Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Tibetan culture has a big influence from the neighbor countries like China, Nepal and India. Especially on food usually most of the time they eat Tsampa( made from barley). Tibetan people in Tibet used to exchange, salt and meat for food. They make their own cloth from yak and sheep because Tibet is located in high altitude.And we Tibetan people belief in arts (Tangka) to strengthen our Buddhism and emotion of life. Tibetan dance is involve in the part of every Tibetan life.Tibetan people sing and dance for nearly all the event. There are different type and style in singing and dancing.About Tibetan marriage, is like if the guy like the girl than he will try to find out her age and date of birth and zodiac sign then, he consult the astrologist to see whether it match with his. If it's matched than with his family they go to girl house to propose and with them they take gift like Katha(auspicious gift), barley wine and etc if the girl family accept the gift that means they said yes to the proposal.
Tibetan calendar is the lunisolar calendar that is, every three year they added one month extra instead of 12months we have 13months, each beginning and ending with new moon.An average Tibetan Year is equal to the Solar year.The month has no name but four month which is Saka Dawa, Celebrating the birth and enlightenment of Buddha.Each year is associated with animal and an element.
In Tibet if someone pass away they take the dead body up high in mountain and give it to birds as offering and we do belief in reincarnation and karma. For me Tibetan culture is very unique and for tibetan people we are blessed to have H.H. the 14 Dalia Lama in our life.

2 comments:

  1. Dickey,
    This is such an interesting blog post about your culture and traditions. I really enjoyed the pictures and I learned a lot.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Dickey,it's meme. I really liked your blog. Eventhough Im Tibetan, I still learned lots.

    ReplyDelete