Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 750850254X
Published on: 2003-01
Paperback
The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by continuous stretches of snow- capped mountains. It is in this part of the world the Tibetans have lived and multiplied for generations. With the shared history, culture, nature, religion, and beliefs, they have built up a variety of folkways, rituals, recreations, art forms and festivals. We call these collectively the Tibetan folklore, which has long been amazed and researched by people both at home and abroad, especially by the ethnologists, experts on folklores, sociologists, cultural anthropologists and Tibetologists.
In different regions of Tibet Shannan or Changtang, rural or pastoral areas, eastern or western Tibet, the customs are varied. As a Tibetan saying goes: “Different lama teaches in different ways; different inhabitants have different say; and different nature cultivates different folkways.”
Introduction
Dwelling Customs
1.Tent:The Essential Property of the Herders
2.The Traditional Flat-roofed fort-style Houses
3.The Magnificent Monasteries
4.The Other Kind of Houses
5.Dwelling Etiquette
Dietary Customs
1.Parching the Highland Barley Grains and Milling the Tsampa
2.Butter and Buttered Tea
3.Slaughtering and Meat Storing Season in Winter in Northern Tibet
4.Packer Caravans on the Time-honored Route
5.Tibetan Cuisine
6.Worship to the Oven Deity
Dressing Customs
1.Tibetan Dress Varies with Different Places
2.Aesthetic Points of Tibetan Dress
Marriage Customs
1.The Marriage Customs of the Kamba People in Tsang-region
2.Wedding Songs
3.The ‘Decision Power’ of the Bride’s Maternal Uncle in the Moinba Ethnic Group
4.Wedding Procedures of the Lhoba People: Killing Chicken Ceremony
5.Polygyny and Polyandry
6.The Combination of the Traditional and the Modern Ways--The Marriage of the Lhasans
Festal Customs
1.New Year’s Festival
2.The Linka Festival, Bathing Festival, Ongkor Festival and Horse Racing Festival
3. The Shoton Festival, Great Prayer Festival and Buddha-Painting Unfolding Festival
4. Religious Ties in the Festivals
5. The Festivals of the Laity
6. Why So Many Festivals in Tibet
Worshipping Customs
1. White-color Veneration
2. Mani Stone Mound and Mani Stone Inscription
3. Tsatsa – Combination of Religion and Art
4. The Prayer –flag Linking Deities and Human Beings
5. Cycling Prayer and Prayer Wheels
6. Swastika, the Lucky Sign
7. The Lucky Freed Sheep
8. Inserting Greens
Recreational Customs
1. Tibetan Go Game
2. The Distinctive Stone Throwing Game
3. Dice
4. Kite-flying in Lhasa
5. The Tige Played by Children in Pastoral Areas
Burial Customs
1. The Funeral Ways in Tibet
2. The features of Tibetan Funerals
3. Annotation of the Tibetan People About the Death
