NYINPA BOYS RIDING ON THE CLIFF

<正>To the southeast of Nyinpa,a village sitting in a narrow valley,there is a halfhanging rock on the mountainside.That is the"signal rock"on which the whole village depends.Only on top of that rock can one get any cellphone signal.Bathed in the evening glow,I dialed the number of a Thangka painter,Trinley,on that very rock,and soon,his sonorous voice came through.A student of Lama Tsesha,Master of the Manthang Painting School     

Lozang Chojor,A Self-made Man of Wenda Village

<正>The Ridung Township is located in the northern part of Karub District of Chamdo city.Its township government is 34 kilometers from the government of Karub District.It sits at an altitude of 3,295 meters.Among its twelve administrative villages,six are semifarming and semi-pastoral villages,four farming villages,and two pastoral villages.Wenda is one of the farming villages.Lozang Chojor is the vice head of the village committee,and a wellknown self-made man.He works as     

THE HAPPY LIFE OF PADMA DROLKAR

正Padma Drolkar is from a small village located in the Dranang County of Lhoka within the Tibet Autonomous Region. Although the village is about 20 kilometers away from the downtown area of the county, the nearby mountain range makes it nearly impossible for the village to     

CULTURAL TOURISMHELPS THE JIEZHU VILLAGE OUT OF POVERTY

正Yajiang County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is named Yaquke in Tibetan, meaning"mouth of the river". It is located upstream the Yalong River and has 35 peaks over 5,000 meters above sea level. Jiezhu Village is named"the village of Kangba men", located in Yajiang County's town of Xi'eluo, and it is one of the birthplaces of the Kangba culture, being 60 kilometers from Yajiang County at an     

藏香生产从家庭走向市场

Incense Production,a Living Fossil of the Culture of Ancient Tibetan Crafts With the heavy ears of highland barley waving in the field and the cool,pure air filled with the fragrance of incense,this village renowned for its incense production emerged in the middle of a valley.The village is called Thonda,the river the Thonchu,and it is located in Thonpa Township,Nyemo County,within Tibet Autonomous Region.Thonda Village is known as the hometown of Thonmi Sambhota.     

藏香生产从家庭走向市场（英文）

正Incense Production,a Living Fossil of the Culture of Ancient Tibetan Crafts With the heavy ears of highland barley waving in the field and the cool,pure air filled with the fragrance of incense,this village renowned for its incense production emerged in the middle of a valley.The village is called Thonda,the river the Thonchu,and it is located in Thonpa Township,Nyemo County,within Tibet Autonomous Region.Thonda Village is known as the hometown of Thonmi Sambhota,an     

The Funeral Custom in the Dobis Tibetan Community

Dobis（RdoSbis） is the birthplace of Shesrab Gyamtsho, a great TibetanBuddhist Master in modern China. It is located 26.5 kilometers southeast of Xunhua County, Qinghai Province There are 24 natural villages in total： twenty Tibetan villages, three villages of the Salar ethnic groupand one Han Chinese village in the township. Dobis has developed its unique regional customs given its geographic, social and cultural environments. According to an old saying from local people, there are 1000 householders in Dobis Valley.     

A SMALL VILLAGE BECOMES “INTELLECTUAL”

<正>Today,the wave of the Internet has swept to not only big cities but also small villages.TashiTuomen Community in Nedong District of Lhoka City is actually a very small remote community located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The small village in     

CHANGES IN LIVES OF PEASANTS OF Banjor Lunbo Village

Banjor Lunbo Village,located about four kmsouthwest of the seat ofGyangze County, was formerly the location ofParla Manor. It is the only one of its kindstill kept intact in Tibet. In 1995 and1997, this writer carried out an investigation in the village. The first investigation took the form of door-to-doorpolling, with the results brought back toBeijing for computerized processing.The table shows the enormous difference between the consumption levelsof residents in the village during diff…     

LOSANG

Losang is now 78 years old,one of the villagers who enjoy longevity.He is the former village head of Dangram Village,also a senior Party member.By right of his senior experience,he is really somebody of the village. It was Losang who sent us to Dangram in earlier times and provided horses and mules     

ANECDOTES ABOUT YUMTAN SANGPO WHILE WORKING IN THE VILLAGE

<正>Namei Village is situated at the northern part of the famous attraction located in Tibet known as Lake Namtso,and it is4,800 meters above sea-level.Yumtan Sangpo,a 23-year-old young man came here to work in the village for over haIf a year.On the day of the interview,Yumtan put on his special blue down jacket and commented that this was a formal activity.He usually kept on his Tibetan robe every day and     

THE STORY OF COUNTRYDOCTOR DEBU

正On the afternoon of July 11,2015,with the company of a Tibetan girl named Phuntsog,I paid a visit to Doctor Debu,who works in a rural health center of Karma County within Karuo District,Chamdo City,Tibet Autonomous Region.The health center is located in the village of Litu,not too far from the county government.This simple hospital is surrounded by a few compounds with an area of a few hundred square meters,among which there are two recently built     

Passion and Strength Protects the Border- A story of the civilian patrol contingent of the border police station of Trango Town in Saga County

Trango Town of Saga County in Shigaste is located at an elevation of 5370 meters with a population of 1,305 people. It shares a 105-kilometer border with Nepal, consisting of five border passes. It is one of the key border protective areas of the local police force in cooperation with a local civilian patrol contingent. From the downtown of the county to Trango Town, it takes about two hours.     

Nyingchi Airport：Maiden Flight Successful

The construction of the Nyingchi Airport started in October 2003. It received collective investmentof 780 million Yuan from the State Development Reform Commission and General Administration of Civil Aviation of China as one of the major projects in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is designed to handle 120,000 passengers a year as a feeder tourist airport. Nyingchi is located in southeast Tibet, neighboring India and Myanmar, and lies at an average altitude of 3,100 meters. The mount…     

Worship Mountain God

Labrang is located on the east-ern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is a multi-ethnic residence in whichpeople of the Tibetan ethnicgroup form the majority. Over thousandsof years, people there have worshippedthe temple mountain god atop the moun-tain on a regular basis. It is a religious rit-ual on the largest scale and longest influ-ence among various such natural worshiprites in Labrang. The major contents ofthe custom are arrow planting, burn aro-matic plants and flying "Lungda".Br…     

QULHC

What is ＂Qulho＂？
＂Qu＂ is water and ＂Lho＂ is electricity. Therefore, a literal translation of＂Qulho＂ is ＂water electricity＂. It is, in fact, a hydroelectric plant including a small generator that produces power as water flows through it. Half of the houses in the village have a Qulho connection. When you come to Yerpa, please do not be shocked by the cobweb of wires everywhere. These wires were strung-up by villagers to run their Qulho power supply.     

Vanquishing Evil IN GNYAN THOG VILLAGE

Gnyan thog? Village, Gnyan thog Township, Tongren County, Rma lho Tibetan AutonomousPrefecture, is located in the east-central part ofQinghai? Province in China Northwest. Locatedwest of the Rong bo River near Tongren Town,the village is home to 250 families and a total population of1,500.Gnyan thog residents are officially classified as Monguor(TU), a Mongolic race deeply influenced by Tibetan Buddhism.Monguor number more than 220,000 and dwell in Qinghai andGansu provinces. Their l…     

Interview with Village Leaders （Ⅳ）： Political, Legal and Public Services in Rural Tibet

Sainted Naxi ethnic group village head Gongqoi Zhaxi Located at southeast comer of Tibet, Yanjin （tsha-kha）is close to Yunnan Province. It is a wellknown place in Tibet for several reasons. First, this place produces well salt differing from the lake salt in northern Tibet. The salt produced here is formed by isolating salty water fetched from wells beside the Lancangjiang River in salt ponds. Second, in Yanjin, there is a unique Catholic church, and there are many Tibetan people who became Catholics from the late 19th century onwards. Third, this is the only place in Tibet inhabited by the Naxi ethnic group. On July 7 2005, this writer interviewed the sainted senior village head of Lower Yanjin Village, Yanjin Township.     

Archaeological Work IN THE RUINS OF CHINGWA TAKTSE PALACES

<正>The ruins of Chingwa Taktse are located in the Chogye Valley in Lhoka of Tibet.It faces the famous Valley of the Kings across a distance.According to Tibetan historical records,Chingwa Taktse was the earliest Tubo palace complex.Six notable palaces were built successively on the rolling hills here.Local folklore has it that it is a"princess's tomb":a rammed earth     

MIRACLES SHOWN BY MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN SOPA FISHING VILLAGE

Sopa Village in Chushur County of Lhasa Municipality is the only village in Tibet with a fishing business.The unique culture of this village includes ancient traditional customs.One in particular is a strange marriage custom.