- (Picture) Tibetan Sky Burial
Tibetans don't bury their dead, they leave them for vultures. Take a look >
Please read: Portrait of a Sichuanese-Tibetan Family China Photojournalist Tom Carter follows Buddhist pilgrims on their spiritual quest to the holy monasteries of Southern Gansu's Langmusi.
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- A day in the life of a Tibetan Buddhist
I asked the father and mother to which Tibetan ethnolinguistic category they belonged (i.e. Aba, Chabao-Jiarong, Zhugqu), but the father admitted he didn't know; he was, he said, simply Tibetan. Indeed, such classifications are made by a government on the other side of the country, not Tibetans themselves.
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- Ask an expert: China Travel
Ask any question about traveling in China on Allexperts.com, the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet.
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- Langmusi
Portrait of a Tibetan family and their travels to the Buddhist holy land of Langmusi in Sichuan, Gansu, China. From photojournalist Tom Carter and City Weekend Magazine.
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- Tibetan Photography (before foreign tourists were banned from Tibet)
These photos of Tibet capture something of the peerless beauty and character of the people I came across during my journey from Kham to Ngari: China’s final frontier.
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