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Saving A Tibetan Tradition
Dec 18, 2015Trinley (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, ...
Tags: Trinley, ancient art, Tibetan Tradition
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Painting Exhibition Celebrates Tibetan Culture
Dec 16, 2015"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 ...
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Expo Offers 10,000 Yuan to Translate Sacred Sutras in Sanskrit
Nov 4, 2015A 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 ...
Tags: Pattra-leaf sutras, Tibetan culture, reward, translate
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Cutting Cliches
Oct 28, 2015Tibetan moviemakers are increasingly moving away from themes of scenery and mysticism to tell people stories. The Tibetan-language movie Tharlo has been nominated in four categories for this year's Golden Horse Award, a prestigious annual ...
Tags: movie, Cutting Cliches, culture
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Tibetan Opera Attracts Both Young and Old
Aug 18, 2015Holding a string of Buddhist prayer beads, 80-year-old Lhasa resident Doje sits in a park crooning in a crowd gathered for a performance of famous Tibetan opera Padma Obar. As the opera starts, the crowd falls silent in anticipation. ...
Tags: Tibetan Opera, cultural heritage
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Curator of The World's First Yak Museum Sparked a Tibetan Cultural Craze
Mar 17, 2015The curator of the world's first yak museum sparked a Tibetan cultural craze when he visited Peking University on Mar 13 to give a two-hour lecture. Wu Yuchu, curator of the Yak Museum of Tibet, introduced the social and cultural ...
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The Introduction of Mask of Tibetan Opera
Dec 7, 2012Called "ba" in Tibetan, masks are mainly used for various folk performing arts and have direct links with people's daily life, work and entertainment. They are popular across Tibet. Masks used in Tibetan operas are developed from the ...
Tags: folk performing arts, tibetan operas mask, drive away ghosts
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The Introduction of Thangka
Dec 6, 2012Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Dakpa Kelden is discussing Thangka painting skills with his students in his office in a two-story Tibetan-style building. The middle-aged Tibetan man is a principal founder of the Thangka Center and the ...
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Yushu's Culture,Myths and Legends
Dec 4, 2012Yushu, a remote county in the depths of northwestern China's Qinghai Province, used to be two days' drive from the nearest airport in the provincial capital Xining. As the source of China's three major rivers, center of Kham Tibetan ...
Tags: Yushu, remote county, Myths and Legends
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Tibet Is a Land of Mystery and Home to One of China's Most Ancient Ethnic Groups
Dec 4, 2012The number of people of the Tibetan ancestry is placed at 4,593,330. They mainly live in Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces such as Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibet, the roof of the world, is a land of ...
Tags: minority peoples, Chinese people, Tibetans
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The Saga Dawa Festival Is Celebrated on The 15th Day of The 4th Tibetan Month
Nov 29, 2012The Saga Dawa festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 4th Tibetan month and is one of the most important religious festivals celebrated in Tibet. This auspicious day coincides with three important events in Buddha's life namely his ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
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The Shoton Festival Is a Traditional Tibetan Festival Held From The End of June
Nov 28, 2012The Shoton (Xuedun) Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival held from the end of June of Tibetan calendar to the beginning of July. It is also called "Yoghurt Festival", for it means a festival to drink yoghurt in the Tibetan language. ...
Tags: Xuedun Festival, Chinese traditional festival, chinese traditions