The thousand-year old legend of Namtso Lake says: “Those who sit here in meditation for a while would be rewarded satori and Bodhisattvabhumi”. It is said that Namtso is the wife of the god of Nyenchen Tonglha Mountains and the incarnation of Vajrayogimi–mother of Buddh in her supineness. She owns complete body, speech and mind.…

The king and queen of Guge kingdom were pious Catholics. They, together with other residents of the city, suddenly vanished overnight. Nobody knows the reasons for this oddity. The Guge’s disappearance is world mystery, just like Pompeii. In addition, the frescoes of Guge kingdom is beyond words and of great importance even in modern times.

Snow leopard, an endangered species, is a flagship that guides mountain biodiversity, a notable symbol of the highest altitude of the world, an environment envoy that promotes establishment of transnational park and natural reserves, and indicator of healthy mountain ecosystem. It is not only a representative species of Asian plateau regions especially Tibetan Plateau, but…

Tibetan antelopes live a gregarious life in alpine highlands, alpine meadows, high frigid deserts, surrounding lakes and swamps of 3,250 to 5,500 meters above the sea level. They go out and forage every dawn and dusk. In winter and spring, as the food is scant, they are often found to be busy with food hunting.…

The major colors used in the frescoes in Guge and Tholing Monastery are red, orange and yellow, together with big areas of rock black and rock green colors. The aesthetic effect is close to that of the Dunhuang frescoes: sublimity mixed with elegance, symmetry with harmony, feminity with masculinity, melancholy with heroism, and sublimity with…

My trip on the Tang-Tibet Road started with enthusiastic Dengqun Repa dancing. As the tempo became more and more intense, my trip amazed me with more and more surprises. Upon entering Qusog Countym a beautiful rainbow bridged the valley we had past and behind us was white earth. The highway went through the rainbow arch…

The legend of snowman is told mainly in the south area of Himalayas, meanwhile it also circulates east to Indo-Myanmar border, west to Karakorum, and north to the vast region of Tibet and Pamir. In this area, the legend of snowman that has great stature and aggressive temperament has existed for hundreds of years. There…

Without scales, Gymocypris przewalskii are almost naked and so it is called “naked carp”. All the year round, they swim freely in Yamdroktso Lake, a natural fishpond, and live comfortably. Naked carps belong to cold water fish. They like to live in shallow water as well as whirlpool water area near the shoal and places…

Divaricate Strophanthus Seed is also called Gelsemium elegans Benth. It has red or yellow flowers and hyper toxic roots. Tseren’s family maintains frequent contacts with Divaricate Strophanthus Seed. Tseren’s family is the only family that makes Tibetan paper at present. They pick Divaricate Strophanthus Seeds, cut off their flowers, leaves and stems, and take the…

After a night of rest and reorganization, the survived demoiselle cranes set out even earlier than yesterday and arrived at the peak again. The snowstorm seemed died down a little. A new day being a new opportunity, the birds stayed closer to each other, but their calls were obviously not as loud as yesterday. Several…