＂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

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

Eight Tibetan Treasures

ＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＴｒｅａｓｕｒｅｓＸＥＩＲＡＢＧＹＡＣＯ,ＷＥＮＱＵＮＴＡＩＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＴｒｅａｓｕｒｅｓ,ａｌｓｏｋｎｏｗｎａｓｔｈｅＥｉｇｈｔＴｉｂｅｔａｎＦａｉｒｉｅｓａｎｄＥｉｇｈｔＡｕｓｐｉｃｉｏｕｓＩｎｓｉｇｎｉａｓ,...     

Tibetan Folk Epic

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

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…     

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 Development of Tibetan Culture

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Preface to 'China Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries'

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

Tibetan Issue:Lie vs Truth

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

Opening the Window for Tibetan Art

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

Tibet： A Tibetan Chinese View

Global opinion on and perception of Tibetan attitudes and affairs have been heavily shaped by one group of Tibetans, namely the Dalai Lama and his fellow exiles. They have done so on the claim that they speak for all sixplus million Tibetans, overseas as well as in China. On this claim they also seek autonomy of a so-called Greater Tibet from Beijing, which is the latest demand in their talks with Beijing. The adeptness with which the exiles use the English language and western political vocabulary, in particular, has greatly facilitated their presentation of those myths for the westem audience.     

Of Mumps and Men: Masculinity and the Severity of a Vaccine Preventable Disease in Western Medicine, 1760s–1960s

This article, based on an analysis of English language medical literature on mumps’ manifestation in men, women and children from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examines the role of gender in shaping conceptualisations of mumps’ severity and medical significance. Over time, gendered social roles undermined the medical notion of mumps as a severe disease of women while elevating mumps’ reputation as a severe and significant disease of men, eventually casting the disease as a threat to masculinity. When the modern mumps vaccine was commercialised in the 1960s, its development built on a long history of gendered conceptualisations of mumps and its use cast children as safeguards of a legacy of masculine citizenship defined by military activity and fatherhood.     

Study of Co2-Supercritical Fluid Extraction（SFE） of Constituents in ＂Seng-ldeng＂ （SD）, a Traditional Tibetan Medicine

This new, recently developed extracting techniqne, Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE), features many advantages in natural product extraction, such as a satisfactory rate of extraction, a high isolation effect, and, when operated entirely free of residual solvents, low cost.     

Inheritance and Vicissitude of the Tibetan Diet——A Case of A Tibetan Rural Community

The dietary structure and customs of the Tibetans1 include both simple and complex elements.The transition from a diet composed mainly of tsampa and butter tea to the integration of alien and industrialized foodstuffs into the Tibetan dietary culture reflects,in a way,the processes of adaptation,integration and vicissitude of the Tibetan rural community during modernization.This article attempts to discuss the relationship between the traditional culture and modernization in Tibetan rural communities during the process of cultural interaction and modernization by studying the dietary structure and customs of Tibetan farmers in Nyang-re Township located in the north outskirts of Lhasa,Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).     

Study of Co_2-Supercritical Fluid Extraction(SFE) of Constituents in “Seng-1deng” (SD),a Traditional Tibetan Medicine

This new,recently developed extracting techniqne,Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE),features manyadvantages in natural product extraction,such as a sa-tisfactory rate of extraction,a high isolation effect,and,when operated entirely free of residual solvents,lowcost.In the process of adopting CO_2-SFE,we studiedits main components,maesopsin,and the traditionalTibetan medicine“Seng-ldeng”(SD),which is thewooden elemant of the trunk of the Rhanmella gilgitica