Repair and Conservation of Ancient Tibetan Architecture

SINCE the 1980s, the central government of China has invested huge sums in maintenance of ancient monasteries and construction of new ones. Tibetan temples are instantly identifiable by their gold roofs, red or black enclosure walls, colorful frescos and painted beams and pillars. There are 1,700 temples and palaces in Tibet, most of them hundreds of years old, and     

印度对华政策与中印关系发展对西藏开拓南亚市场的影响

我国加入WTO和实施西部大开发战略,为西藏开拓南亚市场提供了机遇。西藏开拓南亚市场的过程中,面临印度对华奉行两手政策的积极和消极影响,需要针对性较强的政策措施予以应对。     

共产党情结

在西藏，共产党人的形象日益高大起来。比之从前，藏民族更注重的是现在的共产党为群众办实事、为人民谋福利的亲切形象。不到西藏，不下基层，不深入广大农牧民的家中和实际生活，你就很难体会到共产党在藏民族群众心目中的崇高地位和高大形象。这种超乎常理不同寻常的“共产党情结”就像雪山上的雪莲一样清净自然，像高山上的流水一样清澈透明，     

Visit Tibet with an Open Mind

I'm a graphic designer from San Francisco. I'd never been to Tibet before and had only seen a handful of pictures of it. I have a friend who's been here a couple of times, and whenever he talks about it, he gets a dreamy, faraway, happy look. Based on that, I was pretty sure I was in for a really special experience. The little I knew about the Tibetan political situation before the trip was that it seemed to be a mess: that China     

乌拉差役把我们农奴害惨了

距今仅50年前的西藏社会,由占总人口95％的农奴和奴隶(统称“农奴”)与占总人口5％的三大领主(统称农奴主)组成。所谓三大领主即官家(地方政府)、贵族(世家)与寺庙上层僧侣。他们占有西藏全部土地(包括耕地、草场、森林、山脉、河流、河滩、荒地等)以及依附于土地上的农奴、牧奴和绝大部分牲畜。农奴主的土地份额分配比例是“西藏原地方政府直接管理全部土地的40％贵族和寺庙各为30％。而农奴则基本