Lobsang Gelek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4072291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lobsang Gelek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lobsang |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelek |
| SIGNATURE | GELEK L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Guest Editor's Introduction
For Westerners, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on which Tibetan herders live has always been surrounded by a unique aura of mystery. They are drawn, almost to the point of intoxication, by this "summit of a thousand mountains and source of ten thousand waters" in the heartland of Asia, and a good many Westerners are in tacit agreement in regarding this "barren" plateau as virgin soil for anthropology, as a target for exploration, and as a rich garden …
Marital Payments
Among most ethnic groups of the world, marriage is associated with economic exchanges which customarily take the forms of bridewealth or dowry. Bridewealth is a gift of money or goods given to the bride's relatives by the groom or his kin, whereas dowry involves goods or money given by the bride's family to the bride, the groom, or the groom's family. Although discussions of bridewealth and dowry are long-standing, some questions remain. For exam…
The Herders of Northern Tibet
One day, we got up again before daybreak, and in the silent darkness of the night looked toward the north. Thenceforth, we would leave the high mountains and narrow valleys and traverse uninhabited sand flats and grasslands. There were no roads to speak of on these broad lands; digging a ditch or two or piling up a couple of rocks did duty as road markers. Sometimes more than a dozen wheel ruts led in different directions, and if locals had not s…
A General Introduction to Tibetan Culture and Religion
The Tibetans, as one of largest ethnic minority groups of China, are well known in the world because of their unique natural environment and distinctive culture and religion. What follows is some background information on Tibetans and their geographic distribution in China prior to a discussion of Tibetan culture and religion
The Herders of Eastern Tibet
Going west from Chengdu, crossing the famous Mount Erlang, and passing through the much-sung-about township of Kangding, the trip to the Sethar grasslands extends almost a thousand kilometers. After driving along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway westward to Grag-go county town, we suddenly turned northward, away from the highway. Coming to the little town of Ser-ba, we drove about forty to fifty kilometers westward, and then along a narrow gorge. The cl…
The Washul Sethar
In traditional Tibetan cultural geography, Tibet is divided into three regions: West Tibet or Upper Tibet, called To Ngari Korsum in Tibetan; the middle area of Tibet-Tsang (Bar Dbus Gtsang Ruzhi) including the central Tibet cities and valleys of Lhasa, Yarlung, Shigatse, and Gyantse; and East Tibet or Lower Tibet-Dokham (Amdo and Kham, Smad Mdo Kham Sgang Drug). Eastern Tibet is traditionally divided into the regions of Kham and Amdo, and these …
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Guest Editor's Introduction
For Westerners, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on which Tibetan herders live has always been surrounded by a unique aura of mystery. They are drawn, almost to the point of intoxication, by this "summit of a thousand mountains and source of ten thousand waters" in the heartland of Asia, and a good many Westerners are in tacit agreement in regarding this "barren" plateau as virgin soil for anthropology, as a target for exploration, and as a rich garden …
Marital Payments
Among most ethnic groups of the world, marriage is associated with economic exchanges which customarily take the forms of bridewealth or dowry. Bridewealth is a gift of money or goods given to the bride's relatives by the groom or his kin, whereas dowry involves goods or money given by the bride's family to the bride, the groom, or the groom's family. Although discussions of bridewealth and dowry are long-standing, some questions remain. For exam…
The Herders of Northern Tibet
One day, we got up again before daybreak, and in the silent darkness of the night looked toward the north. Thenceforth, we would leave the high mountains and narrow valleys and traverse uninhabited sand flats and grasslands. There were no roads to speak of on these broad lands; digging a ditch or two or piling up a couple of rocks did duty as road markers. Sometimes more than a dozen wheel ruts led in different directions, and if locals had not s…
A General Introduction to Tibetan Culture and Religion
The Tibetans, as one of largest ethnic minority groups of China, are well known in the world because of their unique natural environment and distinctive culture and religion. What follows is some background information on Tibetans and their geographic distribution in China prior to a discussion of Tibetan culture and religion
The Herders of Eastern Tibet
Going west from Chengdu, crossing the famous Mount Erlang, and passing through the much-sung-about township of Kangding, the trip to the Sethar grasslands extends almost a thousand kilometers. After driving along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway westward to Grag-go county town, we suddenly turned northward, away from the highway. Coming to the little town of Ser-ba, we drove about forty to fifty kilometers westward, and then along a narrow gorge. The cl…
The Washul Sethar
In traditional Tibetan cultural geography, Tibet is divided into three regions: West Tibet or Upper Tibet, called To Ngari Korsum in Tibetan; the middle area of Tibet-Tsang (Bar Dbus Gtsang Ruzhi) including the central Tibet cities and valleys of Lhasa, Yarlung, Shigatse, and Gyantse; and East Tibet or Lower Tibet-Dokham (Amdo and Kham, Smad Mdo Kham Sgang Drug). Eastern Tibet is traditionally divided into the regions of Kham and Amdo, and these …
Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (4 works) · Physical geography (4 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works)