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Ancient Thangka painting rejuvenates local economy in NW China

Thangka, a style of Tibetan scroll painting depicting Buddhist deities, which is painted onto cotton or silk using mineral and organic pigments, is now rejuvenating the local econo...

2019-03-27

Feature: Thangka art: the tale of a Tibetan family

Norbu Sidar, a thangka master, spent his teenage days reciting vast sutras from Buddhist scriptures, and made sure that his nephews Konchoge and Tsering did the same.

2019-03-21

Intangible cultural heritage workshops open in Tibet

Tibetans in poverty-stricken areas will have a chance to make their way out through traditional craftsmanship, since 10 workshops were set up Saturday in the county of Nyemo in sou...

2019-03-18

300 mln yuan invested to protect Tibet's intangible cultural heritage

China has spent 300 million yuan (44.8 million U. S. dollars) protecting the intangible cultural heritage of Tibet over the past 13 years, local authorities said Friday.

2019-03-04

Sincere hearts of thangka artists

Thangka, an outstanding cultural heritage of the Tibetan people, is a unique form of painting in Tibetan culture.

2019-02-25

Intangible cultural heritage experience class settles in Tibet University

On January 12, 5-year-old Tsering Drolkar dances around while a teacher plays drums in a Repa dance experience class at the Tibet University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubat...

2019-02-03

Tibetan intangible cultural heritage learning base established in Shenzhen

Recently, 26 Tibetan students from Rangtang County in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, devoted themselves to Tibetan pottery making in the the first p...

2019-01-22

Intangible cultural heritage experience center opens in Yushu

On the gorgeous Batang Street, one can see past a visually stunning Rainbow Bridge to a two-story building, featuring plain yet modern elements. This is the intangible cultural her...

2019-01-15

“Ko-ze” yak skin boat dancing

The yak skin boat dancing, also called “Ko-ze” in Tibetan, is a kind of song and dance for boatmen’s entertainment. In Tibetan, ko means “yak skin boat”, and ze means “dance...

2018-12-18

The inheritance of Tibet’s Pusum carving

Pusum Township of Nyemo County, 150km away from Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, is hailed as the “hometown of carving”.

2018-12-09

UNESCO lists Tibetan bathing

Traditional Tibetan bathing for health and healing was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list on Nov 28.

2018-12-07

Misunderstandings about traditional Tibetan medicine

With its snow-capped mountains, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest plateau in the world. It is also the birthplace of a marvel in the medicine world: traditional Tibetan medi...

2018-12-07

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