My Story： from Shepherd Boy to County Magistrate

I was born in 1961,the second year after the Tibetan Democratic Reform.Now,I am more than fifty years old.I am a lucky dog to be living in the times when millions of Tibetan serfs have been liberated.The older generations have spent the first half of their lives in the darkness of old Tibet. My father told me that there were six people in our family then,yet the livestock belonging to our family amounted to no more than 50 sheep...no-where near enough to make a living.So everyone had to work     

小妖：翻越雪山来看你

回到背崩的第一个晚上,我住在“莲花缘”客栈的小木屋里,和小妖睡在同一张床上。屋外是一片田地,蛙的叫声大得惊人,如果仔细听,会觉得那不像蛙叫,而是山中的一种仪式。这是青蛙求偶的欢歌,在这个炎热多雨的季节,生命的渴望总是如此浓烈。     

News in Brief

Lhasa Old District to Get Big- budget Facelift The government of Lhasa is to spend 1.234 billion Yuan to protect its old urban area.The facelift project was launched on Dec.20 and is expected to be completed by July 2013,which includes renovation of water supply and drainage,power lines,pipelines,street lamps and construction of heating facilities.     

Rakadra, a Small Temple in the Mountains

<正>Looking far to the north above the city of Lhasa,you will see a yellow and white building sitting a little above the Sera Monastery on the eastern slope of M...     

The Three Tsongkhapa Masters

<正>The three Tsongkhapa masters refer to the Guru Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa,and his two top students: Gyalstsab Darma Rinchen and Khedrup Geleg Palzang.These thr...     

The Lunar January Monlam in the Lhamo Monastery

The Lhamo Monastery Town,a small town known as the "center of the south" in ancient times, lies at the junction of Gansu,Qinghai and Sichuan.The town is divided into two parts by a stream known as White Dragon River.In the northwest is the Town of the Lhamo Monastery,belonging to Luchu County,Gannan Prefecture, Gansu Province.In the southeast is the Nam Monastery Town,belonging to the Ruoergai County,Aba Prefecture of Sichuan Province.     

Rebuilding the Yerpa Primary School

There used to be a primary school between Yulo and Sengo in Yerpa Village:three classrooms in a row,plus dormitories and a canteen. In the 1990s there were three teachers at the school and about 60- 70 students distributed over the three classes.When those village-funded teachers were dismissed,the township’s central primary school sent two teachers to work for six months.Later,Yerpa Primary School merged with the town school and ever since then the old school building has fallen into disrepair.     

THE MARRIAGE VIEWS OF RIGZIN, AN ELDER FROM NAMSELING

<正>Polyandry is an ancient custom common in the countryside of Tibet.No scholar,who studies Tibetan social culture,could avoid the topic.However,like other plac...     

Six Months in Changtang

There is a place where the grassland is so vast it spreads to the horizon.Under the blue sky and white clouds, ＂white buttocks＂（goas, because of the white, heart-shaped patch on its rump）stroll leisurely in the sun,     

品松茸 游林艺

七月,林芝松茸季刚刚到来,林芝的美食之旅才刚刚开启。这里蓝天白云山水静好,闷热的都市与田园的邂逅只有一张车票的距离,而迎接您的林芝,正是离蓝天最近的地方。     

New Times, New Films --Native Tibetan Films since Reform and Opening-up

<正>Le Salon Indien du Grand Cafe was a room in the basement of the Grand Cafe,near the Place de l’Opera in the center of Paris.It is notable for being the place...     

Water Shortage in Yerpa

<正>Yerpa has four villages,80 families,24.6 ha.of farmland,more than a thousand head of livestock and over 66.7 ha.of orchards.It all depends on a stream flowin...     

难忘的进藏回忆

1964年,我入伍进藏当兵。作为新兵在青海适应高原气候训练结束后,行进西藏就开始了。进藏坐的是解放大卡车,整整坐了18天。一个车队,既有运兵车,又有救护保障车,几十辆车,像一条巨龙,浩浩荡荡地行进。     

空谷幽兰“墨脱”

墨脱，藏语里叫“梅朵”，即花朵的意思，所以墨脱是一个根据方言发音而来的地名。相传9世纪莲花生大师曾到达此地，发现这里的地形犹如一朵盛开的莲花，十分殊胜，于是就在此修行，并取名“白玛岗”。     

The Last Hail Preventer Old Wangchug

My name is Wangchug.I an 82 years old.I am from the Village of Namserling,in Chanang County.My former job was a "Lala",i.e the hail arrester (also a weather sorcery of hail prevention Lama).     

;HE BUSY SUMMER OF A WATER CUSTODIAN

<正>Editor’s note: Shortly after the founding of the People’s Republic of China,to gain an understanding of the general conditions of the nation’s ethnic minorit...     

Trongyul, a Beautiful Land in North Tibet

The Lhamo Monastery Town,a small town known as the "center of the south" in ancient times,lies at the junction of Gansu,Qinghai and Sichuan.The town is divided into two parts by a stream known as White Dragon River.     

New Books

Tibet during the Qing Dynasty and Bnlukpa The author,Dr.Thalho from the Ethnology and Anthropology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,wrote this book based on his wide-ranging and extensive study of historic literature in Chinese,Tibetan,Manchu and English.He sought to systematically analyze the complicated and uneasy relationship between Tibet during the Qing Dynasty and Bulukpa(today’s Bhutan).He offers a profound analysis of how the tributary system     

一路颠簸情未改——初进墨脱有感

援藏三年倏忽就过去了两年,整日置身斗室、上下爬格的我,除了窗外山、头顶天和眼前云,对西藏大好河山的感受更多停留在《第三极》那部纪录片上。