Tibet

Himalayan Ice peaks, desert sand dunes and the River Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra), Tibet

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Landscape of Tibet
Tibet is the highest country on earth with an average elevation of over 4000m. The lowest regions of Tibet are still over 2000m above sea level with Jomo Langma (Everest,Sagarmatha) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ being the highest point at 8848m. Tibet is covered in grasslands, mountains and valleys.

Many of Asia’s largest rivers have their headwaters in Tibet such as the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River), Dri chu འབྲི་ཆུ་ (Yangtze), Nag chu ནག་ཆུ་ - རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ (Salween), Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra) and Dza chu རྫ་ཆུ་ (Mekong). Western Tibet (Ngari) is a high, arid region with few people, while southeast Tibet (Kham) is forested and suitable for farming. Northern Tibet (Amdo) is covered in vast grasslands filled with yaks and sheep and central Tibet (U-Tsang) is the most densely populated area of Tibet lying along the fertile Yarlung Valley.
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Tibetan new year, Aba, Sichuan

Nine Goldfish in Free Style Chinese Painting by Henry Li

九如图- Nine Goldfish is a good omen in Chinese, which suggests best fortune. Materials List Brush:Combination Brush of Goat and Wolf hairs, www.blueheronarts.com Paper: single Xuan. Paints: Marie's Chinese painting colors, Ink: ground ink paste from tung oil soot Inkstick. Glue Water: Peach Sap Glue Powder www.blueheronarts.com * Translation of the corner seal: "Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap" which is a line from the Taolist master Chuang Tzu. He said: "The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" My interpretation: getting the right painting brush is necessary to paint the fish, but it is more important to captured the happy spirit of the fish. If you've gotten what I am trying to say, forget about my poor English words. :-) I carved this seal 25 years ago when I was a graduate student in Nanjing University. * If you like it I can make a seal like it for you. www.BlueHeronArts.com

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Chinese Painting (Discovering China series)

As you turn the beautifully-illustrated pages, you will get some essential ideas about Chinese painting while appreciating some vivid figures, awesome landscapes, exquisite flowers and dainty insects best representing its achievements. The book starts from the ancient invention of paper, a must in the development of Chinese painting, till its renewal and innovation in the modern time.

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