China Cultural Chronicles February 7, 2013

• Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre #15

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  Dance performance by the Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre from China at the Raffles City Shopping Centre during the 2013 Chinese New Year Festive for Spring in the City

• Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre #13

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  Dance performance by the Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre from China at the Raffles City Shopping Centre during the 2013 Chinese New Year Festive for Spring in the City

• Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre #14

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  Dance performance by the Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre from China at the Raffles City Shopping Centre during the 2013 Chinese New Year Festive for Spring in the City

• 水墨，李瑜

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• 水墨，李瑜

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• 水墨，李瑜

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• The eyes

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• Blind Devotion 2

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  Tibetan Buddhist nuns during the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra puja, Andhra Pradesh, 2006
  
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• Play

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  Two white tiger cubs playing around. Chime long safari, Guanzhou, China

• Imlek III

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  Third and final part.
  
  In Indonesia in 2000 newly elected President Wahid abolished the ban on public displays of Chinese culture which had been in force since the early 1960s. This meant that for Chinese Indonesian 2000 was especially auspicious, as not only was it the year of the Metal Dragon, but for the first time in decades they could practise their Imlek celebrations freely, without the need of a permit. They flocked to their temples in their hundreds of thousands.

• Landscape behind Taktsang Lhamo Monastery, Tibet 2012

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  Founding (1402-1424 (probable)) > Monk: 834 (1995; 1958) > Geluk
  ཀི་རྟི་དགོན་པ། > Kirti Gönpa > ki rti dgon pa
  
  Taktsang Lhamo Monastery (stag tshang lha mo dgon pa) by Gray Tuttle
  Taktsang Lhamo (stag tshang lha mo)/Kirti Monastery (ki rti dgon pa) was a monastic polity exercising joint political and religious rule of a wide area before 1949, based mainly in Dzörgé (mdzod dge; Dzögé in Standard Tibetan pronunciation) but extending into Ngawa (rnga ba) and Markham (smar khams) counties in Ngawa Prefecture and Sangchu (bsang chu), Luchu (klu chu), and Tewo (the bo) counties in Kanlho (kan lho) Prefecture.[1] Taktsang Lhamo seems to be the mother monastery of the Kirti Monastery in the same valley, as well as many other monasteries in Tewo. The two have not always cooperated though, as is clear from Ekvall's account of his time there, in which he calls Kirti: Gurdi Monastery. What the extent of the monasteries control over the plains of Dzögé remains to be determined, though some sense of this might be extracted from Ekvall's work.
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