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Sitting-in-the-bed of the 11th Panchen Erdeni
By:Xinhua
update:October 04,2009

for his excellent academic performance. We made contacts with each other when I worked as a reporter at the Tibet Radio Station. At that time, he was the secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Communist Youth League Committee. Two years before, Losang was transferred to North Tibet to serve as the administrative commissioner of Nagqu Prefecture. Nagqu Prefecture, the largest grassland on the Tibet Plateau, covered an area of 420,000 square kilometers with 7 million head of livestock. I planned to interview  Losang on the development of modern animal husbandry in Tibet and to publish an influential news story on the People's Daily. But out of my expectation, he was elected as the mayor of Lhasa when he was in his late 30s. Now, he was dressed like a herder in North Tibet. I kept greeting reporters reclining against the pillar in the hall or dozing off in their chairs. Gou Tianlin, a member of Tibet Autonomous Regional Standing Committee of the CPC, had his eyes blurred and reddened. Many people seemed to stay awake the whole night, waiting in the Jokhang Monastery for the event.

Lamas leading the sutra chanting were from the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze Prefecture. Later, I learned from some Tibetan friends that those lamas were chanting Ode to the Gold Urn. 

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In the late 6th century, Srongtsen Gampo, the 33rd king of Tubo Tsampo, moved his capital from Nedong along the Yalong Valley to Lhasa River Valley. History demonstrates that peace-making marriage was often adopted as a way to seek peace and stability in ancient dynasties, and this is true to both Eastern or Western countries, for example, peace-oriented marriages among royal families in England, France and Spain, and Wang Zhaojun's marriage to Huns in China's Western Han Dynasty. In the 7th century, after unifying all tribes in Tibet, Srongtsen Gampo first married Bhrikuti, the princess of ancient Nepal, in quest of peace and stability in south Tubo, and then wedded Princess Wenchen of the Tang Dynasty.

While the Nepalese princess brought Tubo Buddhism culture of India and Nepal, Princess Wencheng brought there advanced agricultural and textile techniques of the Tang Dynasty. To date, the Han culture has penetrated into the social life of Tibetan ethnic group, such as the four procedures of diagnosis - observing, smelling, consulting and pul

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