© 2003 by the Archaeological Institute of AmericaĪ/0305/abstracts/guge. The Lost Caves of Tibet - 2/5 Kingdom of Mustang at 16:31. Xiong Lei is a reporter for Beijing-based China Features.
"Having studied the lost kingdom for a decade now, I've mainly discovered that the questions continually raised about Guge have far outnumbered our answers." "What is certain is that findings at Guge so far are only the tip of an iceberg," says another researcher. I visited the region in 2008 as one of my first trekking experiences, setting my own standards right up high. The region reaches far into the vast Tibetan plateau and a spiritual wilderness that’s well worth visiting. Though it was the least studied of the several hundred candidate sites, the experts decided it was of vital importance. One lost Kingdom is Upper Mustang, found beyond the 8000m peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges. Grainy, shaky footage of Tsaparang showed a massive mountaintop fortress with lavishly painted interiors, surrounded by soft clay cliffs peppered with caves. "They only happened to see some scenes of the ruins in a documentary film taken by a crew in the 1950s," says Zhang Jianlin, a research professor with Xi'an Archaeology Institute in Shaanxi, who has worked on the ruins, some twelve hundred miles from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, since the late 1970s. When China's State Council declared Tsaparang one of the country's first official cultural heritage sites in 1961, no expert on the panel that compiled the list had ever been to the former capital of the Guge kingdom in western Tibet. (Note that buying article below does NOT include images.) (Jin Shijzi/ImagineChina)įor more exclusive images, see the May/June 2003 issue of ARCHAEOLOGY. Tsaparang castle, as viewed from one of the hundreds of frescoed caves pockmarking the soft clay hills that surround the 900-foot-high citadel. Part two here carries on that journey, now with the company of a friend, in Langmusi. Part one followed her experiences in Labrang Monastery. Archaeologists are rediscovering the glories of a great Tibetan dynasty, forgoten for centuries. Thirty-nine years ago, a Buddhist monk meditating in a cave on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau found something strange: a human jawbone with giant molars. Lost Cave Temples Of The Himalaya Posted on Augby Dharma Documentaries First of three documentary films exploring the cave temples found in Mustang, turning up long lost paintings and artifacts from the caves, including thousands of manuscripts and ancient burial remains. Hidden Caves of Tibet's Wild West Beyond the Clouds Tibet Last year our Beyond The Clouds team member Becky travelled to Tibet to visit the two most important monasteries in Amdo Labrang and Langmusi.
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