RTSE DRUGDGON MONASTERY ATYPICAL BON RELIGION MONASTERY

My First Visit to Rtse Drugdgon Monastery I first heard about Bon religion through a friend ten years ago.Having heard from him how people refer to Bon religion as an"evil religion"and sometimes a"black religion",I became quite terrified.In fact,Bon religion was actually the original Tibetan religion. Piously I prayed:"If one day I visit Tibet,please do not let me encounter Bon religion!"     

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     

TSANGPA VILLAGE——A SNUG AND SILENT PLACE

Just 20 kilometers from Bayi Town,several tall houses were scattered sporadically across a hill. The car turned on to the mountain path and headed towards Tsangpa Village,beset on all sides by the landscape.     

A COLLECTIVE APPROACH TO PRODUCTION LIFTS THE ECONOM＂ OF A SMALL VILLAGE IN NORTH TIBET

An improved income for a tiny village in a sparsely populated area of Northern Tibet, where about 90 households are living, is the result of taking a collective approach to production over a number of years. The people of the village are living in spacious and comfortable houses where they can access both radio and television programs.     

A Journey INTO THE QOMOLANGMO AREA (Ⅱ):TOUR OF GYANGZE

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second part of story, which will take you to Tibet.After the Yamzhog Yumco Lake, one may cross the Kari La Mountain to reach Gyangze Town. The Quxoi Bridge is 196 km from Gyangze and Nanggarze is only some 90 km from the town. There are two routes leading to the town: Leaving Xigaze in the morning to go southeast for 86 km along the Nyang Qu River; or, entering Yadong and reaching Gyangze via Pari.Gyangze stands on the northern bank of the Nyang Qu Rive…     

Teachers of Tibet University(Ⅱ)

Probing Effortsand PioneeringSpirit-Story of Vice-PresidentLobsang NangyalAll the teaching staffand students ofTibet Universityspeak highly of LobsangNangyi,citing his probingefforts and pioneering spiritas the model for emulation.Lobsang Nangyal wasassigned to teach in TibetTeacher's School when hegraduated from Lhasa Mid-dle School in 1964.     

TRADES,CRAFTS AND CREDIT IN A VICTORIAN VILLAGE: A TRADING FAMILY IN MILFORD,SURREY, 1851–1881

Abstract

Blacksmith James Luck’s papers indicate a complex web of credit in Milford, a small Surrey village, in the mid-Victorian era. His family benefited from contacts secured through loans, with the wider rural economy clearly depending on payment for goods and services being stretched over a long period of time. Despite the rise of banks and a national communications system, local knowledge and trust continued to be of significance. Local traders and their customers relied heavily on credit so it was important that the great majority of their transactions were sound. The records of James Luck illuminate this under-appreciated but significant aspect of 19th-century British family and community history.     

Scientific Exploration At Namjagbarwa Mountain(Ⅱ)

IncompanywithaChineseMountaineeringParty,IcametoNanfengPeakforthesecondtimeinSnrinq.1984.OnMarch9,thegroupofinvestigatorsandclimbersheadedtbrthehighestpeakafteralongmarchthroughanimmensefOrestandsnowt1eldatanaltitudeof3,6004,200meters.At4,200meters,wefin…     

JOURNALS on Tibet an Studies(Ⅱ)

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古粟特文信札(Ⅱ号)

时间 :公元 31 3年 6月 / 7月信件 :41 .5× 2 4厘米 ;封面 :1 4× 9.5厘米书写人 :那耐·万达克 ( Nanai″vandak)1 90 7年斯坦因发现于敦煌以西长城烽燧遗址中。发现号 T. a.ii.2 ;编号 82 1 2 / 95 (信 ) ;82 1 2 / 99.1 (信封 ) ,99.2 (包裹 ) ,99.3 (原粘连在信封上的碎纸 )。1(见封二 )现珍藏于大英图书馆。信以墨书写于纸上 ,里层用丝绸包裹 ,外包装是麻织物 ,并有墨书字迹。1 90 7年斯坦因教授在中国西北敦煌以西的长城烽燧遗址 (发现号为 :″T. .a″)中发现了一组非常重要的信札 ,该信件就是其中的一份 ,以前从未公开陈列过。这…     

Qinghai-Tibet Railway (Ⅱ): Environmental Protection Highlighted

The State authority concerned gathered various expert opinions in order to develop an ecologically friendly railway. An appraisal meeting was held in Beijing, and the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region set up a leading group, headed by Leqoi, the     

BELL,BOOK AND SCANDAL: THE STRUGGLE FOR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN A SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE VILLAGE 1880–1890

Abstract

Compulsory elementary education for children up to ten years was introduced by an Act of 1880. The difficulties in implementing it in a rural area during the ten years which followed are examined here by linking data from the school records of the village of Steeple Morden in Cambridgeshire, to those in the 1881 census enumerators’ books. The findings support those of Horn (1990, 1978) but suggest that opposition to the Act may have been underestimated. It would appear that socio-economic conditions in rural areas at that time were such as to make full attendance impossible.     

Review of the 3-River Project(Ⅱ)

Ｒｅｖｉｅｗｏｆｔｈｅ３－ＲｉｖｅｒＰｒｏｊｅｃｔ（Ⅱ）Ｔｈｉｓｉｓｔｈｅｆｏｌｌｏｗ－ｕｐｒｅｖｉｅｗｏｆｔｈｅｃｏｍｐｒｅｈｅｎｓｉｖｅｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔｏｆｔｈｅｖａｌｌｅｙｄｒａｉｎｅｄｂｙｔｈｅＬｈａｓａ,ＮｙａｎｇＱｕａｎｄＹａｒｌｕ...     

Behind the Dalai Lama's Holy Cloak(Ⅱ)

Editor's Note:Dalai Lama has been changed so popular these years that it seems he becomes a logo to some extent.But who is the Dalai Lama?Most of people are puzzled.Not long before I read a couple of papers and enjoyed them very much.Maybe our read-ers are willing to share them and interested them.     

TIBET'S LAST CARAVAN WITH TRANSPORTING SALT(Ⅱ)

After a gap of four days, we came across the caravan again. We picked an optimal point and took a picture of the marching caravan with the snow-capped mountain as its backdrop. While the caravan was plodding along, Galsang Wangdui was not idle, as he was busy in twisting wool into strings with a 1/3rd of a meter-long stick until they became strong ropes. When we finished photographing the caravan of Galsang Wangdui, we advanced ahead to locate the caravan. Soigya was shuttling among the cara…     

Songs Wafted From the Tea-Horse Trade Route(Ⅱ)

When we got to the Naxi ethnic town in Yanjin, it was already dark. We were taken to theQoizeka Hot Spring, with an elevation of some 2,000 meters. The Hot Spring Swimming Pool, fed with water from 108 springs, is as large as half a football field. As it is close to the Lancangjiang River, our ears were filled with the roaring sound of the river.We met at an academic meeting in a pavilion by the river after dinner. It was agreed that the Henduan Mountains constitute one of the three major areas where the world's plants are concentrat-     

Policy Changes With Regard to Tibetan Language(Ⅱ)

From the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951 to 2000, Central Government policy for language development in Tibet has experienced many changes. But despite transformation through three stages, the basic points have never changed.(I) CREATION OF A TIBET LANGUAGE POLICY(1) In the 1950sThe 17-Article Agreement signed by the Central Government and the local government of Tibet in 1951 for the peaceful liberation of Tibet stipulated     

50 YEARS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AID TO TIBET(Ⅱ)

From March 14-15. 1980.Hu Yaobang, then General Secre-tary of theCPC Central Committee, chaired the First National Work Conference on Tibet.It was decided that efforts be made to put right the wrongs suffered by some 1,000 religious figures, and to give them new jobs. Beginning in 1980, the gov-ernment would not issue a mandatory plan on produc-tion and cultivation: Tibetan farmers and herders would pay no agricultural or live-stock breeding tax, These new policies were made public by th…