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Sakya Monastery – built in 1073 A.D. in the Sakya County of Shigatse Prefecture, the Sakya Monastery is the patriarch temple of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The temple was enlisted as one national key cultural relic protection site by the State Council in 1961. Taking up an area of 45,000 square kilometers,…
Mt. Kailash, also called Gang Rinpoche, lies near Lake Manasarowar and Lake Rakshastal in Nagri of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Gang is the Tibetan word for snow peak and rinpoche is an honorific word meaning “precious one”, so the combined term can be translated into “precious jewel of snows“. It is considered a sacred…
In the winter of 2013, Angela, a 7-year old girl from China, together with her parents and brother traveled across the Himalaya range. They drove from Nepla to Tibet, passing through plain, canyon and high plateau. The highest point (5300 meters above sea level) they reached was the Himalaya Observation Deck, located in the Tingri…
Photo shows a Tibetan artist works on a piece of Thangka painting at the scene during an exhibition held in the National Museum of China. Altogether 65 masterpieces by Nyangbon, an inheritor of Regong Thangka, are on show from April 10 to May 13. Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province is the hometown…
Solar halo observed in Tibet on May 5th, 2014, and lasts 3 hours in Lhasa. It is a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of sun, cause by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
As the second season of the documentary “A Bite of China” premiered in China, Tibetan cates that appeared in the film also caught audiences’ eyes. Owning a history of over 100 years, now tea houses majoring in sweet tea has been densely covering Lhasa city, providing unique leisure time for more and more local…
A snow leopard was found in the Derub Village of Risum Township of Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region on April 21, 2014. Around 12:00 o’clock in the morning, Sonam Dondrup, a local villager reported that a wild animal attacked the sheepfold and was caught by the villagers. After the staff confirmed…
2014 Sumzom Horse Racing Festival was held in Sumzom township of Bome County, Tibet, in the past couple of days, with over 4,000 people taking part in. Sumzom Horse Racing Festival involves many activities, among which are horse racing, horsemanship, folk dances, and field races, to name a few. Not only local residents in…
Tibetan pilgrims fully enjoy the religious freedom to take ritual walks, pay homage to Buddha, burn incense, give alms and conduct other religious activities during traditional religious festival. Tibet reports above 1,700 temples and monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism so far with 46,000 registered monks and nuns. Small prayer halls or shrines are virtually popular…
Wild honey produced from Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet has become popular on electronic business platform, as the second season of the documentary “A Bite of China” premiered, Tibet Commercial News reported. In the first episode of “A Bite of China” (II), audiences’ eyes were caught by the story of a Tibetan honey hunter Pema…
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