Opportunities for the development of Tibetan traditional culture

As masters of the new era, people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have inherited, developed and shared Tibetan traditional culture, created modern civilized life and cultural undertakings, and made Tibetan culture flourish and develop unprecedentedly. The fact of Tibetan cultural protection proves that the so-called "Tibetan cultural extinction" theory has no factual basis at all. With the increasing comprehensive strength of China, the state will continue to strengthen the protection and development of Tibetan culture. With the economic development and social progress in Tibet, Tibetan culture will have a broader development prospect in the process of protecting Tibetan culture and ecological environment and building a harmonious Tibet.

Since the peaceful liberation of Tibet, especially since the reform and opening up, the Central People's Government and the People's Government of Xizang Autonomous Region, while promoting Tibet's economic and social development, have invested huge manpower, financial resources and material resources, used various legal, economic and administrative means to protect and carry forward Tibet's excellent traditional culture, and made great efforts to create and develop modern science, culture and education.

Cultural relics and historic sites in Tibet have been effectively protected. Since the founding of Xizang Autonomous Region, the Central People's Government and the Xizang Autonomous Region Municipal Government have invested heavily in repairing and opening more than 400 temples in/kloc-0. Since 2002, the three major cultural relics maintenance projects in Tibet include Potala Palace, Norbulingka and Sakya Temple, with a total investment of 330 million yuan, all of which were allocated by the state finance, creating the largest cultural relics maintenance project record in Tibetan history. Since 2006, the Central People's Government has decided to invest 570 million yuan to maintain 22 key cultural relics protection projects in Tibet. On April 18, 2008, the launching ceremony of the key cultural relics protection project in Tibet during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and the protection and maintenance project of Tashilhunpo Temple was held in Shigatse, which marked the full launch of the largest cultural relics protection project invested and maintained in Tibet.

Traditional customs and habits in Tibet are respected and protected. The Central People's Government and the People's Government of Xizang Autonomous Region pay special attention to respecting and protecting people in Xizang's freedom of religious belief and normal religious activities. At present, there are more than 46,000 monks and nuns in Tibet, and various religious activities are held normally. Every year, there are more than one million Tibetan religious believers who go to Lhasa to worship Buddha. Since 2004, the Central People's Government has officially resumed the educational system of Gesila Jean Bacau, a Tibetan Buddhism. In 2007, the State Bureau of Religious Affairs promulgated the Management Measures for the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibet Branch of the Chinese Buddhist Association is an organization of Tibetan Buddhism sects in Tibet. It has the Tibetan edition of Tibetan Buddhism magazine, 1 Tibetan Buddhist colleges and 1 Tibetan Buddhist scripture printing institute. In order to protect the rights of people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, especially the broad masses of Tibetans, to live and engage in social activities according to traditional customs and habits, Xizang Autonomous Region has designated Tibetan traditional festivals such as "Tibetan New Year" and "Snowdon Festival" as holidays in the autonomous region, and explicitly stipulated that filming, watching celestial burial activities and making noise are not allowed in celestial burial places.

Tibetan language has been widely used in all aspects of social life in Tibet. 1959 since the democratic reform, resolutions and regulations adopted by the people's congress of Xizang Autonomous Region, official documents and announcements issued by people's governments and government departments at all levels in Tibet have been written in both Tibetan and Chinese. In judicial proceedings, Tibetan litigants try cases and legal documents in Tibetan language. Radio and television stations in Tibet have specially opened up the frequencies and channels of Tibetan programs. At the end of 2007, the Tibetan language channel took the lead in realizing 24-hour uninterrupted programming among the national minority language TV channels. There are 14 Tibetan magazines and 10 Tibetan newspapers published in Tibet, and more than 400 Tibetan books have been published since 1989. In addition, Tibetan language learning has also been guaranteed by law. Xizang Autonomous Region's education system has fully implemented the bilingual education system with Tibetan as the main teaching language, and compiled and published Tibetan teaching materials and teaching reference materials for all courses from primary school to high school. Significant progress has been made in the standardization of Tibetan terminology and information technology. Tibetan coding has officially passed Chinese national standards and international standards, and all kinds of Tibetan software are used on computers and networks. By the end of 2007, the total number of netizens in Tibet had reached 654.38+600,000, accounting for 5.8% of Tibet's population.

Tibet's traditional culture, art and intangible cultural heritage have been protected. The Central People's Government and the People's Government of Xizang Autonomous Region have always attached great importance to the inheritance and development of Tibetan culture and art, collected and sorted out folk culture on a large scale, and rescued and excavated many endangered cultural heritages. 1979, a special organization was set up to rescue and sort out the biography of King Gesar, which is known as the "king of world epic". After more than 20 years' efforts, more than 654.38 million copies of Gesar have been compiled and published, with a total print run of more than 4 million copies. At the same time, more than 20 Chinese versions have been published, many of which have been translated into Britain and Japan. By the end of 2007, there were 28 professional art performance groups, 203 cultural centers and stations, 4 public libraries and 2 museums in Tibet, as well as 18 county-level folk art groups and more than 500 amateur performance teams. Large-scale mass cultural activities have been held many times in the whole region. The annual Lhasa Snow Festival, Shigatse Everest Cultural Tourism Festival and Naquqing Horse Racing Festival are constantly innovating and become regional brand cultural festivals. 23 points in 7 categories 15 in Xizang Autonomous Region were selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Among the representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects announced by the Ministry of Culture, Tibet has 3 1 person on the list.

Documents and archives have been properly protected, and a complete historical archive of the era system has been established. Great progress has been made in the collection, collation, publication and research of religious classics. The scriptures and Buddhist scriptures collected in Potala Palace, Norbulingka and Sakya Temple have been well protected. After 1990, the Tibetan version of Tanjur (Comparative Edition) and the Tibetan version of A Comparative Catalogue of Tibetan Classics were successively compiled and published, and Tibetan Buddhist classics such as rituals, biographies and treatises were also published for temples to meet the learning needs of monks and nuns and religious believers. In February, 2006, the compilation project of China's first punctuated Buddhist sutra Tripitaka was officially started. Since 2007, Xizang Autonomous Region began to conduct a comprehensive investigation and collation of Bayeux Sutra. At present, there are 426 Sanskrit Bayeux Scriptures registered in Tibet, with more than 4,300 * *.

Great progress has been made in Tibetan studies. In the early days of the founding of New China, the state attached importance to the study of Tibetan society, history and culture. From 1956 to 1958, the national social and historical survey of ethnic minorities includes the investigation and study of Tibetan society. After the reform and opening up, a number of specialized Tibetan studies institutions have been established in China, and Tibetan studies have made a breakthrough. At present, nearly 3,000 people from nearly 50 institutions in China are engaged in Tibetan studies, covering politics, economy, history, literature and art, religion, philosophy, language, geography, education, archaeology, folklore, Tibetan medicine, astronomical calendar and ecological protection, sustainable economic development, agriculture, animal husbandry and other social and natural sciences. In 2006, China awarded the first national prize in the field of Tibetan studies-"Everest Award" for the first time, which marked that Tibetan studies in China entered a new stage of development.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway was completed and opened to traffic in 2006, which effectively promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between Tibet and other parts of the motherland and promoted the social and economic development of Tibet. With a large number of tourists traveling in Tibet by train, some famous cultural relics are under great pressure, which further urges governments at all levels in Tibet to pay more attention to, protect and develop the unique local ecological environment and national culture. The government of the autonomous region and relevant departments should strictly control the number of visitors, carefully design the tour route, and scientifically and rationally divert the flow of visitors to alleviate the bearing pressure of these precious and fragile cultural relics. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway enables people in Xizang to understand external information and culture through tourism, and to carry forward its own culture on the basis of inheriting national culture. At the same time, it also attracts more and more overseas people to actively participate in the protection of Tibetan culture.