A champion of the yak as an emblem of the Tibetan highlands brings the spirit of the animal to a Beijing museum, Wang Kaihao reports. On China's online social networks, Wu Yuchu called himself Yagebo, which means old yak in Tibetan. An ...
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A long-awaited new branch of Taipei's Palace Museum was inaugurated in Chiayi city of south Taiwan on Monday. The project, with an area of about 68 hectares, is made up of a museum building, a green park and a lake. It costs more than ...
Top Chinese leaders watched a New Year gala featuring traditional opera performance on Wednesday evening in Beijing. Leaders of the Communist Party of China and the state, including Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, ...
Zhai Ruiren, a doctor in the Eastern coastal city of Qingdao is treating a patient 1,800 kilometers away via the Internet. The patient, 11-year-old Rinchen from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ...
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Trinley (right) performs at the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa during the Shoton Festival.[Photo provided to China Daily] Trinley, 76, narrates Buddhist folktales depicted in the Thangka paintings using a wooden stick. Usually, it takes hours, ...
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Electricity will be available in all ethnic regions of southwest China's Sichuan Province by the end of December, Sichuan Energy Administration announced Wednesday. With the country's largest Yi ethnic region and second largest Tibetan ...
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"Blue Sky and Pure Land" is a painting exhibition celebrating the diversity and evolution of Tibetan cultural traditions. The exhibition comprises works by a dozen Han and Tibetan painters based on their observation of Tibetan areas and ...
Tsethang serge, considered the finest of all Tibetan traditional fabrics, has reemerged decades after disappearing from the market. Traditionally reserved for lords and high-ranking monks, Tsethang serge has been a symbol of status in ...
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Photo provided to China Daily A production by an ethnic music troupe, titled Tsangyang Gyatso, aims to shine the spotlight on a legendary spiritual leader. Chen Nan reports. The taste for romantic poems and love songs written by ...
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The 20th anniversary of the enthronement of 11th Panchan Lama,Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, is celebrated at the Tashilhunpo Monastery in the city of Xigatze, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Dec 8, 2015. [Photo/Chinanews.com] ...
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Sonthar Gyal (second from right), director of River, attends the Lhasa premiere of the film on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua] With beautiful music and a moving story, the Tibetan film River came to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, ...
Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun. Huang Zhiling/China Daily Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun, was sold for 1.1 million yuan ($171,880) at the Beijing Hanhai 2015 Autumn Auctions on Friday. Wang, professor of ...
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[Photo/Xinhua] Sa Dingding is among the few Chinese pop stars who have grabbed the attention of Western audiences. Her 2007 album, Alive, on which Sa performs in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit and a self-created language, won her the BBC ...
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The Ritual by Sun Zhensheng is one of the gongbi paintings on display at the show Subtlety Transcend. [Photo provided to China Daily] The highly detailed gongbi technique, with a history of 2,000 years, is still held dear by Chinese ...
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A 10,000 yuan ($1,571) reward is being offered to whoever can translate the Sanskit scripture written on a prized collection of 171 Pattra-leaf sutras that will be exhibited at the 3rd Taihu International Buddhism, Tourism and Culture Expo ...
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