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  • Wise Man's Crown : The Law Hat in Himalayan Art (Part One)

    Wise Man's Crown : The Law Hat in Himalayan Art...

    Many years ago, Lume Tsering（ཀླུ་མེས་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཤེས་རབ་）, the seeker of the Dharma, was about to leave his teacher, the great Tibetan Buddhist master, Lachen Gongba Ralse. This year was 978 AD. Before...

    Wise Man's Crown : The Law Hat in Himalayan Art...

    Many years ago, Lume Tsering（ཀླུ་མེས་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཤེས་རབ་）, the seeker of the Dharma, was about to leave his teacher, the great Tibetan Buddhist master, Lachen Gongba Ralse. This year was 978 AD. Before...

  • Bhutan's "Spider Hat" from the Zhuba Tribe in the Land of the Snow Monster

    Bhutan's "Spider Hat" from the Zhuba Tribe in t...

    HatIs the main clothing feature of the Drokpa peopleCalled tsipee cham or Shamo orrtsidpa zhamo(རྩིད་པའི་ཞྭ་མོ། Yak wool felt hat)It is a hat shaped like a spiderMade of yak wool, blackShaped like...

    Bhutan's "Spider Hat" from the Zhuba Tribe in t...

    HatIs the main clothing feature of the Drokpa peopleCalled tsipee cham or Shamo orrtsidpa zhamo(རྩིད་པའི་ཞྭ་མོ། Yak wool felt hat)It is a hat shaped like a spiderMade of yak wool, blackShaped like...

  • Hidden Scent Journey: Pure Blue Nectar

    Hidden Scent Journey: Pure Blue Nectar

    Odors are considered a weapon for people to resist disharmony, a good that creates individual space and sustains public space. Whether it is smoke offerings or incense burning, odors are believed to...

    Hidden Scent Journey: Pure Blue Nectar

    Odors are considered a weapon for people to resist disharmony, a good that creates individual space and sustains public space. Whether it is smoke offerings or incense burning, odors are believed to...

  • A place irrelevant to the Tibetan people: Shangri-La (2)

    A place irrelevant to the Tibetan people: Shang...

    We find that, in general, Tibetans are not as fragile as other ethnic groups because they are accustomed to high-altitude environmental conditions; and they are kind-hearted, so we have taken...

    A place irrelevant to the Tibetan people: Shang...

    We find that, in general, Tibetans are not as fragile as other ethnic groups because they are accustomed to high-altitude environmental conditions; and they are kind-hearted, so we have taken...

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