Midui Glacier of Tibet

Midui Glacier of Tibet

  Midui Glacier is located in the Yupug Township of Pome County, Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the lowest glacier in the world and also an important oceanic glacier. In 2005, Midui Glacier was rated as one of the most beautiful glaciers in China. The main peak of Midui Glacier is 6800…

April 21, 2014 BY Kunga

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Colorful Salt Pans in SE Tibet

Colorful Salt Pans in SE Tibet

  Photo taken on Apr. 17, 2014 shows the vast areas of salt pans in Tsakhalho county, located in the southeast of Tibet with an average altitude of 2,400 meters. As a unique landscape in the world, the salt pan in Tsakhalho has become a tourist magnet. It has been developed as a nature reserve…

April 18, 2014 BY Kunga

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Thangka Exhibition Held in Tibet

Thangka Exhibition Held in Tibet

  Audiences watch a Thangka exhibition held in the Mass Art Center of Tibet in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 10, 2014. Themed as “artistic charm from fingertip“, the exhibition showcases over 30 pieces of Thangka works from more than 10 inheritors of Khentse genre, a major genre of Tibetan Thangka.

April 17, 2014 BY Kunga

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Nepal Fever in Lhasa

Nepal Fever in Lhasa

  With a long history of trade contacts, southwest China’s Tibet has developed a close relationship with Nepal. Many Nepalese take Tibet as their second home. And, the “Nepal fever” in Lhasa gets more prevalent with Nepal’s food and condiments imported into the region. Since the 1990s, Nepalese restaurants have sprung up in Lhasa. Besides the famous…

April 16, 2014 BY Kunga

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Drak Yerpa-Secret Fane in Cliffs

Drak Yerpa-Secret Fane in Cliffs

Drak Yerpa, located in Dagze County of Lhasa with at an altitude of around 4,000 meters, is one of the fanes constructed under the order of Songtsen Gampo, the 7th century Tibetan king, as a gift to his concubine, and later became one of the four main monasteries for meditation in Tibet. Famous for its…

April 15, 2014 BY Kunga

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Migration of Black-necked Cranes

As the temperature rises in the spring, more than 40 black-necked cranes migrate to the Hongyuan grassland in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Due to the heavy snow and cold weather at the beginning of this year, the number of black-necked cranes to the Hongyuan grassland decreased compared…

April 14, 2014 BY Kunga

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Khada-A Cultural Icon of Tibetan People

Presenting khada is a widespread etiquette unique to the Tibetan people, which is to show respect or pray for Buddha’s blessings. Khada is often presented to guests and seniors as a way to show respect and regards on festive occasions, weddings and funerals, and to deities out of pious respect or for Buddha’s blessings on…

April 11, 2014 BY Kunga

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Ticket Price to Increase at Potala Palace in May

From May 1 to Oct. 31, admissions to the Potala Palace in Lhasa will be lifted to 200 yuan (32USD) per person which is 100 (16 USD) currently, according to the administration office of the Potala Palace on April 7. The fluctuation is aimed to keep daily tourist capacity steady within 4000 in a bid…

April 10, 2014 BY Kunga

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10 Tibetan Monks Obtain Lharampa Geshe Degree

10 eminent monks obtained Lharampa Geshe, the highest degree in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, by passing a traditional sutra debating test in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday. More than 100 monks attended the debating session at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, where the 10 candidates from 10 monasteries of Gelug Sect in…

April 9, 2014 BY Kunga

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Huge Funds Put into Improving Facilities, Service of Kumbum Monastery

Over 900,000 million RMB has been recently invested in renovating the Kumbum Monastery in Qinghai Province. The investment will help present the unique charm of the Kumbum Monastery, one of the holy lands of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The two-year project will involve the construction of the gate and integrative landscape corridor as…

April 8, 2014 BY Kunga

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