Tonglha Zeweng Master of the Garma Garze Painting School (I)

Garma Garze painting school is one of the threefamous painting schools in the Tibetan-inhibitedareas (along with Moinze and Qenze paintingschools),and was formed in the 15th century.Major master painters of the school include Tongl-ha Zeweng,who is one of the most outstandingmodem painters in the region. Tonglha Zeweng(his religious name being Garma LhozhubWose)was born in Dege County in 1901.He started to learn to     

Tonglha Zeweng： Master of the Garma Garze Painting School （Ⅱ）

The Garma Garze painting schoolis one of the three famous paint-ing schools in Tibetan-inhibitedareas(along with those ofMoinze and Qenze),and was formed inthe 15th century.In the 16th century,it began to exertgreater influence on the Tibetan-inhabitedareas,and.a number of painters flourished,including Dabo Goba,Garrna Sengzbe and     

The Modern Face Of TIBETAN MEDICINE

In traditional Tibetan society, Tibetan medicine and pharmacy mainly existed in monasteries. Generally, a comparatively sizable monastery would often be equipped with a medical school. The Tibetan Medical College is one of the biggest schools for the study of Tibetan medicine and pharmacy in the monastery. Its curriculum consists of Tibetan medicine, pharmacy,     

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…     

The Modern Face Of TIBETAN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY

<正>In traditional Tibetan society,Tibetan medicine and pharmacy mainly existed in monasteries. Generally,a comparatively sizable monastery would often be equipped with a medical school. The Tibetan Medical College is one of the biggest schools for the study of Tibetan medicine and pharmacy in the monastery.Its curriculum consists of Tibetan medicine,pharmacy, disease diagnosis and treatment.Obviously,Tibetan medicine and pharmacy still holds an important position in Tibetan Buddhism.     

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION

<正>People often say the best buildings in the Tibet Autonomous Region are school buildings.This is,in fact,true.The most beautiful view in schools is the smiling faces of children,and the most beautiful people are those school teachers who persist on living in a rural community to devote themselves to rural education.     

随意性笔墨建构的形式意蕴

The Casual Brushes, which began in the Yangtze River area, has long been existed. The aspiration, feeling and deliberation from hearts of the painters enrich the optic forms of the Chinese painting from the respect of the casualty, which displays profound trends of form structure of the Chinese painting.     

Tibetan Opera Troupes and Schools of the Xigaze Area

Tongdong Gyibo, born in Ngaring County of the Xigaze Area, did much to develop Tibetan opera art, and the 5thDalai Lama then initiated the Tibetan opera festival to promote exchanges of ideas and the opera's further development.The blue mask performance school was the most influential among the Tibetan opera performance troupes. Of the four performance schools, three were founded in the Xigaze area: Joinpa school in Ngaring, Chianggarpa school in Rinbu and Shangpa school in Nam-     

EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN GARZE

For half a century, the Garze Tibetan Ethnic Group Autonomous Prefecture has made impressive progress in local education, and now has 231 primary, 72 middle and 7 polytechnic schools. Nine-year compulsory education is prevalent in Kangding and Luding, and six-year compulsory education is practiced in 77 other towns and townships. Attendance by school age children has risen from 0.25 percent in 1950, the year before the peaceful liberation of Tibet, to 84.32 percent at present; and the illit…     

Painting of Rahula of The Qing Period ——Collections of Tibet Museum

Among the collections of the Tibet Museum is a cloth tangka painting produced in the 51st year of the reign of Qing Dynasty Emperor Qian-long. Measuring 82.5 cm long and 53.5 cm wide, it depicts Rahula. As one of the 10 major disciples of Sakyamuni and one of the 16 Arhats, Rahula was a son of Sakyamuni before he entered Buddhism. When Sakyamuni became a Buddha, Rahula was asked to take in charge of Buddhist affairs at Qinglanyuan.     

MY UNIVERSITY

Everyone has a sacred place deep in his or her heart. I have two such places:one is my hometown Lhasa who gave me my life;the other is my alma mater Peking University who gave me not only knowledge,but the ability to think for myself instead of following the herd and swimming with the tide. I was born in Lhasa,and finished my primary and secondary education there.Most of the teachers in my primary school,Lhasa Experimental Primary school,were     

千禧龙年话龙画

Dragon,in Chinese traditional beliefs,is the highest fairy beast,which is the symbol of luck and happiness.It has been the everlasting subjec tin painting for a long time.Especially in the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty,the dragon painting approached to its climax.Obviously, the profound meaning in the dragon painting is rather complicated.Examined from all angles of Chinese Culture,it reflects the unique Chinese thought and traditional belief.     

浅析代笔书画

Ghostuwriting is a most complicate and difficult problem in the respect of Chinese calligraphy and painting authcntication because the ghostwriting is the requirement of the painter himself and usually approved by him. The painter will cooperate with the ghostwriter and try to be invulnerable. The author introduces such kind of phenomenou in the Chinese calligraphy and painting history in quite a detail. which is believed to he a great help to the authentieators or collectora.     

Tangka Painting of Gesar

Rope and other patterns on pottery unearthed from the Karub cultural sites, dating back some 5,000 years, are considered to be the earliest examples of painting art known so far. Rock paintings believed to have come later constitute the embryo of Tibetan painting art.Tangka painting is closely related to frescoes in terms of painting art. Tangka is created to reproduce what is painted in the fresco. Cultures prevalent in China's hinterland, India and Nepal exerted deep influence on Tibetan painting art.Both Princess Wencheng and Princess Jincheng brought the Han Chinese culture into Tibet, which proved to be a boon for the development of Tibetan painting art. With construction of the Potala Palace, Jokhang, Qamzhub and other monasteries, Tibetan painting art developed apace. Frescoes in Jokhang Monastery, Qamzhub Monastery and Potala Palace, still visible today, feature a simple nature, with rich colors and concise lines, while figures were painted in an     

复见新人忆旧友

Mr. Fu Youxin is a famous artist of Jiangsu Province. His works is poetic and full of freshness. The landscape in his painting is meaningful and vigorous, while the flower and bird in his painting are full of life and elegance. Nowadays, by learning widely from others, Mr. Fu has accumulated a wealth of life experience and his painting skill is approaching perfection day by day.     

Beijing Tibet Middle School

The year marks the 20th anniversary of the Central Government decision to run Tibet middle schools in the hinterland. At present, there are such schools or Tibetan classes in 26 provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government. They work to train technical personnel and teachers for Tibet. Launched in 1987, the Beijing Tibet Middle School has since trained more than 2,800 middle and high school students for Tibet. Many of them returned to Tibet for construction.     

LOZANG BALDEN,THE FOUNDER OF LHASA GANXUAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

正Lozang Balden,a legendary figure and also the founder and principal of the civilian-run Lhasa Ganxuan School,is widely well-known in the community of Lhasa City.The school is comprised of not only teenage students in preschool,elementary school,middle school,and high school,but     

五百年来第一人——记张大千

Zhang Daqian is one of the most reputed and talented painters in modem times. His paintings have various styles, minute and soft, or great and majestic, or delicate and lovely, or smartly and stylish. The topic spreads all aspects from figures, landscape,flowers and birds to beasts. So he's called an all-mighty artist.     

Tsering Drolma:Every Painting Is My Child

正On the wall of her room,which is no bigger than twenty square meters,she has hung all her paintings that she has worked out while in a different spirit and state,most of them in a series of a few pictures.The paintings were finished in the past one or two years during her free time after lectures.Pointing at her paintings,she smiled and said,"Each painting is my soul work,to which I have devoted