4.9K views · 111 reactions | ལྷག་དཀར་བཟང་། Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts presenting Tibetan Cultural Dance on the birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 2004. | TIBET TV | Facebook

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama grants a private audience to a group of Geshes led by Gyuto monastery earlier today at his official residence, McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, 4 December 2019. Video courtesy: Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama | TIBET TV

༄༅། །དཔལ་ལྡན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་འབུམ་རམས་པ་བློ་བཟང་སེངྒེ་མཆོག་གིས་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་བོད་ཀྱི་ཟློས་གར་ཚོགས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་སྐོར་གསལ་བཤད། President Dr. Lobsang Sangay Clarification on the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) | TIBET TV

With a history spanning over 1,000 years, Batang Xianzi is a beautiful and lyrical combination of Tibetan folk songs and dances. Its home, Batang County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is an important stop along the ancient Tea Horse Road, a trade route through Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in southwest China. It was listed among the first group of China's national intangible heritage items in 2006. 63-year-old inheritor Wang Tashi has been playing and making Xianzi for over 50 years. Over t