HANDICRAFTS BOOST VILLAGER'S INCOME IN MAINLING

<正>Some Tibetan people regard it as a luxury or of high class to drink tea or wine in a silver-plated wooden bowl,with such bowls mostly made in Tibet's places of lower attitude like in eastern Nyingchi City.Known as the Tibetan medicinal world,the region's Mainling County     

MADAM LEI JUFANG AND HER PROGRAM ON THE INHERITANCE OF TIBETAN MEDICINE

<正>At 9:50 in the morning on Sep.13th,2014,the eleven of us in"the Interview team to Southwest Tibet"finally arrived at the Nyingchi Mainling Airport,the most difficult airport in China at which to land a plane,despite it being at Tibet's lowest altitude.Setting our feet on the land of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley,we thought of what it was like in the air as we traversed the alpine region,where the narrowest space was no further than 4     

The History and the Technological Study of Traditional Tibetan Painting Pigment

1.The History of Traditional Ti-betan PigmentsLike all societies whose origins predate the inven-tion of the written word,many aspects of prehistoricTibet are lost in a blur of mystery.Yet archeologistsare digging into the ruins left by Tibet's earliest hu-man inhabitants to help carve away the lack ofknowledge,just as art historians are examining ancientpaintings left inside Tibetan caves to sketch out thecontours of prehistoric life and art on the Roof of theWorld.     

Lhundrup Tsomo Loves Those Birds Flying All over Her Village

During the 1970s, just at the period of ＂learning from Dazai＂, the government of the TAR built a water reservoir at the bottom of the mountain shaped like the head of a tiger. Accordingly, people refer to this to as the ＂tiger-headed＂ water reservoir. Since water was avaiJable, various flocks of birds come to stay, including many bJack-necked cranes that have Jevel one national protection. This is what Lhundrup Tsomo and her fellow villagers refer to as ＂Kyung Kyung Dkar Nag＂ （Tibetan,refers to black-necked cranes） in Tibetan.     

THE “DREAMWORK” OF TIBETAN CHILDREN

<正>Editor's Note:In the1980s,the State Council made a strategic decision to set up Tibetan classes and schools in the mainland to solve Tibet's serious shortage in talent,not to mention its poorer educational basis.In September of 1985,the first group of Tibetan elementary school graduates,mainly of Tibetan nationality,went to study in the mainland,setting     

Aquatic Bird Winter In Lhunzhub County （Ⅱ）

EDITOR＇S NOTE The water birds wintering in Lhunzhub are peculiar to the many wetlands subject to special protection in Tibet. With a view to preventing overspending and destroying the hilly areas and the grasslands, the State has been working hard to seek protection of the wetlands, and the Forestry Bureau of Lhunzhub County seeks to control soil erosion by planting trees and gross. The problem is that the lacul.farmers are still ploughing the.fields deeper and deeper so as to increase their grain output, which endangers the living conditians of those water birds that survive by hunting for leftover grain in the fields, and the black-necked cranes especially are now on the verge of extinction.     

QULHC

What is ＂Qulho＂？
＂Qu＂ is water and ＂Lho＂ is electricity. Therefore, a literal translation of＂Qulho＂ is ＂water electricity＂. It is, in fact, a hydroelectric plant including a small generator that produces power as water flows through it. Half of the houses in the village have a Qulho connection. When you come to Yerpa, please do not be shocked by the cobweb of wires everywhere. These wires were strung-up by villagers to run their Qulho power supply.     

地热之城羊八井（英文）

正In Tibetan,the word yangbajain means "wide" or "broad".The term is also used as the name of the town under the jurisdiction of Damshung County,Lhasa.Found90 kilometers northwest of Lhasa at an altitude of around 4,300 meters above sea level,the place is worldrenowned for its hot springs.The amount and quality of the spring water is difficult to fathom.Some say the temperature of the water is the highest naturally found in China,ranging from 93 to 172 degrees Celsius.Tibet has the highest proportion of hot springs in China.These are both large and small,but     

地热之城羊八井

In Tibetan,the word yangbajain means "wide" or "broad".The term is also used as the name of the town under the jurisdiction of Damshung County,Lhasa.Found90 kilometers northwest of Lhasa at an altitude of around 4,300 meters above sea level,the place is worldrenowned for its hot springs.The amount and quality of the spring water is difficult to fathom.Some say the temperature of the water is the highest naturally found in China,ranging from 93 to 172 degrees Celsius.     

Songs Wafted From the Tea-Horse Trade Route(Ⅱ)

When we got to the Naxi ethnic town in Yanjin, it was already dark. We were taken to theQoizeka Hot Spring, with an elevation of some 2,000 meters. The Hot Spring Swimming Pool, fed with water from 108 springs, is as large as half a football field. As it is close to the Lancangjiang River, our ears were filled with the roaring sound of the river.We met at an academic meeting in a pavilion by the river after dinner. It was agreed that the Henduan Mountains constitute one of the three major areas where the world's plants are concentrat-     

Protection of The Eco-Environment In Tibet

Efforts to protect Tibet's environment have achieved satisfactory economic and social results.Beginning in the 1980s, Tibet began to enact rules and regulations for the protection of the eco-environment, treatment of pollution, and control of pollution at source.At present, the region is making efforts to revise the Regulations for Environmental Protection to guarantee healthy economic development. In 2001 and 2002, efforts were made on four occasions to examine the execution of the environmental protection law. This     

Taking Pictures for the Villagers

The township sent out a notice that all villagers should be photographed as part of the datacollection effort for the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme （NCMS） and it was hoped that the work team could help carry this out. We all wanted to help, but knew that it would not be easy. It was during a busy farming season, so it was difficult to gather the villagers （most of whom were busy working in the fields）. First we set up a simple photography studio in the village committee. The only piece of equipment we owned was a tripod and we used the bare wall of the committee building as a backdrop for the photos. As the day drew to a close, the villagers came in twos and threes, most of them straight from the fields. Then facilities for villagers to freshen-up were provided, including a basin of water, towels, and comb for them to tidy up before the shoot. But the villagefolks were often too shy to wash up in front of us, and even after our gentle persuasion, they would just splash some water on their faces. Sometimes, we, the photographers, had to help them with their hair and general appearance. Fortunately, they were completely at ease with that.     

Policy Changes With Regard To Tibetan Language(Ⅰ)

Beginning after the peaceful liberation of Tibet, major towns and cities in Tibet moved toward a bilingual society while the farming and pastoral areas continue to follow the old linguistic tradition. Tibet's linguistic policies over the past 50 years, therefore, have been enacted to cope with the region's specific characteristics.     

On the Relationship between the Central Government and the Local Government of Tibet in the Late Qing Dynasty

After the Opium War in 1840, China was more and more semi-colonized. Around the turn of the 20th century, the national strength of the Qing Empire was quickly weakening. As a result, the Qing Court exercised a weaker rule over Tibet, and its political relationship with Tibet was consequently affected. On the problems of how to resist foreign invasions and how to handle Tibet's internal affairs, the Qing Court and     

MY COUSIN,AN EMINENT MONK

<正>Chapter Three I came back that afternoon to check on him.Dressed in his kasaya,he was seated in the lotus position with his back straight.His cheeks were rosy,his voice clear,and his expressions unreadable.Offerings symbolizing cleanliness such as dried fruits,flowers,clear water,and white conch were placed on the square table in front of him.He gestured to the seat cushion     

News in Brief

正Tibet's Largest Metal Structure Plant Goes into Production The largest metal structure plant in Tibet,the Nyingchi Metal Structure Plant officially started its production on June 18th.The plant focuses on developing,manufacturing and installing woodworking machinery devices,municipal buildings as well as bridge steel.This plant is responsible for the manufacture of a few large-scale projects,such as the arch bridge on the Lhasa-Shigatse Railway.     

THE LEGENDARY PRINCIPLE OF TIBET'S SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND

<正>Tibet's school for the blind was founded in 1999 by the blind German woman Sabriye Tenberken,who was not only the first person to establish a school especially for blind girls,but also the inventor of Tibetan braille.This institution nurtured the first educated blind people within all of Tibet,the first Tibetan group for the blind all being former students at this school.     

INDEX 2017

正SPECIAL Qi Zhala:A Heart in Close Connection with the Masses 3:04 Bringing the Wishes of People in Tibet to Beijing 3:10 Forging ahead:Tibet's Achievements in the Past Five Years 6:04 ECONOMYSOCIETY Impressions of Maizhokunggar 1:04 The Development of Rural School     

THE HISTORY OF TIBETAN MEDICINE

1. Origins The search tot the means to maintain health is as ancient as the civilization of man. There is a Tibetan saying that： ＂the first ailment was indigestion; and boiled water,the first medicine,＂ There are many such expressions through which we can deduce the knowledge of ancient times. For example, the application of melted butter to cauterize a wound, or the drinking of boiled water to cure indigestion, tell us something of traditional household treatments. Such experiential knowledge, gathered and passed on for many generations, gradually was collected and became a written tradition.     

Home Visits

Once the work team had settled in, we started visiting the villagers in their homes to get the lay of the land. There are four unincorporated villages in Yerpa： Gogo and Yulo are downstream on the east bank of Nujiang River; Sengo, the one in the middle, is the seat of the village committee, and Dangran Village, a hour＇s walk from Sengo （upstream and to the west） is the smallest and most remote. Accordingto old statistics, there was a population of 489 in the 78 households in Yerpa Village. That made it a relatively big administrative village. It is also typical of the eastern river valley region of Tibet, with features such as deep valleys, steep mountains, a widely dispersed population over a wide area, the shortage of arable land, a dry climate and lack of transport facilities. Currently a road runs past the village but there is still no electricity, telecommunications, schools, medical services.., or safe drinking water. In the past people had to use a cable slide to cross the Nujiang River and then walk another 10 kilometers to get to Junyong Village in Dombang Township of Dzogong County. In order to continue on to the county seat of Dzogong there was another steep mountain to climb. On looking up from Yerpa Village, the highway was like a thread hanging from the clouds. The villagers used to climb Khekela on the other side of Nujiang River to reach Temtok Town of Dzogong County. Our legs almost gave way just from looking at that narrow trail. But the villagers had to rely on it to go to the nearest town for selling produce and shopping. Sometimes they would return on the same day. Our visit started from the village of Dangran. Since it was farthest from where we were, we decided to tackle the hard stuff first. Dangran Village had sent several horses and mules to us so we could use them to carry our gifts, plus a bottle of cooking oil bought in the county seat, for each family. On the gravel road that doubled as a water channel, the horses were fine but the mules liked to head for the thorn bushes by the roadside.