How to handle the Tibet travel permit?

Are you receiving a letter of notice which is come from your friends that make you feel whiny about your Tibet travel from Nepal? Maybe you have already prepared everything to visit China, your bag, your camera, your sport clothing, your expecting… And you are excited and happy in that you will have a wonderful travel to Tibet. But the “Tibet travel permit” upset you. Oh, I am sorry to refer to you sore spot.

But believe in me, it is easy to handle the “Tibet travel permit”, all of this are needed, so we have to handle it. To return to the subject, now, I will tell you some thing about the “Tibet travel permit”.

At first, what is the “Tibet travel permit”?

It is a gate pass to the Tibet. If the person who want to get into the Tibet but she or he does not have the Chinese citizen identity, the people should make the “Tibet travel permit”. For instance, the foreign tourism guests, Taiwan and overseas Chinese tourists. So, if you travel from Beijing to Tibet, you can omit this step.

The next, why do they should hold the “Tibet travel permit” to get in the Tibet?

In consideration of the special national tradition, the Tibetan cultural historical sites and the need to protect the ecological environment, but also because of the traffic in Tibet and tourism service facilities and reception capacity. So there are some needs that we should obey.

Then, how to handle the “Tibet travel permit”?

Directly Submit your basic information--including name, nationality, age, gender, occupation, passport number; the Tibet line, roughly travel time, travel intentions and your telephone number and so on to the Tibet tourism bureau in the designated agency. For example, if you are in Kathmandu, and you want to enjoy the Lhasa and Kathmandu tour, you can send above information to the Tibet agency in the Kathmandu. At the same time, Email the first page of the passport and the copies of visa to the travel service. And then, wait for two to four days, they will response you as soon as possible. Although there is only three days to review the approval letter issued into Tibet, but considering the ticket, hotel, guide and vehicles travel issues arrangement reservation, please as early as possible to handle the formalities of application, so that affirm the travel routes, time, place ect. Although you are in Xining, maybe you think it is nearly to Tibet, and the train from Xining to Lhasa is convenient to catch. I think it is better to advance your time to submit the basic information.

Matters needing attention!

The foreign reporter and the diplomatic officer cannot get in the Tibet as a tourist. And after you receive the “Tibet travel permit”, you can buy the train ticket or air ticket. After the travel, you should not take away the “Tibet travel permit”, it will keep in the archives.

The last but not the least! Everything is ready, and all that we need is an east wind. So, although you are urgent to begin your travel to Tibet, you should check all of the needs you have gotten ready. Surely, I hope what I say will help you.

Dare you try these eight things in the Tibet?

Stay in a Small hotel to be in a daze: go board in the train and begin the Lhasa and Tibet travel. And then stay in a small hotel of the travel, to be in a daze for half a month. You can do nothing, and also you can do everything; you can go everywhere you want, and also you can just stay. Even the best is that your phone is lost; and lose touch with all of the acquaintances, stunned, daydreaming, in search of food, use your feet to measure the mysterious region.

Climbing the Everest: if you come to the Tibet, you cannot miss the tour to Everest base camp. Try your best to climb the Everest for once a time. Whether you sledding, or go by the people’s stretcher, or wear several fur coat, I also want to further toward the Everest's summit. Even if come across the avalanche and result in sleeping in the snow mountain, but short of regrets.。

Get married in the snow mountain: ask the yak as supporting for taking the wedding picture. If the day when you get married, rent one hundred yaks to be the bridesmaids for the wedding picture taken. A group of yak adds the Snow Mountains; the wild and the holy are coexisted; believing in me, such as this view, any a wedding set decorator will be in shame.

To be an environmental volunteer: to be a “guard” for the Tibetan antelope in half a year. The beauty Tibetan antelope, how helpless and sorrow the expression in their eyes is! I want to use a rifle, and be with the other volunteers together to care their running heroic posture. At the same time, make friends with them; use the lens to record their footprint.

Learn to be a monk: learn to be a monk for a month in the temples. I afraid that is not possible to be a pious Quaker who is kowtowing for warship. But I want to spend a month life to be a monk in the Potala Palace. And I am desire less, well, I just pray to Buddha; burn the light; sweep the floor; and seek a piece of pure land for heart.

Become a volunteer teacher in Tibetan: teaching for the primary students in Tibet. They may be full of unknown curious to the outside world, so, let me teach them Chinese; and let them know more; let them take a little more yearning for future life. If it is possible, to take several accomplished students to the bustling city, such as Shanghai, the train from Shanghai to Lhasa is so convenient; let them melt into the city life.

　  Live in the Tibetan’s home to herd: shepherd, milking and live the tent together with the Tibetan. The nomadism, the roam, I can't resist the   natural temptation of these vocabulary. I really sick in the stony city forest, I only want to do a shepherd; and send out the sheep at sunrise; bring the sheep back home at sunset. I will milk and cut hair for them, together with nomads living in the tent to wander and joy.

Write a journal about the tour to Tibet: write a personal Tibet travel journal. In consideration of I have not yet in Tibet, the above ideas belong to the fancy, which one day to come true, I will write a personal Tibet journal. Use my heart to record little things in Tibet, one thousand kinds of amorous feelings. The Tibet Railway get though, all of the ideas should be no longer far away.

Kha-btags—the dancing cloud in the grasslands

Maybe you have ever watched the kha-btags from the TV, the newspaper, the radio receiver and know some thing about it. But in your opinion, what does it really means? What the origin of the kha-btags? And if you want to know some thing more about it, yeah, please follow me.

     As it is known to us, the kha-btags is the characteristic thing of the Tibet. It is a kind of etiquette supplies. And it is universal than before. It is said that the kha-btags is come from the Sichuan, yeah, there is the delicious food in Chengdu, and the city is like the kha-btags. Also the sight of Chengdu to Tibet travel is like the kha-btags. The kha-btags what is we generally seen is mostly white which symbolizes purity and auspicious. Nevertheless, the white one is one of the kha-btags. And what is the other? Yeah, just as you think, it is unusually special. It has a beautiful name that is the five-coloured hata. It is dedicated to a living Buddha or close relatives and for doing the colorful arrow as the grand gift. You can image how beautiful it is after I told you the name of it. Wow, it is consisted with five colors—the blue, the white, the yellow, the green, the red. What is more, the five colors have their own meaning and symbol. The blue symbolizes the blue sky; the white stand for the white clouds; the yellow show the ground; the green is the water of rivers and lakes; the red is the space Dharmapala. Except this, there are some folk patterns on the kha-btags.

Surely, there is some etiquette that you should pay attention to it when you accept the kha-btages. You should lower the head and let the offer who is elder tie for you. On the contrary, if you are his elders, you can direct hang on him collar. And the friends, you can accept with the hands. the particular Attention, the kha-btags can not be fell on the ground.

 Of cause, the kha-btages also have a long history. It is said that the origin of the kha-btags is magic and wonderful. There is a  legend that is about a mather and her son. Long long ago, The king and the rich man presented their wealth to the Buddha. But the Buddha did not accepted fortune and felt sad to these people. And there was a poor mother who was with a son. They only had a white shirt, so they tore it to some strips and seamed to a cassock. There was no the transportation what was like today. If you are in shanghai, and you want to go to Tibet, you can get the train begin the Shanghai to Tibet travel. Even if you wanted to start your Tibet travel from Nepal, there also have the train. It is convenient so much.

   And then, the mother and her son walked seven days to present to the Buddha. The Buddha was moved and said, “This is the best gift that I have never received”

The moving legend, the special meaning, the beautiful emotion what is the small part of the kha-btags. And although it has its price, the emotion is invaluable. Just like the song about the kha-btags—You are the prairie dancing white clouds; you are the light smog what is from the heaven; you are compatriots devout bless; you are the snow lotus what is in full bloom of snow mountain; you are the opened petals in the heart; you link the friendship and love; you are the desire of the national unity.

The sixteen taboos of travelling to Tibet

When you travel to Tibet, you should pay attention to the taboos in Tibet. The followings are sixteen taboos of travelling to Tibet.

1、 Your hand can't take on each other's shoulders, when The friends who reunite after a long separation greet each other or chat.

2、 You can not stride or tread on the people's clothes, also can not put your clothing on other people's clothes, and what is more, you can not stride from the people’s body.

3、 Women's clothes, especially trousers and knickers can't air dry in the place where everyone go by.

4、 Can not whistle or crying loudly in the house.

5、 Can't sweep the floor or take out the garbage when the family members go out of town, the guest just went out, the noon and after the sun down or the Tibetan New Year t  he first day.

6、 The stranger can not refer to a deceased person in front of the relatives whose kinsfolk was deceased.

7、 The thing what should be completed in this year can't delay to the next year, such as twisting yarn, knitting a sweater or carpet, etc.　　

8、 At sunset, do not go to the people’s home, especially the family that will have a delivery of pregnant women and the puerperal women or the patient who have the serious illness, and more than anything else, the strangers can not go.

9、 After the noon, can't take out any property of the home.

10、 A stranger can not hubbub when you get to the mountains where you've never been to.

11、 Can not stride or tread on the appliance, the boiler, the bowl etc that is used for eating.

12、 If there are two people both in the home will go out at the same time, and go out in the opposite direction, do not go out of the house at the same time, you must go out separately at the different time.

13、 Women can't comb the hair and have a shampoo, also can't go out with leaving her hair loose.

14、 When you are using the broom and dustpan, can not directly transfer with the hand. But you must put on the ground at first, and then another man picked up from the ground.

15、 When the relatives and the friends come to your house and visit you, there are will get some ghee tea or barley wine etc as a gift to you. When the departure, the guest get the things out, but not all of it, it must leave a bit inside or change a little things what are from yours to put in.

16、 The bowl that has gaps or fissure cannot be used to eat; also can not pour a tea for the guest.

The momentum of the brilliant Tibetan Jinding

The Jinding is a kind of architectural concept, also was named in gold-plating roof by people. Jinding not only plays the role of roof adornment, more important is that also plays the role of the house top tile. And the structure of Jinding is similar with the housing top tile, the top surface is a copper-plated gold of the bucket long tile; the eaves became warped; and the four warped eaves is usually four Ngau Tau which are opened mouth. And in the up of the ridge, there are some religious skulls what are installed, such as the treasure house, the aquarius, the Lie deer and so on. And aslo there are some the incising on the eave, for instance, the dharma wheel, the clouding, the truth, the ephraim bead, the flowers and plants, the bells, the eight auspicious symbols ect.

The bells hang on the place where are down the eaves and between the ridge vase. when there is wind blown, the bells ring spread, particularly melodious pleasant-sounding.

The Jinding is important to China and Tibet travel, and the Jingding in the Tibetan architecture is mainly used for the Tibetan palaces, the temples and the pagodas architecture. Especially the high-level adornment of the building. in the world's architectural art garden, only the Tibetan national architecture has this specially great wonders. Decorate the gold tile roof in the Palaces, temples, pagodas ect, its purpose is to let the main building looked outstanding in group of  palaces and town house buildings. And to make its palaces, temples and pagodas buildings appear more gorgeous, imposing. Extrude the palaces and temples in the different position in people’s senses.

The large Jinding covers an area of more than 200 square meters, about 5 meters high. And the Small about 20 square meters, about two meters high. There are Jingding in the palaces and the temples building, and the area size of the palaces and the temples is an important symbol of the masters who are rich or poor, also have an important symbol of power. because there are clear qualifications provisions and grade system what are for Jinding building.

The origin of the Jinding

The Tibetan Jinding has a long history, the origin to basically has two kinds of legend: the first one, it is invented by the Tibetan people own. The two, it comes from ancient India.And now, with the Tibetan social and economic developing and the continuous improvement of the architectural skill, nearly one thousand years of time since the 10 th century to the 19 th century, there are more than 5000 buddhism and the Boen religion temples in different size what are built in the Tibetan, which the main halls and important palaces are decorated Jinding about 100 seats temples, and the famous palaces, the pagodas with the Jinding is numerous.

And in the more than 100 Jingding that are built in the 10-19 centuries Tibetan, which are the largest, the the best craft, the most luxurious modelling, and is representative are the jokhang temple, the potala palace, sakya monastery, drepung, sera monastery, gandan monasteries, The norbulingka golden quite chapter, the Xigaze Tashilhunpo,  The anduo pull chapter tashi, Qinghai tear temple, Kang area litany temple, Ganzi temple, Ganzidaji temple, Jitangdansongzanlin temple. Some of the most famouse pagoda Jinding are Tibet AngRenXian town’s Riwujijin tower and the Jiangzi town’s Baiju tower ect.