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Snapshot: Buying Thangkas in Tongren

by Jessica Marsden on August 6, 2010

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my trip last year to Tongren, in the far east of Qinghai Province. The city is home to two art-schools-cum-monasteries that are, collectively, the capital of Tibetan Buddhist art in China. The monks and former monks paint bright, colorful images of bodhisattvas, called, thangkas, the best of which [...]

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Day 4: Am I in Mongolia… or Tibet?

by Jessica Marsden on July 6, 2010

ULAANBAATAR — When we walked into the Gandan Khiid monastery this morning, I immediately felt I was somewhere familiar. The gold-painted prayer wheels, the square, white central building and the many colorful stupas all reminded me of Tibetan monasteries I have visited in western China. L: Gandan Khiid, Ulaanbaatar; R: Ganden Sumtseling Gompa, Shangri-La It [...]

Tagged as: blogsherpa, Buddhism, Mongolia, Tibet, Trans-Mongolian Diary, Ulaanbaatar

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Snapshot: Lama Temple, Beijing

by Jessica Marsden on April 16, 2010

Once again, I’m writing about a place I revisited on my recent trip to Beijing. In this case, it was the Lama Temple, or Yonghegong (雍和宫). When I first visited the temple in July 2008, I’m not sure I even knew that it was a Tibetan Buddhist temple — much less one of the most [...]

Tagged as: Beijing, blogsherpa, Buddhism, China, Lama Temple, snapshot, Tibet

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Slideshow: Youning Si

by Jessica Marsden on January 8, 2010

At Youning Si monastery outside Xining, small temples are perched precariously on the face of a mountain. They seem almost to cling to the rock, as if afraid they could at any moment slip and slide down to the road below. As you ascend from one temple to the next, you leave behind the fresh [...]

Tagged as: blogsherpa, Buddhism, China, Qinghai, Western China (Aug. '09), Xining

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