归国藏胞谢文根多·格列嘉措:看尽风轻云淡,吾心自有所属

The Most Precious Cultural Relics and Donations On May 27,2019,a grand donation ceremony was held in Lhasa.Jewon Koodhor Gelek Gyatso,a man known to be the reincarnated spirit of Champa Ling Monastery in Chamdo,made the generous donation as a member of the 13th CPPCC National Committee,the TAR's CPPCC Standing Committee,and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.He also concurrently serves as the vice chairman of the TAR's branch of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and has been warmly welcomed back to his motherland from a life abroad.At the ceremony,the local government of the Tibet Autonomous Region issued Jewon Koodhor Gelek Gyatso a certificate of honor.     

BRINGING THE WISHES OF PEOPLE IN TIBET TO BEIJING——Record on Members of National Committee of CPPCC from TAR in the 5th Session of 12th CPPCC National Committee

<正>Spring has come once again,and as the flowers begin to bud,Beijing welcomes members of the National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)from the Tibet Autonomous Region(TAR)to participate in the 5th session of 12th CPPCC National Committee.These CPPCC members bring the proposals they have worked out based on their comprehensive investigations collected before their arrival in Beijing.The proposals are a compilation of the wishes and voices from the various different sectors of Tibet,and they aim to propel the initiative to develop the Tibet Autonomous     

PROPOSALS FROM SONAM GELEK

<正>Ngabo Ngawang Jigme was one of the most outstanding contributors to the cause of democratic reform in Tibet.On hearing the news of his passing,Sonam Gelek, deputy,director of the Committee on Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the Tibet Autonomous Region,felt at his wit's end.His voice trembled as he said:"We Tibetans have lost our most excellent son.This is a major loss to our undertakings as well as a loss to the cause of ethnic affairs.I couldn't control my sadness."     

Buddhist Manifestations of Patriotism during the Korean War

A great deal of research on the Korean War has focused on the military, politics, economy and international affairs, and far less on the religious, particularly the Buddhist, perspective. The Korean War exerted a tremendous impact on institutional Buddhism, and consequently Buddhists were heavily involved. This paper examines the history of Chinese Buddhist participation in the ＂Resisting America and Assisting Korea Campaign＂ from Buddhist perspectives such as political propaganda, material donations especially the donation of the ＂Chinese Buddhist Airplane,＂ and the enlistment of young monks into the People＇s Volunteer Army （the PVA）. The paper will then look into social and political factors involved in Buddhist leaders＇ reinterpretation of Buddhist doctrines to justify participation in the campaign, as a response to the surge of patriotism in Chinese society. This kind of investigation may shed light on the relationship between institutional Buddhism and politics in the new socialist society of China after 1949.     

New Books

正The Second Long March-On-the-spot record of marching to and liberating Tibet Jampal Gyatso,the author,joined in the Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA)when he was just twelve years old.He witnessed the whole process of marching to Tibet to liberate the people there.This march is referred to as"the second long march"by Marshal Liu Bocheng.During this period,the author took the role as a Chinese-Tibetan interpreter to work amongst     

Talent Cultivation Project Onthe Move

In the golden autumn of 2002, a ceremony was held in Lhasa for the Tibet Development Fund to donate to the Talent Cultivation Project. Nineteen Tibetan students currently studying in the hinterland and Tibetan universities and high schools, whose families live below the poverty line, formed the first group of recipients; 24 others belong to the second group to be aided. Radi (Chairman of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region), Lobsang Toinzhub (Vice-Chairman of the TAR government and advisor to the Tibet Development Fund), and Lhamin Soinam Lhunzhub (Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC Tibet Committee and council member of the Tibet Development Fund)     

40th Anniversary of the Founding of TAR Celebrated

The Tibet Autonomous Region celebrated its 40th anniversary on September 1,2005.From August 27 to September 3,2005,a 57-member Central Government Delegation headed by Jia Qinglin （member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee）were in Tibet for the celebration.     

A Pioneer in Social Studies in Tibet

In May 1942, Li Youyi published his book on Han-Bo trade and the economic and educational organizations in Tibetan lamaseries. With 60 years devoted to Tibetan studies, Li is indeed a pioneer in the field. Now, aged 90, he is widely regarded as a sociologist who pioneered social studies in Tibet.Li entered Tibet in 1944 together with Shen Zonglian, Liu Shengqi and Li Maoyi. They belonged to the Office in Charge of Tibetan Affairs, stationed in Lhasa by the Nationalist government. The decision was made following the     

西藏自治区成立四十周年庆祝大会在拉萨隆重举行(英文)

On September 1,2005, more than 20,000 workers, farmers, herdsmen, cadres and people of various ethnic groups gathered at the foot of the Potala Palace to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Central Military Commission jointly signed a telegram of congratulations, warmly celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the TAR.     

Millennia Anniversary of King Gesar

In November 2001, UNESCO approved China's proposal for celebrating the millennium anniversary of King Gesar in 2002-2003. The Chinese deem this as a confirmation of their efforts to rescue, compile, translate and publish the longest epic in the world. Efforts have since been made to prepare for the event. The National King Gesar Office joined hands with local branch offices to sponsor celebration activities from last June.——Garze in Sichuan held a meeting in the hometown of Gesar in June;     

西藏代表委员的两会好声音

The fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) and the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) are held in Beijing in early March.This year’s gathering,which has returned to the regular March schedule after last year’s postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic,takes on special importance.     

NPC & CPPCC Annual Sessions 2018

正Deputies to the 13th National People's Congress(NPC)and members of 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)gathered in Beijing in early March for their annual sessions.     

Celebrations for the 20~(th) Anniversary of the Founding of the China Tibetology Research Center(CTRC) in Beijing

May 20,2006 marks the 20th birthday of CTRC. On May 18, 2006, CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin made an inspect visit to the Center to extend cordial greetings to Tibetan study workers of CTRC as well as the whole country on behalf of General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao. Mean while Jia made a speech in which he fully affirmed the achievements made by the CTRC over the past 20 years and put forward new demands on Tibetan studies.     

SUMMARIES OF ARTICLES

Zhuang Guotu, Historical Changes in Numbers and Distribution of Overseas Chinese in the World The Chinese emigrated on a large scale since the end of the 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th cen...     

THE ELEVENTH PANCHEN LAMA ATTENDED BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA

正On March 25th,2016,the sub-forum"religious leaders dialogue"of Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2016 was successfully held in Boao,Hainan Province.The Eleventh Panchen Lama,member of the standing committee of the twelfth CPPCC National Committee,Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China,attended the forum and delivered a speech as the honored speaker.     

China Wins BUT THE DALAI LAMA CRIES

Friday, July 13, 2001, was a red-letter day for the Chinese, the Tibetans included. At 22:00 Beijing time, as Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced in Moscow that Beijing would host the Summer Olympic Games in 2008, cheers and hearty applause filled the air, right from Moscow to the whole of China. Champagne, hugs and cheers flowed freely as millions of Chinese citizens gathered everywhere to celebrate the great event to be held seven…     

On the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lozang Thubten Gyatso

The thirteenth Dalai Lama Ngawang LozangThubten Gyatso was a very spectacular and complexcharacter on the political stage of Tibet in moderntimes.His experience of a lifetime of frustrations re-flected the then tempestuous and changeable situation.Any evaluation of a Tibetan political and religiousleader has always been a contentious problem in aca-demic circles,because it involves the explanation andexposition of relations between the Tibetan local gov-ernment and the Central Government after the Revo-lution in 1911. For a long time I have had a keen inter-est in the“the Great Thirteenth,”as he has been called.After a long period of study I have formed my view-point on this historical figure, and I present it here to     

Chinese Socialism as Vernacular Cosmopolitanism

This paper follows the life of an idea, a fundamental concept in modern Chinese intellectual life： socialism. It explores this idea as an alternative form of Chinese cosmopolitanism, drawing from Pheng Cheah＇s identification of two kinds of Chinese cosmopolitanism： mercantile and revolutionary. If part of what we mean by cosmopolitanism is the local use of an external, or international, or otherwise ＂independent＂ （relative to local power and practice） ideology or discourse to promote an agent＇s sense of social good at home and connection to the world, then the ways that socialist thought, ideology and praxis have been employed in China in the twentieth century constitute one such strain of cosmopolitanism. Shehuizhuyi （socialism） meant related but significantly different things to Chinese in the twentieth century. This essay argues that Chinese socialism can be viewed as a version of vernacular cosmopolitanism through two examples： Wang Shiwei in the 1940s and Deng Tuo in the 1960s, as well as the discourse of Pan-Asianism before and after the Mao era. Chinese socialism was as much a terrain of debate and contestation about what it means to be ＂Chinese and modern＂ as it was a shared vocabulary and set of aspirations. All along it has been able to play the role of cosmopolitan thought for some influential Chinese thinkers and doers--connecting China to the world in order to pursue universal values.     

Odd Numbers with Good Luck in Tibet

Tibetan people adore odd numbers as lucky ones, in particular, the numbers of "3", "9" and "13"."3"-the odd number with good luckThe Tibetan ethnic group has long paid much attention to the auspicious date for a marriage if the ceremony and subsequent married life are to have a chance of going well.The dates of making the match with the girl's family, the bride's setting out for her new home and the ceremony itself are all decided by Buddhist experts through     

Birthday Celebrations Of the TAR

The Tibet Autonomous Regionwas founded in 1965, and cele-bration of the event took placein history many times.1965: Founding of the TARAugust 23: The State Council held its158th session, which discussed the reportof the Preparatory Committee for theFounding of the TAR on TAR's founding.It was agreed during the session that theFirst People's Congress of the TAR beheld on September 1, 1965, marking thefounding of the TAR. The motion was tobe submitted to the Standing Committeeof the …