Personal Experience of Tibetan Customs

Author: Zhang Zhong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This series of books covers travelogues of sacred mountains and lakes, explorations of folk customs, portrayals of daily life, and visits to numerous famous scenic spots, presenting readers with a mysterious and magical time and space on the plateau.
Table of Contents:
Tibetan Potters, Damu Sky Burial Platform, Temple Fun, Qiangtang Hunting Stories, Sorcerers, Funerals, and Gods in Sanyan, Do Tibetans Eat Fish?, Watching Buddha Sunning in Drepung Monastery, The Life and Customs of a Young Living Buddha, Visiting Tibetan Women in Pastoral Villages, Sadin Town, Scenery, Minqiong Monastery's Ani, The Dance of Vajra in the Kargyu Tradition, Witnessing Bon Religious Rites "Wa Qu Ke," Dama Kang's Witch, Past and Present, in the Snowland, Thunderstorm Abatement Lama's Secrets, Encountering "Man-Bears" in the Nujiang Valley, Tibetan Rock Art, Bamboo Houses on the Foot of the Himalayas, The Mowing Festival in Grassland, The Homeland of Wild Yak, Lhasa's Barkhor Street, Talking About Dogs in the Year of the Dog, Merchants' Customs on Barkhor Street, Glinzing's New Year in Nyingchi, Interesting Aspects of Tibetan Marriage Customs, Gamba's Marriage Customs, Dog Stories, Rizhentang's Barkhor Festival, Golden Fruit Bullfighting, Witnessing the Ploughing Ceremony, The Incense Offering Before Death, Worship of Sacred Lakes and Life and Death, Taboos of Northern Tibet Pastoralists, Jilong's Cliff Burial Customs, Longzhuang Township Chronicle, Women in the Tibetan Opera Troupe, Zhangmu Town on the China-Nepal Border, Old Tibet's Court Music and Dance Inheritors, Chatting About "Tsatsa" Art, Tibetan Folk Aesthetics, Tibetan Clothing, Tibetan Women's Beauty, Tibetan Women's Headwear, Several Types of Tibetan Cuisine, Pastoralists and Qima, Lhoba People: Rice Wine and Rat Meat for Guests, Highland Barley Wine, Blood Feasts, Menba Festivals and Customs, Menba's Composite Burials, Tibetan New Year, Menba Dream Interpretation, Menba Marriage Customs, Lhoba Funeral Customs, Lhoba Tree Burials, Lhoba Witchcraft, Tibetan Traditional Sports, The World Under the Potala Palace, The Auspicious Fire Offering, The Living Buddha Speaks of Reincarnation