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Tibetan treasures exhibition in Beijing

June 21, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

“Tibetan treasures – Tibet Cultural Relics Exhibition Garden” in Chinese Garden-Art Museum Beijing was opened on 16th June. 108 (sets) of precious cultural relics and Thangka from Norbulingka are first exhibited out of the Tibet. This exhibition will last to August.

Norbulingka is located nearly 2 kilometers west of Potala Palace Lhasa, was built in the mid-18th century, Norbulingka in Tibetan means “Previous garden”, It is the former summer palace for Dalai Lama. Ever since 2001, Norbulingka is listed on the World Heritage sites by UNESCO.

The exhibition of cultural relics diverse category, including Tibetan Buddhist deities statues, musical instruments, various rare Thangkas, Tibetan Buddhism Religious articles, different categories of Buddhist texts, copper Yamantaka like, Zijin master Atisha like, gilded patina Tara statue, also Vajra, France bell, Buddhist prayer beads and other supplies, as well as the Dalai Lama’s daily necessities, clothing, and Milarepa Thangka, Tara Thangka. Some of the exhibits items are with age of dating back to the Tibetan Tubo dynasty, of which there are a large part of a national-grade cultural relics

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Tibet railway ticket chaning new policy

June 21, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

Previously, passengers had to return their tickets and rebuy a new train ticket if there is any change to the date or final destination;

From 2015 June 10th, passengers will now be able to change ticket on date or final destination without buying a new one;

The cancellation fee is still 5% if to return the tickets in between 48hour- 15 days before the departure

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Tibet Nimu incense wins Silver award

June 19, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

With the development of the tourism industry, the tourism commodity market expand continuously; In the 7th China International Tourism Commodity Fair, which is held in Yiwu of Zhejiang province, Tibet Nimu incense wins Silver award
nimu-incense tibet incense

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Serta Traffic control

June 18, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

Serta is also Seda, the road from the “T” intersection of Se’erba village to Se-Ke Town, which is the capital town of Serta county, is really bad, ever since 2014 local authority has been working on to rebuild this road, it is expected to be fixed in 2015; the following below is detail traffic control in order to fix this road;

  • Traffic Control sections

    Se-Se Road (XV18 Se-ke Township to Se’erba township) 81km total

  • Traffic Control period

    April 18th to December 30th, 2015;

  • Traffic Control time

    from 8:00 am to 20:00 pm daily

  • Traffic Control Vehicle type

    all types of motor vehicles

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Chongqing to Kangding flight

June 18, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

There are 3 flights a week between Chongqing and Kangding on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; the flight departures at 06:55 with arrival of Daocheng at 08:05am, it takes about 1h10m for the whole air-journey

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Chongqing to Yading flight

June 18, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

There are 4 flights a week between Chongqing and Daocheng on Monday, Wensday, Friday and Sunday; the flight departures at 06:50 with arrival of Daocheng at 08:00am, it takes about 1h10m for the whole air-journey

Yading airport:
Yading Airport

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Flights in and out Kham

June 17, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

In 2009, Kangding airport opened. 4 years after, another airport in Daocheng opens. There are now 2 airports located in the south and east of Kham, and have flights to the cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, Xian, Luzhou, Hangzhou, Lhasa, Kunming. It not only save a huge amount of time for those, whom want to visit the east Tibet of Kham; but also keep the access to the “isolated” Kham a whole lot easier than ever,

Welcome to visit Kham with flights

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Tashilhunpo Monastery

June 16, 2015 by Tibetan Trekking Travel Leave a Comment

Tashilhunpo Monastery is located in Shigatse, the 2nd largest city of Tibet. Its full name in Tibetan means “all fortune and happiness gathered here” or “heap of glory”. It was built in 1447 AD by the 1st Dalai Lama, and was once inhabited by over 4,000 monks.

Brief

The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, who is repected as the 2ndsecond highest ranking Tulku lineage in the Gelug Pa of Tibetan Buddhism.

Tashilhunpo Monastery was seized by the invasion army of Gorkha Kingdom in 1791 AD, soon they were driven back to Kathmandu by a joint army-force of Tibetan and Chinese, and Gorkha Kingdom bow to accept that to keep peace in the future, paying tribute every five years, and return what they had plundered from Tashilhunpo monastery.

Today, 600 monks still live and study there. The Grand Hall contains the tomb, which was built with more than 85 kilograms gold and many jewels, of the 4th Panchen Lama. There is also a 27 meter high statue of the Maitreya Buddha there.

4 Great & 6 Great Monasteries

It is called One of the 4 Great Gelug Pa Monastery togehter with Ganden monastery, Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery; all of the above 4 monasteries together with Labrang monastery currently in Gansu province and Kumbum Monastery currently in Qinghai province are called “The 6 Great Gelug Pa Monastery”

Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tashilhunpo hall
Tashilhunpo monastery

Tashilhunpo Monastery Data


Address & Contact

Add : No. 1, Ji-Jie-Lang-ka Road
Contact : +86 892 882-5220/882-2933

Opening hour

09:00 am – 17:00 pm
The halls are not open from 12:00 pm-14:00 pm

Altitude

3,890 meters

Entrance fee

RMB 100 per person

How to get to there


Tashilhunpo Monastery is located in the west of Shigatse City, it can be reached by foot or by taxi, and it could be fun to take local Rickshaw to get there, which could cost RMB 30 to get to monastery

The Four Major Sects of Tibetan Buddhism


Ganden Monastery
Gelug pa
Pelpung Kagyupa
Kagyu pa
Larung Gar Monastery
Nyingma pa
Sakya monastery
Sakya pa

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