How Tibetans Pray

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The Tibetans

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet. They are mostly in the People’s Republic of China. They number 5.4 million and are the 10th largest ethnic group in the country. Significant Tibetan minorities also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

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Thousand Images Buddha Temple

Poor citizens of Lhasa who cannot afford to invite Redeem Thangka Buddha to release the soul of the dead from purgatory, usually buy some dyes to re-paint the stone Buddha statue, to achieve the same effect as that of Redeem Thangka Buddha.

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Tibetan Cultural Show

A very impressive show using modern technology plus creativity for backdrops. Please enjoy!

Tibetan Mastiffs

Tibetan Mastiff dog breed belong to an ancient stock. It is believed that at least most of all mastiffs descend from that old Tibetan stock. Tibetan Mastiffs is very large. They were once used to guard the holy city of Lhasa and even now those few that remain in Tibet still make excellent guard dogs. The breed began to die out in Tibet during the 19th century until English breeders took them home and bred them. Even now they are still rare. English Mastiffs are quite gentle. 

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Lhasa to Shigatse:  Magnificent  Mountain, Lake & Glacier

Shigatse was previously known as Samdruptse. The city of Shigatse is the hub of the road network between Lhasa, Nepal and western Tibet. It is located at an altitude of 3,840 metres (12,600 ft) at the confluence of the Yarlung Zangbo (aka Brahmaputra) river and the Nyanchue in west Tibet and was the ancient capital of U-Tsang province.

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Baiju Temple

The Baiju Temple is located at the northeast of Jiangzi County, Tibet and at an altitude of 3900m. It was started in the second year of Xuande Period during Emperor Xuanzong’s reign in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1427) and completed ten years after. Baiju Temple is a Han Chinese name. Its Tibetan abbreviation is “Banguo Deqing”, meaning “Wheel of Happiness in Lucky Temple”. It is a typical Tibetan Buddhism temple that combines the pagoda and temple, “with pagoda in the temple, and temple in the pagoda”. Temple and pagoda are harmonized to highlight each other.

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Tashi Lhunpo

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is seat to the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet. In 1447 the Monastery was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in Shigatse, Tibet’s second largest city. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet and was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the Gelugpa, or Yellow Hat tradition. It has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy and Tantra.

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Enroute to Tibet: Jinli Ancient Street, Chengdu

Jinli Ancient Street

This is a busy trading street with a history stretching back to the Qin Dynasty around two thousand years ago. Today, a new Jinli Street has been built on the site of the ancient lane in the southern part of Chengdu. It has become a tourist attraction, featuring aged buildings and folk customs from the area combining the ambience of ancient and modern China. Visitors come to relax, admire the traditional-style buildings, buy some curios and taste some local snacks.

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Enroute from Tibet: Green Ram Temple, Chengdu

Here, we find Buddhism and Taoism co-existing in the same temple. On the morning of the moon cake festival, many came to pray and to do their daily exercises.

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Enroute to Tibet: Sichuan Opera House

Sichuan opera is a characteristic of Sichuan culture. Chengdu is the home of this opera. Sichuan opera features melodic singing, refined acting, rich percussions and unique skills.  See for yourself the “magic” of faces changing, lamps rolling, shadow playing, marionette figures (stick-puppets) etc.

Enroute to Tibet: Panda Research Centre, Chengdu

This centre is not only dedicated itself to giant panda conservation, but has also made great efforts to combine natural scenery and man-made landscapes to create wonderful and humane living areas for giant pandas and red pandas. Red pandas are not red coloured giant pandas as most people would think. Often, they are mistaken for a cross between foxes and racoon due to their red brown fur and long tail (with racoon-like stripes).

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