NATIONAL TIBETAN TERMINOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION CONFERENCE HELD IN BEIJING

The conference, which was the second plenary meeting of the third session, was held from Apr. 28 to 29 in China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing.     

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 …     

TIBETAN TSHA-TSHA AND THAI PHRA-KRUANG

Tsha-Tsha exists in Thailand？
Before the end of 2007 my elder brother brought me some gift upon his returning from a NGO conference in Khon Kean. North Thailand. He told me that he was able to obtain several “rhai Tsha-Tsha” during his stay in Thailand.     

阿热和她的藏餐厅

I still remember the first time I stepped into Are's Tibetan Restaurant back in 2011 when I had just come back from my first trip to Tibet.With memories reverberating in my mind,I started to explore Tibetanstyle restaurants in Chengdu in the hopes of finding some relief through enjoying a simple bowl of buttered tea while reminiscing about the sweet drink served in a warm tea house on the Barkor Street.For the past nine years,I have gone to Are's place with friends every now and again and can never shake the feeling that we are eating and talking in a nice restaurant in Lhasa.     

JIN ZHIGUO AND HIS TIBETAN KNIVES

On a sunny afternoon,40 years ago,several Tibetan herdsmen were sitting cross-legged and dice in the yard of a Tibetan-style inn situated to the east of the Potala Palace.A teenage Han Chinese boy walked up to them and his eyes were drawn to a shining knife half-hidden in the leather Tibetan robe     

青藏高原东北边缘及毗邻地区历史时期的人地关系及其演进

以人地相互作用为主线,本文探讨了历史时期青藏高原东北边缘及毗邻地区人地关系演进的时空背景、作用模式和基本特点,针对三个阶段人地相互作用的主导因素和动力机制的差异,分别建立了"气候波动主导下的人地交互作用模式"、"地缘格局主导下的人地地域互动模式"和"土地承载力限制下的人地关系循环模式"。     

TIBETAN MUSIC AND DANCE Performed in Beijing

<正>In March 2010,the Tibet Autonomous Region selected both national and regional level music and dance items for an intangible cultural heritage performance.On March 25-26th,a performance was given in the Tianqiao Theater,Beijing,to demonstrate the intangible cultural heritage of Tibet in both diversity and abundance.It revealed the beauty of Tibetan culture as one of the preserved special cultures of the Chinese Nation.     

TIBET AND TIBETAN CULTURE IN MY EYES

<正>Tibet Autonomous Region is a place of spectacular scenic beauty.I have had the privilege of visiting it four times.In addition,I have visited quite a few Tibetan areas outside Tibet,including in Qinghai,Sichuan,Gansu,and Yunnan.My visits to the Tibetan areas of China span the years 1985 to 2011.     

KUNSUNG DORJE AND HIS TIBETAN MEDICINE CLINIC

<正>In an alley of the town of Lhakhang,Lhozhag County,is a square building with yellow walls and a red roof that distinguishes itself from the surrounding grayish-white folkresidences.The Khutin Lhakhang,a cultural relic preserved from the times of Tubo,is situated in this small town deep in the Himalayas.After over 1,300 years of vicissitudes,the chapel still stands there in     

A FORMER TIBETAN SERF'S PAST AND PRESENT

正Since 1959, the freed serfs in Tibet have experienced tremendous improvements,reflected with changes in the family of the82-year-old Dawa.Dawa lives in the Khezang Village of Lhoka City in the Tibet Autonomous Region and is one of the few former Tibetan serfs still alive today in the region.Tibet practiced feudal serf system until 1959, and about one million serfs were freed since then, the number of serfs accounted 95 percent of the region's     

MAKING TIBETAN CLOTHES MORE FASHIONABLE AND INDIVIDUALIZED

正Tashi Yongdro, who comes from the town of Geluotuo in Sichuan Province's Serthar County, designs Tibetan-style clothes. Her hometown is near the famous Mt. Leqiong, with beautiful grassland everywhere the eye can see, sprinkled here and there with colorful and bright Kampa costume.Her parents were well-known local tailors. When Tashi Yongdro was a child,her mother often used her own old clothes to make new ones for her. She     

CHINESE AND TIBETAN HISTORICAL RECORDS IN LUMBINI

<正>In the early 1990s,as the senior visiting scholar commissioned by the Education Working Committee(now the Ministry of Education)of the People's Republic of China,I was invited by the Asian Research Center of Tribhuvan University in Nepal to work in Nepal for one year. During my stay I had a rare opportunity,while participating in a Buddhist conference,to     

传统藏陶传承千年再焕新生

Traditional Tibetan pottery has a long history and comes in varying categories and shapes,making it one of ethnic Tibetans’ most refined forms of cultural art.Today,however,very few craftsmen have been able to fully pass on the pottery-making process,and pottery makers have disappeared from the map entirely in some places.     

ROMANO-BRITISH PEOPLE AND THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIOLOGY

Summary.   Despite the vast amount of work and the huge database for Roman Britain, the people of the province remain very difficult to discern. There are many reasons for this, but one is that we have not yet learned to look behind the disjecta membra of archaeology in order to understand the structure and nature of society, and how the Roman Conquest may have impacted upon it. The language of sociology offers scope for thought, especially when combined with examples drawn from historically documented societies in later periods. Whilst models drawn from the classical world are important, attention also needs to be focused on the local, and on the factors that determined the shape of people's lives and influenced their daily activities. Not all these are archaeologically detectable; nevertheless an appreciation of their existence is an important pre-requisite in attempting explanations of patterns in the data.