＂Seminar On Tibetan History＂ Held in Beijing By Both Sides Of Taiwan Strait.

An academic “Seminar on Tibetan History”,hostedby China Tibetology Research Center,was held inBeijing from September 1 to September 3,2002.Pro-fessors and Experts.in Tibetan history from severalTaiwan universities,such as Taiwan Politics University,Culture University,Zhongzheng University,SouthChina University and Mingchuan University took partin the seminar,and more than 30 mainland scholars     

A Small Project In Tibet——Project for Strengthening Tibetan Traditional Medicine （PSTTM）

The Tibetan Red Cross has a branch in Tibet and in LhasaCity, whose members are openminded, non bureaucratic and sincerely dedicated to the improvement of poor people‘s standard of living and life conditions. So, at the end of the year 2000, they accepted a small project that they have been working with and supporting since with success. The cooperation of local authorities (Lhundrup and Medrogongkar)at every stage and level also contributed enormously to the achievements of the project, It must be underlined that although the sponsors are Europeans and there is one foreigner working with inPSTTM, the work and expertise are solely based on local Tibetan and Chinese knowledge. The reason is simple: there is enough local knowledge for everything needed for this project.     

Comments on: Rock Art Preservation: Improved and Ecology‐based Methods can give Weathered Sites Prolonged Life

Colin Renfrew: Archaeology and Language. The Puzzle of Indo‐European Origins. Jonathan Cape, London, 1987.

J. P. Mallory: In Search of the Indo‐Europeans. Language, Archaeology and Myth. Thames and Hudson, London, 1989.

T. L. Markey and John A. C. Greppin: When Worlds Collide. Indo‐Europeans and Pre‐Indo‐Europeans. Karoma, Ann Arbor, 1990.     

Tibetan Folk Epic

ＴｉｂｅｔａｎＦｏｌｋＥｐｉｃ￥／／ＴｈｅＢｉｏｇｒａｐｈｙｏｆＫｉｎｇＧｅｓａｒ,ａｆａｍｏｕｓＴｉｂｅｔａｎｆｏｌｋｅｐｉｃｂａｓｅｄｏｎｐｏｐｕｌａｒｍｙｔｈｏｌｏｇｙ,ｆｏｌｋｔａｌｅｓ,ｆｏｌｋｓｏｎｇｓａｎｄｓａｙｉｎｇｓ,ｉｓｃｏｎｓｉ...     

Eight Tibetan Treasures

ＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＴｒｅａｓｕｒｅｓＸＥＩＲＡＢＧＹＡＣＯ,ＷＥＮＱＵＮＴＡＩＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＴｒｅａｓｕｒｅｓ,ａｌｓｏｋｎｏｗｎａｓｔｈｅＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＦａｉｒｉｅｓａｎｄＥｉｇｈｔＡｕｓｐｉｃｉｏｕｓＩｎｓｉｇｎｉａｓ,...     

Tibetan Etiquette and Taboo

Language is the sedimentation of history. Its unique characteristics enrich a peoples' understanding of their past. Language is also a tool of communication and interaction between people. It     

A Good Book for Studying Tibetan Fine Arts—Comments on ‘Outline of Traditional Tibetan Fine Arts' in Tibetan

WhentheOutlineofTraditionalTibetanFineArts,masterpieceoffamedDainzi,waspublished,itwonfirstprizeattheSecondNationalTibetanBooksFairin1995inBejing.Withgreatinterest,Ibrowsedthroughthebookandwassoonattractedbyitsrichcontent.GenqugDainziwasbornintoafarmingfa…     

The Development of Tibetan Culture

ＴｈｅＤｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔｏｆＴｉｂｅｔａｎＣｕｌｔｕｒｅ￥／／ＺＨＡＮＧＺＨＩＷＥＩＨｉｓｔｏｒｙｐｒｏｖｅｓｔｈａｔａｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｅｄｃｕｌｔｕｒｅｉｓａｐｒｅｒｅｑｕｉｓｉｔｅｆｏｒｓｏｃｉｏｅｃｏｎｏｍｉｃｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔ．Ｃｕｌｔ...     

China''''s First Tibetan CAE Member

Of medium height.he isa strongly built manwith black,curly hair,with nothing unique todistinguish him from his fellowTibetans.But,Dorje is a Mem-ber of the Chinese Academyof Engineering(CAE),and noother Tibetan can match himin this regard.     

A Window on Tibetan Culture

ＡＷｉｎｄｏｗｏｎＴｉｂｅｔａｎＣｕｌｔｕｒｅＧＥＬＥＧＴｈｅｌａｓｔｆｅｗｃｅｎｔｕｒｉｅｓｓａｗｎｕｍｅｒｏｕｓｐｅｏｐｌｅｖｅｎｔＵｒｅｉｎｔｏＴｉｂｅｔ，ａｈｏｌｙｌａｎｄｔｕｃｋｅｄａｗａｙｏｎｔｈｅＲｏｏｆｏｆｔｈｅＷｏｒｌｄ．Ｈｏｗｅｖ...     

Tibetan Folk Customs Undergoing Changes

ManyintheworldviewTibetasalandwheretradihonalobjectsstillplayamajorroleindaiIylife.Ibothagreeanddisagreewiththis.PeoplewhosupportthisideabolstertheirviewbyarguingthatPOtteryhasalonghistoryinTibetandChinaatlarge.Indeed,potteryenjoysahistoryofmorethan5,000yearsinChina,andtheTibetanslearnedthisskillduringthe7thcentury.Throughthepassingyears,pot-teryobectshaveenjoyedgoodsalesnotonlyinTibetbutalsoinitsneighborNepal.HoweveL...PlasticWineWaresvs.F)ottet'i,,WineWaresTheTibetanscherishthetradit…     

Economic Consequences Of The German Occupation Of Norway, 1940–1945

Since the liberation from the German occupation of 1940–1945, the dominant national narrative has been of the far-reaching exploitation and destruction of the Norwegian economy by the occupant forces. The scholarly basis for this narrative was a book written by Odd Aukrust and Petter Jacob Bjerke in 1945. The narrative formed an important basis for the Norwegian variant of economic reconstruction following liberation and has also dominated historiography. However, Aukrust and Bjerve’s presentation of the bleak situation in 1945 was exaggerated and is, historically speaking, untenable. Another conclusion is that the German occupation initiated a 20-year period in which the Norwegian economy was less open and exposed to internal and external competition than in any other period subsequent to Norway entering the liberal age of free trade and free international capital transactions in the middle of the 19th century.     

THE LIFE Of HERDER DARGYE

At noon,Dargye's wife cooked lunch for us.While chanting, the generous herder brought us dishes with green pepper fried with yak meat,well-cooked potato slices,vegetable soup and rice. We were told that all vegetables were actually picked from his glass house.Dargye said that just several years before,his family could only purchase vegetables from the markets of the County's downtown,200 km far away.     

Opening the Window for Tibetan Art

ＯｐｅｎｉｎｇｔｈｅＷｉｎｄｏｗｆｏｒＴｉｂｅｔａｎＡｒｔ￥／／Ｔｈｉｓｙｅａｒｍａｒｋｓｔｈｅ３０ｔｈａｎｎｉｖｅｒｓａｒｙｏｆｔｈｅｆｏｕｎｄｉｎｇｏｆｔｈｅＴｉｂｅｔＡｕｔｏｎｏｍｏｕｓＲｅｇｉｏｎ．Ｃｈｉｎａ＇ｓＴｉｂｅｔｉｓｃｅｌｅｂｒａｔ...     

Preface to 'China Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries'

Ｐｒｅｆａｃｅｔｏ＇ＣｈｉｎａＴｉｂｅｔａｎＢｕｄｄｈｉｓｔＭｏｎａｓｔｅｒｉｅｓ＇￥／／ＹＡＮＬＩＮＧＤＯＪＥＴｈｅＣｈｉｎａＴｉｂｅｔａｎＢｕｄｄｈｉｓｔＭｉｎａｓｔｅｒｉｅｓ（ｈｅｒｅａｆｔｅｒｒｅｆｅｒｒｅｄｔｏａｓＭｏｎａｓｔｅｒｉｅｓ）,...     

Tibetan Issue:Lie vs Truth

ＴｉｂｅｔａｎＩｓｓｕｅ：ＬｉｅｖｓＴｒｕｔｈＪ－ＹＡＯＳＨＥＮＩａｍａＣｈｉｎｅｓｅＡｍｅｒｉｃａｎ．ＢｏｒｎｉｎＣｈｉｎａ,ｂｕｔｈａｖｉｎｇｓｐｅｎｔ４０ｙｅａｒｓｓｔｕｄｙｉｎｇａｎｄｌｉｖｉｎｇｉｎｔｈｅＵｎｉｔｅｄＳｔａｔｅｓ,Ｉｈａｖｅ...     

Digests of Papers on Tibetan Studies

TibetologistsarestudyingTibetwithgreatinterest.Manypapershavebeenproducedandthefollowingarehighlightsofsomeofthem.FactorsBehindGelug'sFallInTibetanSludies(issueNO.l,2000),XuDecunwrotethatinrecenttimesTibetansocietywasfilledwithshaIPeningcontradictionsastheTibetanfeudalserfownersystemdeclined.ReformofTibetanBuddhismturnedouttobeamust,andmanymonksleftBuddhahallsandshowedinterestintheoutsideworld.Ontheotherhand,theyfailedtodomoreforthedevelopmentofBuddhism,resultinginthedeclineoftheGelug…