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:
history
Sacred Art of the Derge Printing House
Information in this post is drawn from published sources and Kham Aid Foundation archives. Background For nearly three centuries, the Derge Parkhang, or Printing House, (Tib: སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང། Ch: Dege yinjing yuan 德格印经院) has served as a repository of Tibetan literary and religious culture like no … [Read more...] about Sacred Art of the Derge Printing House
Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)
(See Part 1 here) The monastery in 1949 Lithang Monastery was preparing to enter the second half of the 20th century with its finances in good order, probably thanks to effective management of assets such as herds, a prosperous local community, and alliances with other Gelug monasteries that … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)
Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)
Note to Readers Lithang Monastery is formally known as Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling. The original Tibetan is བྱམས་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྐོར་གླིང་། which is “ga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling” in Wylie transcription and 长青春科尔寺 (Changqingchun Ke’er Si) in simplified Chinese. It is also sometimes called … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)
How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book
Talking to Tibetans in Kham using the Chinese language, one often hears the phrase wenhua dageming. It translates to “Great Cultural Revolution,” which was a violent and extreme political movement in China, engineered by Mao, that started in 1966 and ended with Mao’s death in 1976. I often heard … [Read more...] about How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book