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Traveling Back to My Nomadic Roots–Tsekog

Published on August 26, 2014 | in Family, Food, Tibetan Tradition, Travel By |
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  I’ve finally realized the long-awaited journey to my nomadic family in Tsekog, Zekog or rtse khog (རྩེ་ཁོག Zeku). Rongwo Rongbo (རོང་བོ, Longwu), the Reb gong the Golden Valley, was where we started the trip. Rongwo, the seat of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren County, is an ancient town, the heart of renowned Rebgong […]

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Family Life: A Day on the Grassland

Published on August 13, 2014 | in Family, Food, Tibetan Culture, Travel By |
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  A day on the grassland with my paternal family—the biggest family reunion I’ve ever attended. Fifty-six families, 180 people total, from two distinctive worlds (agricultural and nomadic), joined together on Mgar-tse’s grassland in Rebgong, Amdo region. They included farmers, animal herders, educators from elementary school to university, small business owners, doctors, students of all […]

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Tibetan Lha-ba, Mountain God Amyes-magpa, who is temporarily manifested in a human medium, holding his hair and a knife with his teeth after cut his forehead.

Amdo Tibetan ‘Klu rol’ Festival — Part I

Published on July 25, 2014 | in Spirituality, Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Tradition By |
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  Summer is a festive season in Rebgong, Amdo region on the Tibetan plateau, and Klu rol ཀླུ་རོལ།festival is held yearly in many Tibetan villages and a few Monguor villages between June fifteenth and the twenty-fifth of the lunar calendar. My village, Gling-rgyal (AKA Langjia) is one of the most known sites for this folk culture. Langjiais […]

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