དགའ་ལྡན་ད་ཚང་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་གླིང ། 大 藏 隆 洲 林
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Introduction and overview
Ganden Datshang Lhundrup Ling, commonly known as Dhe-Tsang Monastery, is located next to Chunkou Village (春口村) in Datsang (Ch: Dazang) Township, Barkham (Ch: Ma’erkang) County, Ngawa (Aba) … [Read more...] about Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Palpung Chökhor Ling
དཔལ་སྤུངས་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
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Introduction
Palpung Gonpa (Ch: Babang Si 八邦寺) is located in a township of the same name, in Dege County in western Sichuan Province. The monastery complex is dominated by a four-story main temple, or chölhakhang set on a rocky … [Read more...] about Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Conservation of Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Overview and Introduction
This blogpost introduces my series on historic preservation in Kham. Topics include:
Dhe-Tsang Monastery
Palpung Chokhor Ling
Sacred Art of the Dege Printing House
Traditional Tibetan architecture is beautiful and impressive and adds immeasurably to Tibet’s landscape. Solidly built … [Read more...] about Conservation of Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Overview and Introduction
Vanished Xinjiang
Photos from the 1990s
I first came to Xinjiang in 1991 with a bicycle that I pedalled from Kashgar almost to China's border with Pakistan, a story that is told in my book Among Warriors. In 1993, 1995, 1997, and 2000, I returned to Xinjiang--sometimes to pursue an archeology project that used synthetic aperture radar to … [Read more...] about Vanished Xinjiang
Photos from the 1990s
Tuolaji (a poem)
Roaring The beast Rears up On monster wheels Snout searching For passage Pipe gassing Mud spraying A man astride Levering Pulling Behind, a load. … [Read more...] about Tuolaji (a poem)