Then again in
Gyantse, she witnessed how Tibet was slowly losing its culture to the modernization of China and how the Chinese scrutinized the activities of the Buddhist monks.
We go around the Yamdrok Lake and make our way to
Gyantse, another small city on the traditional trading route to India.
LHASA TO
GYANTSE: The famous Potala Palace is the magnet that catches our collective imagination.
Copies of letters he wrote to his family describing the "beastly" ascent to the
Gyantse Jong fort also formed part of the auction.
(6.) As in the case of the rectangular chapels in the 15th-century Great Stupa of
Gyantse, southwest Tibet, which are regularly defined as dkyil-'khor (Tibetan for "mandala") in the contemporary inscriptions and texts describing them.
Recent research by a professor at Tibet University, for example, indicates that the practice of fraternal polyandry in
Gyantse county of central Tibet continues to be widespread, despite having been formally outlawed years ago by the Chinese government (Dekyi).
A trip to central Tibet, comprising the
Gyantse, Shigatse and Lake Yamdrok regions, is especially suited to those who are exclusively in search of cultural tourism.
In around the seventh month of Hor, by way of Yamdrok (yar brog), we reached
Gyantse (rgyang tse), which is separated from Zhalu and Tashi Lhunpo (bkra shis lhun po) by a river.
Fraser's report on painting workshops in the 1940s, following the systematic destruction of Tibetan art and architecture during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and before; meaning and festival use of giant ritual applique thang kas in
Gyantse, by Michael Henss; and recent textual evidence for the biography of the 17th-century Karma pa of Tibet, by Irmgard Mengele (author affiliations are not noted).
Under the agreement, the British secured rights to establish trade marts at
Gyantse, Yatung and Gartok, and virtually established a British protectorate on Tibet.
IV, part 1:
Gyantse and its Monasteries (English translation), New Delhi, 1989, pp.