THE MODERN FACE of Tibetan Traditional Culture

<正>This series of papers is the phasic result of a research program entitled A Study on the Relationship of Tibetan Buddhism and Ethnic Tibetans, conducted by the"985"Research Center for Contemporary Key Ethnic and Religious Issues of the Central University for Nationalities.Professor Palpal Dorje and his graduate students have worked strenuously for up to 5 years in sociological studies to achieve remarkable results.All papers were published in The Journal of Northwest University Nationalities(Philosophy and Social Science,issue 3,2009).We herewith express our appreciation to Professor Palpal Dorje for his permission to include excerpts from a couple of the papers in this journal.     

Pagoda-Shaped Pictures in Tibetan Rock Paintings

In 2004 we, with our colleagues, went to the Helanshan Ranges in Ningxia to conduct a rock-painting survey for more than a month. We were members of the Rock-Painting Research Center, Ethnology and Sociology College of the Central University for Ethnic Minorities. In the central and northern sections of the Helanshan ranges, we accidentally came upon quite a lot of ＂pagoda-shaped＂ rock paintings of the Xixia period （1038-1227）. These rock paintings consist of two different types.     

2010年中国藏学研究评述——在首届藏学珠峰论坛上的主旨发言(英文)

Honorable experts and scholars: On this frosty winter’s day,we gather here together to hold the first China Tibetology Qomolangma Forum.Hereby on behalf of the China Tibetology Research Center I extend to you our warm welcome and heartfelt thanks.Following the Beijing Tibetology Symposium,Tibetology Qomolangma Awards-giving activities and the Coordination Meeting of Tibetology Work across the Country,the Tibetology Qomolangma Forum is held for the purpose of building another platform for academic exchanges within     

把握历史趋势、探寻发展规律——也谈西藏地方历史发展的三个高潮和两个低谷（英文）

正Ⅰ A national major history project spearheaded by China Tibetology Research Center and participated by many Tibetology institutes in China,the eight-volume General History of Tibet is due out soon.Through thorough study,we systematically surveyed the history of Tibet,and attempted to advance the research and expound some new understanding on the basis of previous work by the Tibetology community home and abroad.     

REGARDING THE NAME OF THE MONTH ＇ITI EZEM A DARA4＇ IN UR III TEXTS

We begin our study of the city of Nippur in the neo-Surnerian period （ca. 2100- 2000 B. C.） with the publication of an unpublished text. This text belongs to the Okayama Orient Art Museum, Okayama-shi, Japan. Prof. Dr. Takashi Taniichi, the curator of the museum, generously permitted me to study and publish it.     

浅析西藏石刻文化(英文)

Throughout human history,our ancestors invari- ably chose stones as their primarily material to be pro- cessed and utilized as tools.Since the dawn of this his- tory when stone tools came into use,stone has been closely related to the development of mankind,the creation of human civilization and the constant progress of human society.A chipped scraper or a pol- ished stone axe can both relate and represent two dif-     

CHINA TIBETAN CULTURE FORUM KICKED OFF IN KATHMANDU

正A two-day China Tibetan culture forum started in Kathmandu on June 6th.China Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong,Deputy Director-General of China Tibetology Research Center An Qiyi and Nepali Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara inaugurated the event with the presence of culture experts,politicians,media personnel and     

LOSING THE WAY IN THE CLAY FOREST

We lost our way while going to Zada County. Andwe lost our way in the Clay Forest in the middle of the night.It is not too far to go from Burang to Zada, where the Clay Forest is located. We moved along leisurely, taking pictures and enjoying the strange landscape. When we got to the foot of Gangrenboqe, it     

15-Year Chronicle of China＇s Tibet

The year 2004 marks the 15^th birthday of our magazine. In that time,we have worked for the goal of showing our readers throughout the world the real Tibet. During the period, we have published 212 issues (Chinese, Tibetan and English editions), containing stories running to hundreds of thousands of words and thousands of photographs. They have told of the     

China's Tibet Readers and Friends Are Welcome to Visit Tibet

Many of our readers have been reading our magazine for years. But very few of them have been to Tibet.The landscape is number one in the world. It is highlighted by the Tibetan culture is unique.However, this is what is described in written language.What is Tibet really like? Is Tibet a region just as described by China's Tibet?We sincerely invite our readers and friends to visit in order to see Tibet with their own eyes and talk to our editors.     

Hand in Hand,and Heart to Heart

The new century has dawned and our work in the past year has drawn to a successful conclusion through the care and concern from our readers. I thank you fromthe bottom of my heart!I came to China 's Tibet in May 1991. when I finished my graduate study in theBeijing Teachers' University, majoring in folklore. I worked for the Chinese andTibetan editions of the magazine, and was transferred to the English edition in 1997.With more readers demanding a better English edition, I was appointed …     

Trains of Youth

正For many people,trains stand for faraway places,dreams,and youth.This is particularly true for the Tibetan youth of my generation.We travel on the long and winding"Heaven's Road"on the plateau to chase our dreams.The railroad is filled with the beautiful memories of our youth.     

Footsteps of History

We have been covering Xigaze over the past 15 years since the commencement ofChina's Tibet. Through these reports we take our readers to that part of the world, introduc-ing them to the people there, the landscape and scenery. However,our reades wrote toexpress their hope to learn more about Xigaze.     

Painting and Photography in Foreigners' Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law

In recent years,with the spread of the internet and the booming auction markets,combined with our new age of so-called "picture-reading," paintings and photographs concerning Qingjustice have overwhelmed our view.Scholars and nonscholars are attracted by them,and believe them to be showing real historical scenes.Pictures seemingly facilitate our grasp of the world more than mere facts do,but they actually demand readers' careful discrimination.The author of the present article has discovered that the initial British construction of a discourse about the cruelty of China's criminal punishments was related to this topic having been exposed by Chinese themselves.The seemingly real images or pictures have an unknown back story,and even contain a serious distortion of the truth.Such imagistic constructions by foreigners in fact directly or indirectly served the establishment and maintenance of foreign extraterritoriality in China.The living images recorded by foreigners' cameras not only constructed Western impressions of China and Chinese people as distant,thus strengthening contemporary Westerners' mental images of Chinese culture,but still urge us Chinese today to interpret the past in the light of such images.An icon of a blood-thirsty Qing legal system constructed through painting and photographic procedures became an objective fact,a collective consciousness that penetrated people's hearts and eventually led to modifications of those Qing laws.The mental construction of an icon influenced actual institutional movement.     

TASHI TSERING,A PAVER OF THE TIBETAN-LANGUAGE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

<正>From dreaming of typing a Tibetan word on the computer to creating Tibetan typefaces and input methods for Microsoft Windows,and then to developing Qomolangma Tibetan typefaces,digitization of the Tibetan language has been apersonal pursuit for several decades for Tashi Tsering,a research fellow at the China Tibetology Research Center.He has witnessed the emergence and rapid development of the Tibetan language on the     

Back to Gamdeling

The Township Village of Gamdeling is situated in District Naiqung, County of Doilungdeqen, Lhasa. It is the place where I began to establish a relationship with Tibet. Halfa Century＇s Concern and Remembrance In the early spring of 1963, as a junior student majoring in Tibetan at the Department of Minority Languages and Literature in the Central College for Nationalities, I set foot in Tibet for the first time. The first place I saw was the Township Village of Gamdeling, where I went to work with the liberated serfs who were undergoing a democratic reform. I helped set up grass roots political power. Being together day and night, I studied Tibetan with them and taught singing to children in the primary school. There, I learned to recite Tsangyang Gyatso＇s poem, On the Peak of the Eastern Mountain, from which the well- known name ＂Makye-ame＂ comes. Since July 20, 1963, the day on which I departed, I have had no opportunity to return to Gamdeling. These years, by radio, newspaper and internet, I got to know that a famous vegetable and flower producers＇ cooperative was built in Gamdeling. I can collect hundreds of reports about Gamdeling on line. The news makes me excited, because I know Gamdeling is going forward with Tibet. How about my old Tibetan friends？ How about their life now？ Who are even still alive？ On August 30, 2011, on the occasion of a short business trip to Lhasa while accompanied by a friend, I stepped on the land again. Tenzin Wodrup＇s Vegetable Greenhouse Across the bridge over Tohlung Chu of the Lhasa River, we entered the area of Gamdeling. For me, everything was so familiar but yet strange! We stopped our car in front of a building with the sign of ＂Vegetable and Flower Exhibition and Trade Center of the Gamdeling Farmers＇ Vegetable Cultivation Cooperative, the County of Doilungdeqen＂. By the gate there was a stall selling local watermelons. Having taken some pictures, we drove northwards into the district of the vegetable greenhouses, intending to find a local and ask the way. It took five or six minutes for our ear to circle around the area, from which, we can see how big the district was. In time, I saw a middle-aged farmer with a bright T-shirt standing on the road. I got out and asked him about Tsering Dondrup. To my surprise, he was from Gamdeling and lived in the same Village of Chabka as Tsering Dondrup, and they were relatives The man＇s name was Tenzin Wodrup. He promised to take us to call on Tsering Dondrup＇s. On both sides of the road that was straight, clean and paved with cement, there stood dozens of vegetable greenhouses in rows.     

HADA PRESENTED TO THE PORTRAIT OF MAO ZEDONG

When I was a child, Mother changed old hada scarfpresented to the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong with new one before the advent of the Tibetan New Year. The portrait stood above the Tibetan cabinet in the central part of our house. My sisters and brothers, and I were brought togeth-er, and we were not sup-posed to speak while Moth-er did this with great respect."Mom, why should we do this every year?" I onceasked Mother."Son, he is none other than our savior," Mother told me.When I gre…     

吉达利著作中的稀见文献(英文)

Part One:Introduction Within the framework of an agreement between the China Tibetology Research Center,Beijing,and the Austrian Academy of Sciences,Junjie Chu had the opportunity to stay at the Center for more than one month each year since 2009     

Eagles Are Hovering at the Cradle of Love Songs

In the late autumn of 2007,the Southwest Branch of China Airlines sent offone A319 airbus,named B6238,to cross over Mt.Gongkya (7556 meters above sea level) and safely land at the Kangding Airport - which is acknowledged as the world's second highest airport.The success of the experimental flight ends the history of unavailabil- ity of civil airline flights in Garze Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province.It also marks the closure of the final preparation phase and readiness to move to the next stage-l...