VISITING THE RETING MONASTERY

<正>On hearing Reting Monastery,people always like to mention the uncountable big cypresses there.     

金色世界 阿尔山自驾之旅

秋季的阿尔山地区魅力十足：大兴安岭森林、呼伦贝尔草原、古老的火山地貌、清澈的天池群,这里有西藏一样醉人的蓝天,九寨一样晶莹的溪流。避开拥挤的黄金周,6个人3辆车,我们独享自然的美景奇观。     

WINTER RELIGIOUS CONVENTION IN THE TSUPRU MONASTERY

<正>Senior monk Dusuni Khyenpa from the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism founded the Tsurpu Monastery in 1187;so today it is over 800 years old.     

WINTER RELIGIOUS CONVENTION IN THE TSURPU MONASTERY

Forty kilometers to the west along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, after setting off from Lhasa, there is a bridge crossing over the Todlung River. This is Lungpa Sangpa （Tibetan, meaning the hometown bridge）. Passing over the bridge and walking further into the mountain valley, you can reach the Gurong mountain area. On walking further, you will find a splendid ancient monastery standing on the green mountainside. This is the well-known Tsurpu Monastery situated beneath the snow-covered highlands.     

XAODAIN MONASTERY

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GOLD TILE HALL OF THE TAR MONASTERY UNDER REPAIR

Following in the wake of the repair of some halls at Tar Monastery in the 1992-1995 period, with the help of a State Council allocation to the tune of 37 million Yuan, the monastery will see the repair of its Gold Tile Hall with another 14 million Yuan from the State Council. The repair project has started, and it is expected to be completed before the end of the year. In the 12th year of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Emperor Hong Wu, a Lotus Gathering Pagoda was built in the place where…     

AN INVESTIGATION OF STONE CARVINGS IN THE SAMYE MONASTERY

<正>The fame of the Samye Monastery is unique in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.This monastery, dedicated to the Three Precious Ones(Buddha,Dharma and Sangha),w...     

The BUTTER LANTERN FESTIVAL HELD IN THE LABRANG MONASTERY

On Feb.24,2013,an annual Butter Lantern Festival was held in the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,Gansu Province on the Chinese Lantern Festival.Each Chinese Lantern Festival,the monks would place the butter lanterns made of the Tibetan specialty of yak butter in the square before the sutra hall of the Labrang Monastery as a means to pray for good fortune and harvest.     

A MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT MONASTERY HIDDEN DEEP IN A MOUNTAIN VALLEY OF SOUTH TIBET——A TRAVELODGE ON THE LHALUNG MONASTERY IN LHODRAK

<正>It’s dawn and the mountain valley in south Tibet is silent.There is only the smoke spiraling up from the kitchen chimneys of Tibetan households to greet the ...     

SAGYA MONASTERY:Witness Of National Unification

HistoriansbelieveTibetbecameapartofChinainthemid-13thcenturyduringtheYuanDynasty(1271-1368).TheSagyaMonasteryprovidesiron-cladproofinthisregard.MovingwestwardfromXigazeonereachesSagyaCounty,tuckedawayinhighmoun-tains.Haditnotbeenforthemagnifi-centSagyaMon…     

ON-THE-SPOT RECORD OF THE RESCUING OF ANCIENT BOOKS AND MATERIALS UNEARTHED AT THE PAINGAR MONASTERY

正The Paingar Monastery is situated at the town of Jayul in Luntse County of Lhoka City.It was given the name because of a famous senior monk of the Kagyu Sect of Tibetan Buddhism,Drumpa Padmagyapo(1527-1596),who cultivated himself at this monastery according to Tibetan Buddhist doctrines.It is unknown when the monastery was founded,but it is presently a typical Kagyu monastery.     

TASHILHUNGPO MONASTERY:Ceremony Unveils The Gold-Character Board

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NANWU MONASTERY:Festival Highlighted by Sitting-on-the-Bed Ceremony

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西藏夏鲁寺壁画中的“汉藏合璧”

Shalu Monastery is one of the most famous Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and is seated in Gyatso Shong Township of Shigatse Municipality in the Tibet Autonomous Region.The monastery is rich in murals that total over a thousand square meters in wall space,putting on display a fine example of Tibetan Buddhist mural art from the Yuan dynasty.     

INEQUALITY BEFORE THE BRONZE AGE: THE CASE OF CHALCOLITHIC CYPRUS

The emergence and nature of social inequality has been the topic of a substantial amount of research in recent years, with one group of scholars concluding that social inequality increased significantly with the rise of urbanism on the basis of the application of Gini measures, and another group arguing that social inequalities existed long before urbanism and that not all urban societies were class societies. Here, we present the case of Chalcolithic Cyprus, a decidedly pre-urban period for which we have quantifiable evidence that might indicate social inequality. On the basis of this dataset we will re-evaluate recent postulates on the emergence and nature of social inequality.