The Famous West Yellow Temple in Beijing

The West Yellow Temple is currently the location of the Senior Tibetan Buddhist College of China in Beijing, situated at the outer area of Andingmen and Deshengmen. This temple is an over 350 years old and covered with glazed tiles onthe roof, surrounded by a red wall and beautified by giant cypresses in the courtyard. Inside it looks solemn but spectacular. The splendid and exquisite architecture of the buildings is a perfect integration of the styles of Han, ethnic Tibetan and India and is referred to as a treasure of Tibetan Buddhist style architecture.     

浅析代笔书画

Ghostuwriting is a most complicate and difficult problem in the respect of Chinese calligraphy and painting authcntication because the ghostwriting is the requirement of the painter himself and usually approved by him. The painter will cooperate with the ghostwriter and try to be invulnerable. The author introduces such kind of phenomenou in the Chinese calligraphy and painting history in quite a detail. which is believed to he a great help to the authentieators or collectora.     

Cradle of the Gesar Culture

EDITOR'S NOTE: Shiqu is located in the area inhabited by people of the Tibetan ethnic group. It is close to the Gesar Cultural Area in Yushu and Golog of Qinghai, Qamdo of Tibet, Dege of Garze of Sichuan Province. Our visit to that part of the world not long ago shows that Dege is regarded as the hometown of Gesar, and Shiqu is the cradle of Gesar Culture.     

New Books

Outline of Tibetan Historical and Intellectual Theory In producing his book of seven chapters, the author Wang Pu sums up his study by finding that Tibetan historiography did not have any ＂precepts＂ in the compilation of Tibetan history over generations. This is because the motivation behind writing history, from the perspective of Tibetan historians, is neither the seeking of a professional position nor concerning employment, but rather the responsibility of inheriting a culture and obtaining happiness by sharing knowledge. The Tibetan historical and intellectual ideology has been formed by a rich and apparent Buddhist tradition with contemporary characteristics in the expression of each individual historian. The book is priced at 28 Yuan and published by China Social Sciences Publishing House.     

传统女红艺术现代化的先行者——沈寿与她的《雪宦绣谱》

Shen Shou is living modern times setes up revolutionary art of girl modern times education. and self wards off the way. and is the first to do to pay attention to the west in the painting that glossy image is light and shade and the viewpoint that copyd in the realistic writing, the transformation is thawed embroidery in the centre of, smashs China copys in a few thousand the embroidery tradition, morcover by means of the combination against the modern times industry maneuver,the effect coming into being causes this traditional technology advance up the hitherto unknown fresh field of vision.     

复见新人忆旧友

Mr. Fu Youxin is a famous artist of Jiangsu Province. His works is poetic and full of freshness. The landscape in his painting is meaningful and vigorous, while the flower and bird in his painting are full of life and elegance. Nowadays, by learning widely from others, Mr. Fu has accumulated a wealth of life experience and his painting skill is approaching perfection day by day.     

Hand in Hand——Chairman Leqoi Visits California

Nurtured by the moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, California is a beautiful American state. Among its famous cities, San Francisco is the one "most favored by Americans".On May 28, a group of Tibetan government officials and entrepreneurs arrived in San Francisco at the start of a 10-day-long friendship visit to the city and the state at large.Meeting Mayor BrownAccompanied by Wang Yunxiang, Chinese Consul General in San Francisco, the Tibetan delegation, led by Leqoi, Chairman of the Tibet     

谈集锦墨——御制棉花图诗墨

Jijin inks is a famous product in Hui ink family of Qing Dynasty. The imperial ink stick with farming and weaving design is the gem of Jijin inks for its perfect unity of poem, calligraphy and painting. The ink is skillfully made by the famous handicraftsman and selective in materials.     

A SURVEY of the Ancient City of Zhangzhung——Notes on Archaeological Work in Ngari

The ruins of GugeKingdom arefound in Ngari,atthe westernmostpoint of the Tibet Plateau. Itabuts India in the west andsouth,Kashmir in the north-west and Xinjiang in the north.Screened by mountains onthree sides,it is tucked awayat an elevation of 4,000meters. This is a part of theworld which is very dry.TheZhangzhung Culture existedbefore the kingdom wasfounded.     

CRAFTSMANSHIP PUTS ARCHERY ON TARGET

正While most of the shops in Tibet's tourism hot spot of Nyingchi city sell local tourism products,one store in the city attracts customers by selling archery supplies.The owner of the shop is called Baluk,a Tibetan from the city's Mainling County,and the main product of his shop is arrowhead for the local whistling archery sports.The sport is widely practiced in the city's rural and     

BOOKS

Calendaring in Tibet The book was authored by Huang Mingxin, whograduated from the Department of History ofTsinghua Uinversity in 1938 and studied Buddhismin the Labrang Monastery in the 1940s for eightyears. He is an expert in calenderingwhich is an important part of theTibetan culture. The forefathers ofthe Tibetans created calendaring inproduction and life. When com-pared with other ethnic groupsin the big family of the Chi-nese nation, Tibetan calen-daring is advanced. But what is its difference withthe lunar and Gregorian calenders invogue in inland China? How is theTibetan calendar created? And more. The large     

NEW BOOKS

Tibetan Race and Eastern Tibet CivilizationAuthored by Shi Shu, the book probes into the source of Tibetan race and its relations with the ancient civilization in the Henduan mountainous area in eastern Tibet.The book is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is devoted to ancient civilization of eastern Tibet; the second chapter to the source of the Tibetan race plus related stories; the third chapter to the source and ties between Mo tribe and tribes in the Henduan mountainous area; the fifth chapter to Yi people in the Henduan mountainous area in ancient time; and the sixth chapter to concluding remarks.The 32-mo book, running to 235,000 words, has been published by the Sichuan People's Publishing House and is priced at 32 Yuan per copy.     

THE ORCHARD

Behind the Village Committee,there is an orchard with an area of about 6,666 square meters.Though it mainly belongs to the family of Shigyal and Chojor Jinpa,(the Village Secretary),some of the trees in it are allocated to other families.It is only one of the many orchards in the village.Since the orchard lies next to the Village committee where we are stationed,it is like our backyard garden.In the morning,it is full of birds.Each orchard,fenced by walls and thorns,is a quiet and slightly forbidding place in the name of different families.     

THE ART OF STONE CARVINGS AT DOLHA RI KHROD IN MARKHAM COUNTY

Dolha in Tibetan refers to stone carvings,and Ri Khord is“the meditation place at the mountainside“.In accordance with an introduction by staff from the Bureau of Ethnic Groups and Religious Affairs in Markham County,we know that Dolha Ri Khrod was built in 1566 and is currently a nunnery of the Nyima Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.     

THE ART OF STONE CARVINGS AT DOLHA RI KHROD IN MARKHAM COUNTY

Dolha in Tibetan refers to stone carvings,and Ri Khord is"the meditation place at the mountainside".In accordance with an introduction by staff from the Bureau of Ethnic Groups and Religious Affairs in Markham County,we know that Dolha Ri Khrod was built in 1566 and is currently a nunnery of the Nyima Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.     

New Books

Thangka Paintings of the Tibetan Oral Epic King Gesar The book is co-authored by Zhou Aiming and Jambian Gyamco. King Gesar is an oral epic widely sung and performed today by the broad masses of Tibetans. It has been preserved, spread and expanded with an ever- growing length and ever-enriched contents because of the balladeer, or ＂Zongken＂ in Tibetan.     

ALL TUNNELS ON LHASA-NYINGCHI RAILWAY COMPLETE

正Construction on the last two (Mainling Tunnel and Zagar Tunnel) of the 47 tunnels pertaining to a railway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi in Tibet Autonomous Region has been completed on April 7.Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway is a section of Sichuan-Tibet Railway,which is the first electrified railway in Tibet with a total length of 435 km and a designated speed of 160 km per hour.It is expected to be completed by the end of 2020,and start operation in 2021.     

藏汉语言态度和藏语情节(英文)

The language policy being employed in Tibet is"Tibetan language in the majority,but Tibetan and Chinese language side by side".We have already writ- ten articles on language acquisition and the use of Ti- betan and Chinese in Tibet.We find that there is some disparity among Tibetan residents in the acquisition and use of these languages.Subconscious emotion in language has many aspects,including attitudes and actions.We will discuss this in reference to a test analy- sis of attitudes towards the two languages.     

AN ANCIENT NINE-STOREY TOWER IN THE SAMKHAR GUTHOK MONASTERY——An Archeological Study in Lhozhag

Samkhar Guthok, a famous and historic monastery, is situated in a mountain valley in Sai Town of Lhozhag County where it is an isolated paradise surrounded by thick forest and a splendid landscape. In order to take a panoramic picture of the sunrise over the Samkhar Guthok Monastery, the archeological team got up very early, accompanied by Lozang, the director of the Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs for Lhozhag County, and climbed to the top of a mountain where the ancient monastery could be easily seen from above. The view before us was unique and magnificent.     

Discussion on the Symbolic Meanings of The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella which is created by American modern fictions writer Hemingway in 1952. And it is also the author＆#39;s last published novel during his lifetime. Once it appeared, it caused a strong international reper-cussions and set off a burst of＆quot;Hemingway hot＆quot;in literary circles at that time. It tells a story of Cuban fisherman Santiago who did not catch any fish in eighty-four sequential days. And at that case, he finally caught a big marlin by himself. But the fish is too big, he took three days to drag it exhausted and tied up in the side of his boat. However, fortune is fickle, he attacked by sharks repeatedly in the return journey. Finally, he returned to harbour with only a head, a tail and a spine of the fish. In such difficult conditions, Santiago went to sea again with a child.