Tibetan Culture Records

Here, we will take you on a journey through Tibet’s mysterious culture from humanistic, historical, and geographical perspectives, helping you gain a deeper understanding of this enchanting wonderland.

Barkhor

Barkhor (Wylie: bar-skor, ZYPY: བར་སྐོར་), is the commercial center and busiest street of the old city of Lhasa, Tibet. The Barkhor Ring Road is…

Namtso

Namtso or Lake Nam (officially: Namco; Mongolian: Tenger nuur; Chinese: 纳木错; pinyin: Nàmù Cuò; Tibetan: གནམ་མཚོ་, ZYPY: Nam Co; “Heavenly Lake” in European literature: Tengri Nor, 30°42′N 90°33′E) is a mountain lake on the border between Damxung…

Ani Tsankhung Nunnery

Ani Tsankhung Nunnery (Tibetan: ཨ་ནི་མཚམས་ཁུང, Wylie: A ni mtshams khung Chinese: 阿尼仓空寺; pinyin: Ā ní cāng kōng sì) is a nunnery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in the city…

Yamdrok Lake

Yamdrok Lake (also known as Yamdrok Yumtso or Yamzho Yumco; Tibetan: ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་, Wylie: yar-‘drog. G’yu-mtsho, ZYPY: Yamzhog Yumco; Chinese: 羊卓雍錯; pinyin: Yángzhuó Yōngcuò, Yángzhuō Yōngcuò) is a freshwater lake in Tibet. It is one…

Tibetans

Tibetans (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: bod pa, THL: bö pa) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated to be around 7.7 million. In addition…

Monk Chat

(Debate in Tibetan Buddhism) The practice of debate (known in Tibetan as རྩོད་པ་, pronounced tsöpa) is a central and…

Mount Everest

“Everest”, “Sagarmatha”, and “Qomolangma” redirect here. For other uses, see Everest (disambiguation), Sagarmatha (disambiguation), and Qomolangma (disambiguation). The area surrounding Mount Everest,…

The Shoton Festival

The Sho Dun Festival (Tibetan: ༄༅། ཞོ་སྟོན།; Chinese: 雪頓節; pinyin: Xuědùn Jié), commonly known as the Shoton[1] or Yogurt Festivalor Banquetsince “Sho” means Yogurt and “Dun” means Banquet, is an annual festival held…