The Lingering Affections OF A JOURNALIST

正A story in which a photographer helped a Tibetan girl to obtain treatment from doctors during his interviews in Tibet Autonomous Region was moved to a stage performance in the Grand National Theatre.Although this photographer has left Tibet many years ago,he is still the"prototype"of this stage performance.     

A Pioneer in Social Studies in Tibet

In May 1942, Li Youyi published his book on Han-Bo trade and the economic and educational organizations in Tibetan lamaseries. With 60 years devoted to Tibetan studies, Li is indeed a pioneer in the field. Now, aged 90, he is widely regarded as a sociologist who pioneered social studies in Tibet.Li entered Tibet in 1944 together with Shen Zonglian, Liu Shengqi and Li Maoyi. They belonged to the Office in Charge of Tibetan Affairs, stationed in Lhasa by the Nationalist government. The decision was made following the     

FIRST TIBETAN WEATHER OBSERVER VISITS THE SOUTH POLE

Thousands of scientists in the world have visited the South Pole for scientific survey, but one of the most unique is Benba Cering from Tibet and the first Tibetan to do the work. Sent by the Chinese Academy of Meteorology and its Tibetan Branch, he stayed at the South Pole for 15 months.Benba, now 28, graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1996, and was assigned to remote sensing work in the Tibet Academy of Meteorology. Three years later, he was invited to receive tra…     

Who Has the Rights to Talk About the Human——Rights of Tibetans

At present, Tibetan human rights are a hot topic amongst some people right around the world. On the face of it they sound plausible. But as a matter of fact, they have absolutely no idea of what “Old Tibet” （referring to the time before the peaceful liberation in 1951） was really like, how the Tibetan slaves/serfs lived in old Tibet and how they survived in an appalling lack of numan rights in those days.     

On the ＂Middle Way＂ of the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama has, in recent years, been telling the world he has stopped seeking ＂Tibetan independence＂ and turned towards a ＂middle way＂. By this, he says, he means ＂high-level autonomy＂ or ＂real autonomy＂ in Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas within the framework of the Chinese Constitution. Only by doing so, he has argued, can Tibet best protect its unique traditional culture, religion and eco-environment, and can the unification and unity of China be maintained. （On March 10, 1959, the reactionary upper class in Tibet staged a counter-revolutionary armed rebellion. When it was suppressed,     

When Tibetans Meet Hip-Hop

<正>An ever increasing number of modern cultural elements has become part of Tibetans'life in recent decades,and hip-hop is certainly one of the new fads gaining popularity with the younger generation all across the plateau.TNT is a famous hip-hop crew in Lhasa,and its membership has grown from 3 to 30 within a single decade.TNT stands for"Totem in Tibet",and the group was established by Namkha Wangchen,a promoter of Tibetan hip-hop culture.Namkha Wangchen said he liked the popular dance when he was still in middle     

What Gave Thubten Palden the Idea to Burn Himself？

Thin and dressed in a red, yellow-lined monk＇s robe, 24-year-old Thubten Palden was seated quietly before me. His purity and simplicity were touched with a little shyness. It was hard to believe that such a young monk of the Nyingma Sect had the clear intention to burn himselfi Thubten Palden said that the idea occurred to him after he had an Internet chat with a Tibetan woman who was in India last summer. Intruth, the Tibetan woman （named ＂Trewa Online＂） is responsible for the overseas network of＂Independent Tibet＂.     

THE ORIGINS OF THE DALAI LAMA REINCARNATION SYSTEM

正Toward the beginning of the 1400s, the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism came into existence, and it was not long before a man by the name of Gedun Druppa, a disciple of the great Master Tsongkhapa during his later years, established the school's largest monastery in Tsang region (in today's Shigatse City of Tibet Autonomous Region):the Tashilhunpo Monastery. When he died, talk     

On the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lozang Thubten Gyatso

The thirteenth Dalai Lama Ngawang LozangThubten Gyatso was a very spectacular and complexcharacter on the political stage of Tibet in moderntimes.His experience of a lifetime of frustrations re-flected the then tempestuous and changeable situation.Any evaluation of a Tibetan political and religiousleader has always been a contentious problem in aca-demic circles,because it involves the explanation andexposition of relations between the Tibetan local gov-ernment and the Central Government after the Revo-lution in 1911. For a long time I have had a keen inter-est in the“the Great Thirteenth,”as he has been called.After a long period of study I have formed my view-point on this historical figure, and I present it here to     

The glorlous life of a tibetan centenarian

hi Feb. 1910, he was born in a manor of Horkhang family in Gyama Valley in Maizhokunggar Cotunty which was 100 kilometers from Lhasa City. He was instructed by Sherab Gyatso, the famous scholar from Qinghai Province. In 1934, he formally became the heir of the Ngabo family. In Feb, 1951, he was appointed by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Kasang Government （the local government of Tibet） as chief negotiator with the central government in Beijing.     

Old Shezang＇s Story

The Namseling Manor rests on a site by a river, south of Samye Monastery and within the boundary of Namseling Village, County of Chanang in Lhoka Prefecture. The Manor was built during the Phagdrup regime. The Namseling Manor is a model of Tibetan feudal serfdom society. As an early, large-scalemanor house built in a time when Tibetan society lived under a serf-based regime, Namseling has survived hundreds of years as a witness to the formation and development of a feudal manor. After democratic reform in Tibet, the Namseling Manor stood deserted for more than half a century. The present manor, no longer what it once was, has embraced many life stories, including that of Shezang. The now elderly Shezang was born in Nagqu in 1927. Both his parents were servants in the nobleman＇s household. At 14 he was taken to Lhasa to work as a babysitter. The next year his parents passed away one by one. A fellow villager told him the news when he returned to Namseling at 26. Shezang has a younger sisterbut they were separated in Nagqu when both were still young. They never met again.     

Designer of The 100-Tael-Silver-Denominated Tibetan Currency

Three Generations of Painters Dainba Raodain, whose father was Zongdog Galsang Norbu, was born in 1941. He used to be an elementary school teacher, while also carrying out research on the Tibetan epic King Gesar, and he served as a fine art editor for a publishing house. In 1980, Dainba Raodain was transferred to Tibet University to teach art. He won the Excellence In Teaching Achievement Prize from the State Education Commission in 1990, and the Prize of the Wu Zuoren International …     

HIGHLIGHTS

King Gesar is a focus of study in and outside China. Accomplished scholars include:——Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969): A noted French expert in Oriental studies, Chinese and Tibetan studies in the 20th century, she visited Tibet and surrounding areas five times for survey. Her treatises and diaries related to the Orient, especially to Tibet and related areas, were translated into many languages and published repeatedly.——Ren Neiqiang (1894-1989): A noted geologist, an expert in ethnic groups and a pioneer in Tibetan studies. From 1939 to 1944, he published his Initial Introduction to "Tibetan Three Kingdoms" and "On the Three Kingdoms" in Border Government Affairs Forum and Kangdao Month.——R.A. Stein (1911-1999): He is held as the most successful Tibetan study worker in France in the 20th century. And he was one of the few who could do research in both Tibetan and Chinese. His contribution to the study of King Gesarfinds expression in his effort to translate the epic.——Wang Yinuan (1907-1998): A     

An All-Tibetan Linguistic Worker——Dr. Ngaco Rises Through Hard Study

Ngaco was born into an ordinary herder's family in Chengzhang Village, Yajiang County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in 1969. When he reached the age of five, his father packed his satchel and sent him to a school where he eventually served as a teacher. The minute he sat down in his classroom, the boy showed strong interest in study. He became so good that he could tell stories to fellow villagers within two years.As the school was only in a position     

TIBETAN GARMENTS:A Dazzling Variety——Comments on Tibetan Garments in China

To cope with the world-wide need for more knowledge about Tibet, the Beijing Publishing House and the Tibet People's Publishing House have jointly published China Tibetan Garments. It treats Tibetan garments in terms of different locations and different types.The picture album is packaged in a box produced in a traditional Tibetan way and has woven fabrics as its cover. An introductory article written by Lhaba Puncog, chief of the China Tibetology     

Pole Acrobatics of sakya County

Originated from very early years in Tibet, pole acrobatics is a typical traditional folkloric acrobatics which pervades in Tibetan community, in particular was popularized during Tubo period. On the mural of Samye, paintings display tens of ways to practice such acrobatics. During the 17th century, the fifth Dalai Lama overthrew Tsangpa Khan＇s regime in Shigatse, with the support of Mongolia Chieftain, Gushri Khan. Soon, he found Geden Potrang Kingdom.     

MY EXPERIENCE DURING THE PEACEFUL LIBERATION OF TIBET

EDITOR'S NOTE: Puncog Zhaxi was born in 1924 in Amao, Qinghai Province. in 1951, when he was 28,he was involved in the signing of the 17-Article Agreement, which later won the support of the 14thDalai Lama, and helped to accomplish the peaceful liberation of Tibet.When the People's Republic of China wasfounded on October 1, 1949, the CentralPeople's Government called for the localgovernment of Tibet (known in Tibetanas Gaxag) to send a delegation to peacetalks in Beijing. Encourage…     

Not Just the Center, the Periphery, Too

“It means nice place in the Tibetan language,” he says. I tell him that the Yarlung Tsangpo is not such a “nice place” for the people of Assam living downstream-because it has repealed its annual flooding venture. But in Tibet, the Tsangpo flows peacefully from its birth in the Kailash range in the far west of the Tibetan plateau.     

I WOULD LIKE IN A PRACTICAL WAY,TO SERVE THE MASSES:INTERVIEW WITH JAMPA PHUNTSOG,THE CHAIRMAN OF TAR

On May 16th,2003,Jampa Phuntsog,on wining the most votes at the second session of the eighth People's Congress of Tibetan Autonomous Region(TAR),was chosen to be the chairman of the government of TAR.Since then,the Khampa man from downtown Chamdu of TAR became the seventh chairman of the government of TAR,and the leader of 2.7 million people living on the snow-covered plateau. On January 30th,2007,the author kept an appointment at the Tibet Hotel in Beijing to hold an exclusive interview with Chairman Jampa Phuntsog,an ethnic Tibetan and university graduate.The interview was initially planed to take place in Lhasa,but just before setting off by airplane,the author was informed that Chairman Jampa Phuntsog was on his way to Beijing for a conference.Speaking with Chairman Jamp Phuntsog he agreed to change the interview to Beijing."This may save you a journey",Chairman Jampa remarked courteously. In the interview,Chairman Jampa Phuntsog gave a comprehensive introduction to TAR's status quo regarding development in recent years and added a brief of himself.