China’s first-class state protection, they are the only crane type that live and reproduce on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the…
Tsurpu Monastery, 4,300 meters above the sea level, is located in Doilungdeqen County, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Founded in 1189, it serves as the traditional seat of the Karma Kagyupa, or “White Hat Sect,” of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Ganden Monastery, one of the four major monasteries of the Gelug Sect in Lhasa, stands on Wangbur Mountain in Dagze County, some 60 km from downtown Lhasa. In 1409, Zongkapa built the ancestral monastery of the Gelug Sect with the financial aid of the royal family of Nedong. Taking Ganden Monastery as the…
Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region has announced plans to add more roads to remote monasteries and villages. The region will spend 200 billion RMB (about 32.67 billion U.S. dollars) on building new roads and repairing old ones in the next six years. Tibet has more than 1,700 registered monasteries and venues for religious activities,…
The 11th Panchen Lama extended his greetings to all Tibetans at home and abroad on Saturday (March 2nd, 2014) the eve of the Tibetan New Year. “On the occasion of the Tibetan New Year of Wood Horse, the occasion of beginning and renewal, I would like to extend New Year greetings to all Tibetan…
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