Tibetan Buddhist monks perform during a Cham dance ritual at the Qoide Monastery in Gonggar county of Shannan prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Feb 19, 2019.
Thousands of Tibetans and tourists celebrated an exhibition of giant thangka-religious images embroidered in silk-to mark the start of the annual shoton, the Tibetan word for yogurt festival, on Saturday.
Work has been completed on the Tibetan Museum for Intangible Cultural Heritage after a nearly two-year construction period, and it will open to public in the second half of 2018.
LHASA — Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has an additional 28 national-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors, according to the latest list released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.