Illustration of Two Paintings： Atra Leading an Elephant and a Mongolian Riding a Tiger

The images Atra Leading an Elephant and A Mongolian Riding a Tiger are paintingsloved by Tibetans. In old Tibet, the two images were seen most on both sides of the house gate of senior monks, or on both walls of the corridors to the shrines in some monasteries. They were less often found in secular buildings and almost never in the yards of common people. Therefore, we can infer that except for the injunction to avoid evil and make money, the images also stand for power and eminence.     

TIBETANS ON CHANGES IN TIBET (III):Life Story of Noble Official Tinyung Cering Dorje

My name is Tinyung Cer-ing Dorje and I am 76this year. My home is inTinyung Courtyard out-side the wall of Xoi Vil-lage and the name of the house followsour family name.My grandfather's name was NamgyiDorje and he was a Tibetan governmentofficial. One of his daughters was mymother. My father. Cering Tagyi, held thepost of commander of the No.7 Regimentof Tibetan Army. The house was built upin my grandfather's time and its construc-tion area is some 460 squaremeters.At the age of 16,Ien…     

WILDLIFE PROTECTION FIELD WORK IN CHANGTANG

<正>"It breaks my heart looking at the door of my house!"In the guest house of Gumu Township government,a local herdsman was trying to describe for us how his home was wrecked by a brown bear.Inside the room,the smell of mutton and butter lingered in the air.Outside,there was the perfectly typical blue sky of Tibet.It was already June,but the weather was still chilly and windy on the Changtang grassland.The down jacket I put away only a month ago     

HADA PRESENTED TO THE PORTRAIT OF MAO ZEDONG

When I was a child, Mother changed old hada scarfpresented to the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong with new one before the advent of the Tibetan New Year. The portrait stood above the Tibetan cabinet in the central part of our house. My sisters and brothers, and I were brought togeth-er, and we were not sup-posed to speak while Moth-er did this with great respect."Mom, why should we do this every year?" I onceasked Mother."Son, he is none other than our savior," Mother told me.When I gre…     

THE DEVELOPMENT PATH OF NEW TIBET ENSURES THAT THE PEOPLE ARE MASTERS OF THEIR OWN FATE

<正>Editor's Note:The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China on April 15 published a white paper titled"Tibet's Path of Development is Driven by an Irresistible Historical Tide".The full text contains foreword,five chapters and conclusion.We select some part and share with our readers.The transformation of the old serf-owning Tibet into a new Tibet where the people are masters of their own fate was an essential precondition of Tibet's     

＂Long Distance Medical Treatment＂ in Old Tibet

In 1966,Ngawang Dorje served successively as a military lieutenant,party secretary of the district,subprefect and vice director of the People＇s Congress of the county.He is adept in agricultural production.Having formally retired,he was again reemployed by the county government to work in the agricultural development office of the county until finally retiring today.At present,he is living in his house located at Gyantse County in a comfortable and relaxed old age.     

'Chairman Mao Has Sent His Men Here'——Eyewitness to the Founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region

I have known old Toinzhub foryears. After only one meeting, heseemed to sense what was on mymind and could always talk aboutmy favorite subject. A day passesby slowly along with his sips of liquorand his vivid and detailed narration.That noon, I met the old man in thecourtyard and invited him to have a drinkand chat in my home. As the liquor tookhold, he began to talk freely of the eventsof the past forty years.In 1965, when the Tibet AutonomousRegion was founded, he was 21 and wasstudying …     

LUHUO COUNTY:OASIS IN THE PLATEAU

n the spring of 1936, the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army reached Luhuo and rested there for half a year during the famous Long March. Returning today, one finds the neat streets of the county seat lined with houses unique to the locality. Originally, Luhuo was known as "Hor Zamgu", meaning "Mongolians on the rock", because the Luhuo headman of the time, said to be the offspring of Mongolians, had his official house built on a large rock. It was renamed Luhuo in …     

宗须村乡村教师索朗多吉

Overlooking the township of Chudogyang in Chusum County of Lhoka City,the snow on top of Mt.Rensum Gonpo was hanging on.It was April 14.A new week was about to start.Sonam Dorje,a primary school teacher in Dzongxu Village of Chudogyang,was riding his motorcycle on a country road.Thinking of the many things to attend to at the school,he hit the throttle.Every weekend,Sonam Dorje has to travel between his home in Jiangtang Village and the small learning center in Dzongxu Village at least once.     

Langma Gyidu and Langma Artists

On May 8th 2004, in a serene house beside the Lhasa River, we met Xoikang Soinam Tagyi, a famous Tibetan Langma musician.He is 83 years old and was     

A BEGGAR BECOMES A STATE PUBLIC SERVANT

<正>Today an old man,who was previously begging on the street,becomes a free person without any worries about food and accommodation.The former slave has become a public servant of the state.60 years ago he always had a hungry stomach,but today he has a happy life.Tsega, the old Tibetan man,has endless stories recalling his more than half a century of life experiences.     

PIONEERS OF A TIBETAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

In the spring of 1981, Zhaxi Cering, then chairman of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Commission of Sichuan Province, brought Qigyia and some others together to discuss the construction of a school. Convinced by the chairman, Qigyia, then 27 years old, left the bustling city of Kangding for remote Dege Zhuqing, thus beginning his 20-odd-year career as a school teacher.When the Sichuan Tibetan Language School was inaugurated on October 5, 1981, Qigyia was a bag of bones due to overwork. To …     

Designer of The 100-Tael-Silver-Denominated Tibetan Currency

Three Generations of Painters Dainba Raodain, whose father was Zongdog Galsang Norbu, was born in 1941. He used to be an elementary school teacher, while also carrying out research on the Tibetan epic King Gesar, and he served as a fine art editor for a publishing house. In 1980, Dainba Raodain was transferred to Tibet University to teach art. He won the Excellence In Teaching Achievement Prize from the State Education Commission in 1990, and the Prize of the Wu Zuoren International …     

The Lhasa Dream of Three Tibetan Sisters

Speaking of ＂the yellow house of Lhasa＂, most people will think of the famed Makye AmeRestaurant on the Barkor Street. But there is another yellow house known as ＂Mani Lhakhang＂ to the east of the Potala Palace. Sitting opposite the yellow house, there is a butter shop run by three sisters from Qinghai Province. Through their hard work and kindness, the three sisters have fashioned their own remarkable story of＂the yellow house of Lhasa＂.     

Analysis of the Story of an Hour——From the Perspective of Feminism

The Story of an Hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19,1894,and originally published in Vogue on December 6,1894.By describing series of emotions that Louise Mallard endures after hearing of the death of her husband,it reveals the heroine——Mallard's pursuit of freedom and enlightenment of feminist thought.The Story of an Hour successfully created a female image of desiring for freedom,longing for a new life even at the expense of life in a patriarchal society.     

Senior Officials in Tibet Appointed by the Government of the Republic of China： Case Study of Lu Hsing-Chi and Others

After the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by the Revolution of I9II, the newly established government of the Republic of China （ROC） was confronted with a dilemma：the warlords were fighting each other and the foreign imperialists were waiting for opportunities to expand their interests in China. Even so, the new Republic government set out a series of political system reforms. As the most important part of political system, the official system directly reflected the reforms.     

COMFORTABLE HOUSING AND HAPPY LIVES OF TIBETAN FARMERS AND HERDERS

In 2006, a hot topic arose in regard to Tibetan economic development. This was the“ comfortable housing project”. A range of new houses and enumerable new villages are rising above the ground at accessible sights such as the sides of roads and grasslands close to villages. Beaming smiles are fixed on the faces of farmers and herders while they are moving into new houses. Since the beginning of 2006, Tibet has launched a comfortable housing project to settle herders, transferring living places for the sak...     

要闻

China,Nepal Jointly Announce New Height of Mt.Qomolangma The new height of Mt.Qomolangma,the world's highest peak,is 8,848.86 meters,according to a joint announcement by China and Nepal on Dec.8,2020.The figure,including the height of the snowcap,was confirmed by surveyors from the two countries,which reached a consensus in 2019 to jointly declare the remeasured height of the peak and conduct scientific research on it.     

GROWING TOGETHER

<正>The sky stretched out clear and bright above our heads as we approached the remote village nestled among the willows and fields high in the mountains.There was the laughter of children and the smell of butter tea as we arrived at the school we had arranged to visit,which was easy to spot with"Braille Without Borders"written conspicuously on a wall in three languages.