Dingqing Reba: Drum Routines and Different Teaching Lines
The careers of Tenzin Chöta, Silang Chözin and Ani reveal distinct local forms of Reba through drum patterns, family learning and community teaching.
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Chamdo: A City Read from River and Hillside
At the meeting of the Ngom Chu and Zha Chu, Chamdo’s riverside streets, raised monastery and upper viewpoints reveal a city built across changing levels.
Jampaling: A Monastery above Chamdo’s Meeting Rivers
Jampaling’s Maitreya image, layered courts and history of rebuilding connect a religious institution with the river city below.
Karuo: A Village Recovered from Earth and Objects
House remains, bone tools, millet and a remarkable double-bodied vessel bring the Neolithic settlement at Karuo into view at several scales.
Trees, Rocks and Fine Lines: Karma Gadri in Chamdo
Karma Gadri painting connects carefully drawn figures with landscapes, while a workshop in Karma Township carries its material knowledge into new forms.
Reading Ranwu Lake by Its Inflows
A field study of Ranwu Lake’s water balance in 2015 traced seasonal contributions from rain and glacier melt. Photographs from May 2012 show an exposed lakebed and sediment work, preserving an earlier moment rather than describing today’s shoreline.
Laigu’s Glacier Lakes, Seen Through a Year of Freeze and Thaw
A 2026 remote-sensing study compared two lakes near Laigu village over one year, showing how seasonal freezing can change the boundaries that satellite radar detects. A 2022 blessing photograph offers a separate, dated human scene at the glacier.
Figures on the River Cliff: Ajuechana’s Rock Carvings
At the Lebuqu–Sequ river confluence in Chaya, nine numbered carved panels form a site whose Buddhist figures and uncertain dating are best read together with its modern history of discovery and protection.
A Letter Cut in Birch: Bolo’s Tibetan Woodblock Craft
In Waichong Village, woodblock carver Zepei describes a craft learned from childhood and carried into a workshop with younger apprentices. The work joins careful material preparation to the exacting demands of Tibetan calligraphy.