This collection is constituted of the rich and varied traditions found in the Amdo cultural region, one of three major Tibetan cultural regions. The Amdo (a mdo) part of the greater Tibetan cultural region is an area roughly the size of France in the northeastern portion of the Tibetan Plateau and is characterized by a shared language and a distinctive social structure and religious culture. This region is demarcated most importantly by a shared language, which is mutually unintelligible to people from Kham (khams) and Central Tibet. Even within Amdo there is a great variation of dialects, but in general Amdo Tibetans can communicate with one another. Amdo's social structure is defined most importantly by the basic community units of tsowa (tsho ba), which consist of groups of families (only rarely of a single clan) that share a responsibility to support each other on important social occasions such as marriage and funerals. Amdo's religious culture is characterized by a remarkable lack of conflict between the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, which have co-existed without any recorded armed conflict in this region.
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Tibetan & Himalayan Library21 min 15 sec28 Sep 2012 -
Gangri Pumo ...25 min 42 sec17 Jun 2013 -
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Gangri Pumo ...9 min 59 sec16 Jun 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...26 min 26 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...31 min 59 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...34 min 15 sec21 May 2013 -
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Gangri Pumo ...29 min 42 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...30 min 14 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...25 min 50 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...34 min 31 sec21 May 2013 -
Gangri Pumo ...31 min 44 sec21 May 2013
