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TASHI SHOELPA — The dance of Good Luck / YAKTSE — The dance of Yak / DOPA DRODUNG — THE DRUM DANCE / CHOLSUM MERIK (more…)

From its humble beginning forty years ago, Tibetan Children’s Village has today become a thriving, integrated educational community for destitute Tibetan children in exile, as well as for hundreds of those escaping from Tibet in recent years. It has established branches in India extending from Ladakh in the North to Bylakuppe in the South, with over 14,000 children under its care. (more…)

Tibetan History begins with the incursions of Tibetan K’iang in Central China when Buddha was living in India. Confucius and Lao-tseu in China (5th century B.C.). The History of Tibet can be divided in two parts= the first one with the establishment and the end of the Tibetan Kingdoms, the second with the establishment and the end of the Dalai-Lama Theocracy. During both periods civil and religious problems are mixed and (more…)

Tibetan thangka painting is based on the Indian religious art of pata and mandala, complex painting whose designs were used in certain religious rites. The principal artistic schools from which Tibetan painting is derived were in Western India and date back to the 7th and 8th centuries. The influence of these schools was felt throughout Central and Eastern India, eventually reaching Nepal from where it filtered into Tibet. (more…)