Education Thrives IN NYINGCHI

By the end of October1999, there were 276schools in the NyingchiPrefecture, with 22,868students of the Tibetan, Han, Moinbaand Lhoba ethnic groups.They include one high school,nine middle schools and one polytechnic secondary school, with atotal of 2,377 students; 66 primaryschools and 198 study classes, with20,491 pupils.More than 95 percent of theschoolage children are attendingschools.INCREASED INVESTMENT.Such achievement was made as aresult partly of increased governmentallocatio…     

Four Nature Reserves IN NYINGCHI

With an annual average temperature of 8.7degrees Centigrade, Nyingchi in southeastChina enjoys an annual precipitation of665mm, along with an average of 2,022.2hours a year and an annual frost-free period of about 180days.In Nyingchi, there are 3.74 million hectares of forestland, including 2.64 million hectares of forestry offering882 million cubic meters of timber reserves. Trees cover46 percent of the land in the prefecture, and make up 65percent of the forests in Tibet as a whole.For the…     

BUCHUNG'S WAY TO WEALTH

正Lhodrak County is situated in the southern part of Tibet Autonomous Region.Using the Himalayas as a point of demarcation,the south flank connects with the Kingdom of Bhutan along a 154-kilometer border.With the geographic and climatic discrepancy between the northern and southern flanks of the Himalayas,the vegetation at these two parts shows an obvious and apparent difference.Therefore,     

Ancient Pottery FOUND IN NYINGCHI

It was drizzling when LiLindui and Ireached Bayi Town,capital of Nyingchi Prefecture.on May 25, 2000, for a survey ofancient tombs. Late May was therainy season.In the past year since our lastvisit, the town had added many newbuildings and roads.It was four in the afternoonwhen we got to the town, but we stillwent direct to the Cultural Bureau.People there briefed us on theancient tombs and showedus three pieces of pottery. Finding thesewere from the earlyand middle Tubo period, we immed…     

TENGCHEN COUNTY GOES FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH

<正>Although one month is just a fraction of a year,people did spend an entire month helping a village develop its economy and giving the town of Sheshung in Tengchen County a complete overhaul.At this"hometown of big rocks",the locals are on their way to realize their dream of getting rid of poverty through the establishment of major industrial projects Norbu was the team leader dispatched from the Information and Publicity Department of Chamdo with the aim of providing services to Langthong Village     

WEALTH AND STATUS IN IRON AGE KNOSSOS

Summary.   Knossos Tekke tomb 2 is one of the richest tombs in the Iron Age Aegean, renowned for its deposits of gold. The tomb is widely attributed to a family of goldsmiths, who migrated to Knossos from the Near East. This article, however, questions this attribution. An alternative interpretation is pursued through surveys of the distribution of some luxury materials, amply represented in the Tekke tomb, in all known Knossian tombs. By setting the Tekke find against the large corpus of Knossian burial material, I identify the Tekke occupants as members of a local élite. This group is shown to have had privileged access to the products of a goldsmith's workshop, as well as to the sources of some lavish, mostly imported, raw materials, and to have regulated their distribution within Knossian society during the eighth century. The means through which the Tekke élite claimed and defended their wealth and status are assessed and their possible Late Bronze Age pedigree is conjectured.     

UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIONS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST SUTRAS

The illustrations for Tibetan sutras are coloured in two ways:in black and white or colours-the monotone illustrations accompanying Tibetan characters and usually engraved on woodblocks.The illustrations are often showed on the cover pages or two sides of the head pages of sutras; they are frequently displayed at two frames and in the middle of end pages.In this paper,I am going to introduce the     

UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIONS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST SUTRAS

The illustrations for Tibetan sutras are coloured in two ways:in black and white or colours-the monotone illustrations accompanying Tibetan characters and usually engraved on woodblocks.The illustrations are often showed on the cover pages or two sides of the head pages of sutras; they are frequently displayed at two frames and in the middle of end pages.In this paper,I am going to introduce the     

VOLUNTEERS WARM TIBETAN ELDERLY IN YUSHU

My first experience of Yushu was on July 25th, 2001, the very day of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Yushu Prefecture. We, with about 100 thousand Tibetan people from different parts of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered on the Prairie of Tashigang in Gyegu Town, capital of Yushu,     

SHAKING OFF POVERTY AND GIVING REBIRTH TO TIBETAN BOOTS

正Tibetan culture not only includes subtle and profound spiritual treasures,but also rich and complicated village regulations and folk conventions including unique national traditional craftsmanship.In function and artisanship,Tibetan boots,the carrier of traditional Tibetan craftsmanship,are a good presentation of how civilizations and people have learned and borrowed from each other     

TIBETAN HANDICRAFTS IN THE STREETS OF LHASA

正Since 2002, I have developed a strong affinity towards Tibet.By now, I have made 20 trips to Tibet, the shortest being 12 days,the longest 16 months. On my fifth trip, I decided to leave behind my comfortable life as a documentary filmmaker in Beijing and live semipermanently for a while in Lhasa, so     

A FAMOUS TIBETAN DOCTOR IN EAST TIBET

<正>As deputy president,he has been working in the clinical department for 12 years.His daily clinical consultations average up to 50 patients.In one year,he attends over ten thousand patients. He is Dr.Jampa Gelek,a famous senior Tibetan doctor working as deputy president in the Tibetan Hospital of Chamdo Prefecture.For many years,his outstanding medical knowledge, skills and high medical ethics are well known in the east of Tibet.     

TIBET AND TIBETAN CULTURE IN MY EYES

<正>Tibet Autonomous Region is a place of spectacular scenic beauty.I have had the privilege of visiting it four times.In addition,I have visited quite a few Tibetan areas outside Tibet,including in Qinghai,Sichuan,Gansu,and Yunnan.My visits to the Tibetan areas of China span the years 1985 to 2011.     

WOMEN'S WORK: A CASE STUDY OF PROLETARIANIZATION OF PERI-URBAN VILLAGERS IN VANUATU

This study focuses on peri-urban women in Vanuatu from 1972 to 1983 in order to measure the impact of a greater participation of women in the labour market, an increase in the number of consensual unions in the village, and the changing pattern of female migration. Not unexpectedly, these result in a loosening of ties between some villagers and village land. What matters even more is that such a loss of land rights endangers the ideological reproduction of this hybrid sociological form in Melanesia. In effect, peri-urban villagers walk an ideological tightrope. What remains of their subsistence economy generates a corporate ideology under the form of discourses on the virtue of communality, and this is what distinguishes and preserves the village social field from that of the town. A loss of land rights may well lead to a questioning of communality and a realization of the hegemonic nature of the ideology of social undifferentiation.     

藏地拍鸟 那些不能不说的感受

<正>第一次去西藏,第一次到高原拍鸟,第一次感受高原反应,然而,很值,因为西藏有大美!西藏海拔较高,沿途上的风光有着另一番的神韵!到西藏去,感受这里的山,感受这里的水,感受这里的人文,感受这里的鸟类。只要一踏上这片神奇的土地,一定会让你忘乎所以。     

CHINESE AND TIBETAN HISTORICAL RECORDS IN LUMBINI

<正>In the early 1990s,as the senior visiting scholar commissioned by the Education Working Committee(now the Ministry of Education)of the People's Republic of China,I was invited by the Asian Research Center of Tribhuvan University in Nepal to work in Nepal for one year. During my stay I had a rare opportunity,while participating in a Buddhist conference,to     

传统藏陶传承千年再焕新生

Traditional Tibetan pottery has a long history and comes in varying categories and shapes,making it one of ethnic Tibetans’ most refined forms of cultural art.Today,however,very few craftsmen have been able to fully pass on the pottery-making process,and pottery makers have disappeared from the map entirely in some places.     

NATIONAL TIBETAN TERMINOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION CONFERENCE HELD IN BEIJING

The conference, which was the second plenary meeting of the third session, was held from Apr. 28 to 29 in China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing.