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…

  Photo shows that a craftsman is making a golden ware in his workshop in Shigatse Prefecture, in late February, a few days before Losar, the traditional Tibetan New Year, which falls on March 2 this year. The metal wares are in great demand on the market for local residents as the Losar is just…

  A job fair with about one thousand job opportunities will be held at 10 am, Feb 28 in Lhasa. It will be the first in Tibet after 2014 Spring Festival. Employers in this job fair are from various lines of business including hotels, supermarkets, real estate and auto sales. A total of 924 job…

  Nyingchi, “throne of the sun” in Tibetan language, is located in the southeastern part of Tibet, where the Himalaya Mountains and Nyainqentanglha Mountains extend from west to east, like parallel huge dragons, to join the Hengduan Mountains in the east. Nyingchi, with a total area of 117,000 square km and a population of more than 140,000,…

  As the 2014 Losar approaches, new fragrant cloths hang over the windows of the Potala Palace to replace the old ones. Fragrant cloth refers a decorative kind of colorful cloth streaks hanging on the windows and doors of Tibetan traditional architectures. The tradition requires the cloth to be changing on a yearly basis before…

  The Tibet Ancient Books Protection Center launched in the Sera Monastery Institute of Tibet Buddhist College in Lhasa, Feb.20, 2014. It was reported that the Tibet Ancient Books Protection Center has finished the general survey and registration of ancient books preserved in Tibet’s Ngari Prefecture, Nagchu Prefecture, Lhoka Prefecture, Nyingchi and Lhasa. Altogether 158…

  Tibetans have started to make prayer flag trees to pray for good harvests and good luck in the coming Tibetan New Year (or Losar). The “prayer flag tree” is made of tree branches sewed with multicolored sutra streamers in the sequence of blue, white, red, yellow and green from the top to the bottom. The sequence of…

  The Yarlung Zangbo River is located at the Tibet Autonomous Region and a river with the highest altitude in the world. The total length of the Yarlung Zangbo River in China is 2,057 kilometers, ranking the 5th longest river among the famous rivers of China. Yarlung Zangbo is like a sliver dragon, running from…