NGAWANG JIGME‘S MODERN WASH PAINTINGS

Having received a thorough college education.Ngawang Jigme naturally expresses his academic knowledge and skills through his washing paintings.Though he grew up on the plateau cating Tsampa and yak flesh,drinking yak buttered tea,living in the clear atmosphere,sunny sky and mountain scenery,he would hardly be expected to tolerate the monotone world of wash painting,which adopts black and white as its principal theme and acknow ledges“blur impression“as the ultimate aim.He strives for total absorption int...     

Ecological Content of Epic King Gesar

King Gesar, an epic created orally by the Tibetans long ago, covers ethnic groups,language, religion, civil affairs, literature and arts,history, politics, military, ethic, ecology and psychology, etc. Thus it is viewed as Tibetan encyclopedia. A study of the epic shows that in view of the fo refathers of the Tibetans, man and nature both have souls and are equal life forms with religious dignity. It is mainly represented in following aspects, the idea of “respecting life and nature” as its core.     

Climate Special for Trip in Tibet

The Tibet Plateau （N26“52”-36“32”,E78“24”-99“06”）lies in mid-latitude zone of the Northern Hemisphere.It covers an area of 1.22 million square km with an average elevation of 4,000 meters in the southwestern corner of the Asian continent.In the east it abuts Sichuan, in the west it is connected with the Kashmir Plateau,in the north it is close to the Kunlun-Tanggulha Mountains,while in the south lie Himalayas above 6,000 meters.     

Fouffeen Mountain Summits:the Dreams and Glory of Chinese Mountaineers

As the first mountaineering team to challenge the fourteen world‘s highest mountain summits,these Chinese mountaineers have finally realized their dream.They are all ethnic Tibetans and have gone through hardship and dangers over the years;some of them have even contributed their lives to the realization of the project.Finally,three of them have accomplished it and set a marvelous record in world mountaineering that is unprecedented.