Interesting Gyantse Dama Festival or Gyantse Horse Racing Festival will fall on Jun 23 to Jun 26, 2013. It is time for travelers to prepare for 2013 Gyantse Dama Festival Tour to Tibet now, designing Tibet tour itinerary, applying for Chinese Visa and Tibet permits, booking air tickets, train tickets and hotels. You can also check the Tibet Tour Calendar 2013 for more Tibetan festivals in 2013.
About Gyantse Dama Festival
Gyantse Dama Festival is a traditional Tibet festival for the Tibetans in Gyantse Area. It is said the first Dama Festival was originally for the celebration of the completion of the Palkhor Monastery and the Octagonal Pagoda in Gyantse Area. This festival is established in 1408 and the farmers and herdsmen from every parts of Tibet gather in Gyantse for horse racing, archery competitions, horsemanship display followed by few days' entertainment or picnicking. These days, ball games, track and field events, tug of war are also playing at the field for about a week. The businessmen from every part of the Tibet display some local products and butter system is still there. Generally, the celebration would last for about one week.
What tourists can see on the Gyantse Dama Festival?
- Exciting horse competition.
- A well decorated horse.
- Many horsemen with typical local Ethnic dress up.
- Hundreds of business men displaying the local products.
- Showing different skill during Archery competition.
- Hundreds of Tibetan spectators with typical ethnic dress up.
- You can still observe the ancient butter system there.
- Thousands of foreign visitors and journalist.
- Hundreds of Tibetan tents with full of spectators.
Attractions in Gyantse
Palcho Monastery
Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery is primarily known for the astonishing Gyantse Kumbum, Tibet's largest kumbum (stupa). The monastery complex also includes an ancient Tibetan fort, known as a dzong and a number of residential, administrative and religious structures.
Around 80 monks of the Gelgupa sect live on the monastery grounds, down from around 1,500 prior to the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. The damage suffered by the monastery in 1959 and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) has largely been repaired, although one can still view bullet holes made in walls during the British Expeditionary Force led by Sir Francis Younghusband in 1904.
Gyantse Dzong
Perched on a massive rocky crag looming above Gyantse's Old Town, the 14th century citadel of Gyantse Dzong stands as a bittersweet reminder of Tibet's wrenching passage into the modern world. It also affords a dramatic view of the Old Town and the temple complex of Pelkor Chöde Monastery and the multi-tiered Gyantse Kumbum rising within its walls in addition to windows on several of the most dramatic—and tragic—periods in Tibetan history. Gyantse Dzong: A citadel of Tibetan heroes in a key sense, it was at Gyantse Dzong that this remote region was forceably pushed into the flow of global geopolitics. The shove came in the form of Sir Francis Younghusband and his 1,000-strong contingent of British Expeditionary troops, supported by around 9,000 sherpas and porters, which entered Tibet despite the 13th Dalai Lama's clear request that the British
Shopping in Gyantse
Gyantse is famous for its carpets. The Carpet Factory is tucked away on the north side of Gyantse Dzong. On the left of the Entrance is the sales room and the garish designs are prevalent. Near the factory, many people weave at home, you may be treated to a cup of sweet tea and a quick exhibition.
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