As soon as Uncle Ston pa ran away with the king's stallion and clothes, the king sent a soldier to catch him. Although the soldier tried his best he couldn't catch Uncle Ston pa the whole day because the king's stallion was the best horse in the country. ...

This paper describes a single family's preparations and celebrations for the 2010 Tibetan Lo sar 'New Year' in Stong skor Village, Mang ra County, Mtsho lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PR China. It then compares the findings with other studies of Lo...

This article focuses on yurts in Be si chung Village, in Henan Mongol Autonomous County (Rma lho [Huangnan] Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon [Qinghai] Province, China). Background is given on the focal community, yurt typology and construction are examined, an...

Báilán, of the Tŭyùhún Kingdom, is an extremely important place name in the ethnic history of ancient China. Throughout the more than 900 year medieval period of Chinese history–the Wèi, Jìn, Northern and Southern dynasties, Táng, Sòng, and Yuán eras (third to thirteent...

Long ago, there was a remote place where people had barbarously struggled for a better life with their courage and physical strength. When the idea of "karma" was first spread by an itinerant guru, locals often discussed this new concept. One day, a kind man on a journe...

I, Rnam rgyal, was born in 1980 in Skor rol thang (Gu'ertong) Village, Dbra ltag (Reda) Township, Phyag phreng (Xiangcheng) County, Dkar mdzes (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. ...

Blo bzang describes his mother's (Dkar mo rgyal, b. 1962) early life in an A mdo Tibetan herding community presently (2018) located in Rkang tsha (Gangcha) Village, Rkang tsha (Gangcha) Township, Ya rdzi, Zhon hwa (Xunhua) Salar Autonomous Country, Mtsho shar (Haidong) ...

In the course of offering a review of Zhāng Chéngcái's Ways, this paper describes the syntax of noun phrases in the Chinese dialect of Huángshuĭ, in Qīnghăi Province. Unlike other Chinese dialects, this dialect employs several postpositions for indicating syntactic nomi...

What is the relationship between ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity? This paper is part of a broader project to investigate this question in the context of a region of supposed ethno-cultural rupture – the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. My investigations of ethnicity, c...

Intended as a follow-up to Cabezón and Jackson's groundbreaking Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre (1996), Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types: From Genre Classification to Transformation aims to deepen our understandings of Tibetan literature by approachin...