I’m so glad to have found your channel, a voice of logic and common sense, and more importantly a genuine appreciation for both the differences among peoples/cultures and our shared humanity.
As a 19 year old who can't travel but does extensive research on Asian cultures such as Tibetan, videos like these help me out a lot with learning about Tibetan Buddhism, architecture and customs. Not to mention I can imagine myself walking through the monastery thanks to the gopro footage. Thank you for posting these videos!
I'm learning a lot both from your videos and the comments. When it comes to China, in the West we can hear people talk about China, but we never get a chance to hear voices FROM China instead. Infact it's so refreshing and inspirational to get in touch with all of you for me -Daniel, the CGTN crew, as well as the people commenting underneath.
Aetius Flavius This is the video that he edited. This is the Communist party's distortion of Tibet. For the sake of money. It's the communist party's job.
@@user-vy7vn7kf9x "The uploader of this video must have been bought by the 「CCP」. The real Tibet shouldn't be like this. The low living standard of the people is the real situation in Tibet." Ah, what a familiar remark!
I also visited Tashilhunpo Monastery last year. Very beautiful and spectacular Tibetan Buddhist temple. We should respect and protect the unique culture of all ethnic groups in China.
Wow, what a spectacular view of the Buddha (at the face level), seems to have a 3D effect. There are so many interesting things to see and stories to hear. Thanks for sharing the experience. Those staircases are the steepest ones I've ever seen. Don't think I could make it to the top floor. Going down them is even more scary :)
Thanks for sharing this with us, wonderful photography and history. I have never been to Tibet but China has many beautiful Buddhist temples and I always enjoyed the scale and grandeur of the temples and statuary.
Daniel's channel deserves to reach 1M subscribers within this year. It is not about green screens + empty rhetoric. It shows you the real China and the cultures in China.
Sadly, many people still watch and subscribe to those "green screen + empty rhetoric" RUclipsrs and believe their words, because they cater to a specific audience on RUclips.
Dear audience Remember this is just a video !!! A content they made attempting to show you,what they want to show and not the truth!!If you go and educate yourself more on Tibet’s issue,you will find the truth they are hiding in this video!! Tibetans in Tibet have been suffering under China on every grounds!!From basic human rights to culture exploitation,environmental degradation,restricted religious freedom,maltreatment in custody, 3rd degree torture and abuses,the list never ends!!
@@tenzindolkar1039 Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where 95% of the population were slaves and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel. After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity. Source: _List of universities and colleges in Tibet_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet Source: _List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
@@Shenzhou. @神州 Shenzhou My Tibetan ancestors have never told me they were slaves or slaves masters,, infact they were a farmers living happily life before the illegal occupation of CCP.... So in which category I come in u tel 95% of slaves or 5% of the masters...u fool👎 CCP have successfully manipulated thr people but will always fail to manipulate other countries 🙏
For your kind information sir Tibet is not apart of china. China captured Tibet at 1950 legally it’s on 1959. I guess you should learn history, ohh sorry I guess Chinese govt prohibited google for hide inside information but if you do use google then just check the real history
Thanks for the privilege and honour to see such an amazing video of the temple - such a memorable video showing the rich heritage and culture of the Tibetan people. Great job. 👍👍👍
Thank you very much for this video. Was at this monastery last year and was brought to tears standing at the very entrance. Wonderful memories! I've subscribed.
Thank you, And with so many great footages and the rebuilding efforts is real unless it is a studio LOL. The Maitreya Buddha statue is amazing and one of the cameraman took the opportunity to pray.
I came across your video accidentally and showed it to my mom. She enjoyed it thoroughly and doesn't get enough of watching any videos on Tibet especially temples.
I realy like everything I've been watching in these videos about Tibet, nice views,places,bildings etcc. fantastic job. By the way that Chinese girl translator is so sweet and so hottttt that I can feel the heat here in the old continent.
In my younger days 20 years ago I believe I visited that temple, and was very impressed by it. Glad to be able to revisit it through your video. Thanks!
Daniel, this video is really good great job, I really hope you can turn this into a tv series at CGTN and cover south western China. Regarding Buddhism, it actually originated from India and made its way into Tibet, China, North America in a different form/ Native Indians and also all the way down to South America also in a different form/ Aztecs. The religion of all the groups of different people is just in a different form. The DNA of Eskimos, Native Americans/ aboriginals, Aztecs, South Americans, Metizos all share a bit of the same DNA of the Mongol/ Chinese. And everyone, the female in the show, interpreting is Jing Jing Li, she’s done a few projects for CGTN already.. thanks for making the video and cheers from Vancouver
@@MeowmeowMia Buddhism is from the ancient India, but ancient India is located near today's Nepal, it is not as same as today's India. (天竺 not 印度, in Chinese, ancient India has a different name from today's India).
Man, all that ‘Free Tibet’ propaganda back in the 90s. I watched Martin Scorsese’s ‘Kundun’ when I was a kid (though I didn’t understand much of it then) and I think Bernardo Bertolucci also made a Tibetan Buddhist movie starring Keanu Reeves. Had no idea the Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA’s payroll. Thank you for making these very important videos.
Free Tibet is not a propaganda. It is a plea from millions of helpless Tibetan people to the rest of the world to free our country TIBET from CCP. You should know the source of this video to comment on Tibet and its journey towards free country. He is Pro-China, no truth comes out of such people. And the irony here is, this vlog is Chinese Propaganda. Till now no vlogger or tourist are allowed to shoot inside Potala Palace, why him? why? Ask your self this question and you will get an answer. But if you are blinded by CCP ideology then only GOD can help you. If you are interested, there are many other genuine sources to know the real history (Just in case). N ya sorry to break it you but FREE TIBET is still going strong and it will continue till we get what is ours (TIBET) and justice. Truth will prevail!
@@tenzinchoezom7996 Just let peace prevail in Tibet. Confucius, Buddha & Lao Tzu tasted suffering without exception Tibetian & Chinese too have fair share of sufferings If China dont rule who else. British, American and the French, cant imagine what would happen. Look at the world now.
@@tenzinchoezom7996 FREE US/AU/CA/NZ and PAY AFRICA is your essential task now by your logic. Millions of helpless native indigenous were killed or slaved by your masters. Historical facts. Yet you shameless hypocrites are here to make up stories about China. You are a bit too desperate to show you agenda already, don't you think?
@@tenzinchoezom7996 Did you know that the *14th Dalai Lama is a CIA agent* and a traitor to his people? The 14th Dalai Lama received funding from CIA to train Tibetan guerrillas in separatist activities against the Central People's Government (Beijing). Declassified CIA files have exposed that a total of *1,735,000 dollars* was devoted to the Tibetan program for FY1964 -Tibetan resistance efforts in Nepal (US$500,000) -Tibet Houses in New York and Geneva (1/2 year) (US$75,000) -Training (US$855,000) -Subsidy to the Dalai Lama (US$180,000) -Miscellaneous costs (US$125,000) Source: _CIA Tibetan program_ wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program#Costs So here we have concrete evidence that the 14th Dalai Lama received funding from the USA to engage in separatist activities against the Central People's Government.
there is 3 big buddhism teaching as i know for today world. mahayana (mostly China, Hongkong, Taiwan and SEA, tantrayana (tibet, nepal, bhutan and India), theravada (Srilanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Kamboja). their teaching is same just their practise is different. Mahayana focus on chanting and writing sutra (scripture), Theravadas focus on meditation, Tantrayana ritual and ceremonies also mixed with meditation
In Tibetan Buddhism, the devote spin those "prayer tops" and perform full-body kowtow on the ground (prostrating completely horizontal) which are absent from most other Buddhism schools located elsewhere.
Hey Daniel. Do you have the youtube channels of the other youtubers in the other 2 teams? I'll like to watch their content for this series too. Thanks.
@@user-pg7ny5uh3i I know he cooperated with CGTN that's why I'm asking. Did a quick check on CGTN's youtube channel and only found sort clips. Didn't even find any short videos of the other two youtubers to try and determine their channel. So its not that easy.
Thanks for keeping it real. Once I defended China when discussing it with a Russian Jew from the Soviet Georgia, that all of China suffered from the Culture Revolution, not just the Tibetans. I remember what she said to this date, "but they did not have to." Tibetans are a different people with a different language and culture, they should have the right of self-determination, they might not be interested in the empire building business especially when it comes to communist salvation. The fact that they took money from whoever supported their cause, including the CIA, is just a side note.
They didn't have to? Did other Chinese have to? The fact was that the majority of both Tibetan people and other Chinese people chose the PRC because they thought communist is going to lead them with better life. No one is a prophet that knows what's going to happen in the future, but at least at that time they thought the PRC was their best option because PRC did actually librated the slaves. Then the PRC made huge mistakes such as the culture revolution and all of people suffered. There is no such thing as a group of people didn't have to suffer but the other group deserve to suffer. NO one deserves to suffer. That was the political mistake the PRC made and fully admitted and well documented in textbooks. PRC didn't deny it. They corrected their mistakes and seeked to improve, and had improved so far. I'm not trying to blur out the CCP's wrong doings in the history as the party itself admitted it and learnt from the mistakes. However, saying “Tibetans didn't have to” clearly implies the subconcious discrimination of your Georgian friend has towards the Chinese people and Chinese culture. This is a typical biased western view which didn't based on historical facts. Probably in his view, the CCP forcefully tookover Tibet, and that is why when the CCP made a mistake, the Chinese deserved the consequences, but the Tibetans are the innocent collateral damages. However, based on history, the Dalai La Ma at the begining was very supportive of Mao, and wanted to build a communist society for Tibet. Politically, Tibet has been in the Chinese central government's control since Qing dynasty, and passed on to the RC and then PRC.
I find it interesting the dalai lama and the panchen Lama disliked each other and even waged war against each other. Pre 1950 tibet is filled with interesting conflicts that doesnt get covered very much
Religious leaders in a theocracy are politicians as well. Naturally conflicts rise from time to time since they represent different regions/classes/interest groups. Same thing for Christianity.
Life was very tough in Tibet when they need to support 20% of the population doing no production working. 80% of the land was owned by nobles and lamas. They supported Mao's land reform but the nobles and high ranking monks rebelled. Today, lamas were painted as pure and innocent but they were evils back then. They used young monks as their personal slaves and sometimes sex slaves. They used some very crucial punishments such as cut the hands or eyes. Old Tibet was never a peaceful place people believed to be.
Yes, being a Buddhist monk in Tibet literally meant that you did no production working and it was up to the rest of Tibetans slaves to feed you. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
What I learned from documents that in 1940s. Only 5% of tibeten were high ranks (lamas, nobles and officeials), and they owned 100% land of Tibet. The other 95% worked for high ranks.
@Zidon Wangyal Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where *95% of the population were slaves* and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel. After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity. Source: _List of universities and colleges in Tibet_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet Source: _List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
Did you know that the *14th Dalai Lama is a CIA agent* and a traitor to his people? The 14th Dalai Lama received funding from CIA to train Tibetan guerrillas in separatist activities against the Central People's Government (Beijing). Declassified CIA files have exposed that a total of *1,735,000 dollars* was devoted to the Tibetan program for FY1964 -Tibetan resistance efforts in Nepal (US$500,000) -Tibet Houses in New York and Geneva (1/2 year) (US$75,000) -Training (US$855,000) -Subsidy to the Dalai Lama (US$180,000) -Miscellaneous costs (US$125,000) Source: _CIA Tibetan program_ wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program#Costs So here we have concrete evidence that the 14th Dalai Lama received funding from the USA to engage in separatist activities against the Central People's Government.
@@Shenzhou. Although I dont give a shit about lama or any other religious cult, I suggest you dont do this cuz no matter your info is ture or no, it is very intrusive, and your info will do little cuz ppl only believe what they want to believe. For those who hate China, they will not buy your info. For those who respect China, they will think Chinese ppl are rude and pushy. Either way, its backfire. So we just show them the ture side of Tibet, those who are interested will find an answer themselves. You can not fight with the western propoganda on a western platform, so dont get trapped into their way of thinking and doing things.
@@leoyoung6689 _"For those who hate China, they will not buy your info. For those who respect China, they will think Chinese people are rude and pushy."_ I thought that by arguing logically and citing sources where possible, I can help China-haters gain a different perspective on our country. And why would people who respect China think me pushy and rude? I did not use any impolite language in my comment.
@@qso65 It's your own personal choice not to involve yourself in politics. However, not being involved in politics, doesn't necessarily mean that politics won't involve you. It's always there in the background after all.
Qomolangma from Tibet side or Sagarmatha from Nepal side. I believe the locals prefer the name they have been using for thousand years than the name after English man George Everest, an insulting name enforced to their holy mountain tbh.
I've seen some overseas Tibetans on RUclips referring to Mount _Qomolangma_ (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰) by its Western name, *Mount Everest,* yet the same people complain about the Chinese not preserving Tibetan culture.
Unlike SAKIAMUNI , he chosen to be a buddha rather than to be a warlord, who gave us the teaching of Buddha today. Dalai Lama chosen to be a tibetan king rather than a buddha.
This the problem of your always go after His Holiness it show that how much CCP is afraid of Our Kundhun, 🙏 His holiness is our god , savior always on path of ahimsa and compassionate, you won’t understand that because you didn’t deserve it. I laugh at you
Isn't it refreshing to know that you could casually spell the words "culture revolution", "dalai lama", and the damage of the "culture revolution" in Tibet?
Daniel, great video as usual, hope you are having a swell time in Tibet. To chime in a bit about the 11th Panchen from my own reading and research. In Qing dynasty the "Golden" Urn" ceremony was used to select the next Panchen/Dalai. This meant the high ranking Lamas would generate a list of candidates through religious/divination ceremonies, and under the supervision of the Qing court, draw 1 of their names from a golden urn as the final choice. This ensured that both sides are satisfied with the result. For the 11th Panchen Chinese government wanted to follow this process, so a search committee was set up which mostly comprised of high ranking Lamas. The leader of that committee was Chadrel Rinpoche. He was given permission from the government to contact the 14th Dalai for the purpose of selecting the 11th Panchen, so that the candidate can be recognized by both sides. But in the midst it, he and Dalai performed their own divination ceremonies outside of the agreed framework, and Dalai unilaterally announced his choice for the 11th Panchen. This royally pissed off the government, so they refused to recognize Dalai's selection and went ahead with the Golden Urn ceremony anyways, which generated the officially recognized 11th Panchen. Rinpoche was later arrested for separatism.
It’s an interesting view on Tibetan politics because in WW2 the allied forces pulled their resources together to resist Germany, yet no one would say that the Dutch for example were on the payroll of America. What happened in Tibet was very unfair to the traditional owners of that land. Of course the assistance from America was accepted. Not many other countries helped. I pay my respect to the traditional owners of Tibet and acknowledge that the land was never ceded (forced doesn’t count). Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it.
Tibetan monasteries have been struck by fire before previously. Source: _Sacred Tibetan monastery in Lhasa hit by fire_ bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43101743
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I’m so glad to have found your channel, a voice of logic and common sense, and more importantly a genuine appreciation for both the differences among peoples/cultures and our shared humanity.
thank you so much for being so respectful and bring such valuable insight into real Tibetan culture, history, art, and people to the rest of the world
Amazing tour. Thanks for bringing us to places that most people will probably never get to visit.
Agreed
As a 19 year old who can't travel but does extensive research on Asian cultures such as Tibetan, videos like these help me out a lot with learning about Tibetan Buddhism, architecture and customs. Not to mention I can imagine myself walking through the monastery thanks to the gopro footage. Thank you for posting these videos!
Thank you bring us along with your trips
The color is just amazing.
Agreed totally. The reddish earthen colors.
Red and gold make a pleasing combination to the eyes
I'm learning a lot both from your videos and the comments. When it comes to China, in the West we can hear people talk about China, but we never get a chance to hear voices FROM China instead. Infact it's so refreshing and inspirational to get in touch with all of you for me -Daniel, the CGTN crew, as well as the people commenting underneath.
Aetius Flavius This is the video that he edited.
This is the Communist party's distortion of Tibet.
For the sake of money. It's the communist party's job.
Tara CL It’s sad that you guys are turning a deaf ear and blind eye when the locals telling and showing their voices and opinions.
@@user-vy7vn7kf9x "The uploader of this video must have been bought by the 「CCP」. The real Tibet shouldn't be like this. The low living standard of the people is the real situation in Tibet." Ah, what a familiar remark!
Another great video. Thank you from Malaysia again.
Thank you so much. I think I learned a lot from this series of videos. Great
Oh wow this is exclusive.
Dan, you are very lucky to see the details of the temple and a workout on the stairs. Very good video Daniel!
Gorgeous place.
Enjoyed your vlog.
Peace.
I also visited Tashilhunpo Monastery last year. Very beautiful and spectacular Tibetan Buddhist temple. We should respect and protect the unique culture of all ethnic groups in China.
Wow, what a spectacular view of the Buddha (at the face level), seems to have a 3D effect. There are so many interesting things to see and stories to hear. Thanks for sharing the experience. Those staircases are the steepest ones I've ever seen. Don't think I could make it to the top floor. Going down them is even more scary :)
Thanks for sharing this with us, wonderful photography and history. I have never been to Tibet but China has many beautiful Buddhist temples and I always enjoyed the scale and grandeur of the temples and statuary.
Your contents are freaking good. I love evry second of it... ❤️
Daniel's channel deserves to reach 1M subscribers within this year. It is not about green screens + empty rhetoric. It shows you the real China and the cultures in China.
Sadly, many people still watch and subscribe to those "green screen + empty rhetoric" RUclipsrs and believe their words, because they cater to a specific audience on RUclips.
Dear audience Remember this is just a video !!! A content they made attempting to show you,what they want to show and not the truth!!If you go and educate yourself more on Tibet’s issue,you will find the truth they are hiding in this video!! Tibetans in Tibet have been suffering under China on every grounds!!From basic human rights to culture exploitation,environmental degradation,restricted religious freedom,maltreatment in custody, 3rd degree torture and abuses,the list never ends!!
@@tenzindolkar1039 Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where 95% of the population were slaves and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity.
Source: _List of universities and colleges in Tibet_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet
Source: _List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region
Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
@@Shenzhou. @神州 Shenzhou My Tibetan ancestors have never told me they were slaves or slaves masters,, infact they were a farmers living happily life before the illegal occupation of CCP.... So in which category I come in u tel 95% of slaves or 5% of the masters...u fool👎 CCP have successfully manipulated thr people but will always fail to manipulate other countries 🙏
For your kind information sir Tibet is not apart of china. China captured Tibet at 1950 legally it’s on 1959. I guess you should learn history, ohh sorry I guess Chinese govt prohibited google for hide inside information but if you do use google then just check the real history
Thanks for the privilege and honour to see such an amazing video of the temple - such a memorable video showing the rich heritage and culture of the Tibetan people. Great job. 👍👍👍
Fascinating!! Absolutely fascinating!! Thanks for this program!!
Truly beautiful.
Thank you for sharing.
Your camera is very stable.
Thanks you for sharing.
It is beautiful.
Thank you very much for this video. Was at this monastery last year and was brought to tears standing at the very entrance. Wonderful memories! I've subscribed.
Great Journey and Vlog.
What's next, after Tibet? Xinjiang?
Thanks you for sharing. It is beautiful. 👍👍👍
Very very good. THANKS.
Great show!! This video content blows my mind!! I am deeply enjoy it, and also learning quite a bit. It is educational and fun to watch. Well done!!
I have learnt so much from yet another great video, well done Daniel!
So interesting. Fantastic and exclusive tour
That what I call a grand tour.
Thank you, And with so many great footages and the rebuilding efforts is real unless it is a studio LOL. The Maitreya Buddha statue is amazing and one of the cameraman took the opportunity to pray.
Thank you Dan, for touring us old Tashi Lhunpo. Love from Nepal.
I came across your video accidentally and showed it to my mom. She enjoyed it thoroughly and doesn't get enough of watching any videos on Tibet especially temples.
I realy like everything I've been watching in these videos about Tibet, nice views,places,bildings etcc. fantastic job. By the way that Chinese girl translator is so sweet and so hottttt that I can feel the heat here in the old continent.
She's a journalist for CGTN and a content creator.
Search for Li Jingjing
Thank you!
Wow! The Buddha is magnificent! Thank you Daniel for bringing us here.
This is one of my favorite temple, well done
Great video! It was also by chance uploaded on the day of my 40th birthday.
Tibetan people are very nice people. Daniel, your Chinese is so good!!!
Thanks, Dan. very good video!
Thank you for the great video!
it's too difficult to translate these Buddhism words.
玄奘法师和他的弟子，共翻译了1331卷 梵文佛经。
Daniel, thank you for your video again. Love to go back to Tibet soon. I'm stuck in Australia by COVID-19 :(
Thanks for these videos. I will visit Tibet on my next vacation.
Fabulous travelogue, so unique!
In my younger days 20 years ago I believe I visited that temple, and was very impressed by it. Glad to be able to revisit it through your video. Thanks!
The hand gesture is called MUDRA, this Metrya gesture is known as Vitarka mudra (Discussion of Dhamma)
Another great video
This monk is so good that he can speak English so well after only two months of learning it.
Daniel, this video is really good great job, I really hope you can turn this into a tv series at CGTN and cover south western China. Regarding Buddhism, it actually originated from India and made its way into Tibet, China, North America in a different form/ Native Indians and also all the way down to South America also in a different form/ Aztecs. The religion of all the groups of different people is just in a different form. The DNA of Eskimos, Native Americans/ aboriginals, Aztecs, South Americans, Metizos all share a bit of the same DNA of the Mongol/ Chinese. And everyone, the female in the show, interpreting is Jing Jing Li, she’s done a few projects for CGTN already.. thanks for making the video and cheers from Vancouver
Lol, seriously? Buddhism is from Nepal.
I think this vlog follows the production of CGTN documentary. Daniel is one of the guests invited to the project.
@@MeowmeowMia Buddhism is from the ancient India, but ancient India is located near today's Nepal, it is not as same as today's India. (天竺 not 印度, in Chinese, ancient India has a different name from today's India).
非常棒，感谢讲的这么详细
This is really a treat to watch. Really excellent
Thanks for sharing these ❤👍👍👍
Man, all that ‘Free Tibet’ propaganda back in the 90s.
I watched Martin Scorsese’s ‘Kundun’ when I was a kid (though I didn’t understand much of it then) and I think Bernardo Bertolucci also made a Tibetan Buddhist movie starring Keanu Reeves.
Had no idea the Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA’s payroll.
Thank you for making these very important videos.
Free Tibet is not a propaganda. It is a plea from millions of helpless Tibetan people to the rest of the world to free our country TIBET from CCP. You should know the source of this video to comment on Tibet and its journey towards free country.
He is Pro-China, no truth comes out of such people. And the irony here is, this vlog is Chinese Propaganda. Till now no vlogger or tourist are allowed to shoot inside Potala Palace, why him? why? Ask your self this question and you will get an answer. But if you are blinded by CCP ideology then only GOD can help you.
If you are interested, there are many other genuine sources to know the real history (Just in case).
N ya sorry to break it you but FREE TIBET is still going strong and it will continue till we get what is ours (TIBET) and justice. Truth will prevail!
@@tenzinchoezom7996 Just let peace prevail in Tibet. Confucius, Buddha & Lao Tzu tasted suffering without exception Tibetian & Chinese too have fair share of sufferings
If China dont rule who else. British, American and the French, cant imagine what would happen. Look at the world now.
@@tenzinchoezom7996
Id think tibetans have better lives under Chinese rule
Then some half naked monk who waste time
Praying instead of improving life
@@tenzinchoezom7996 FREE US/AU/CA/NZ and PAY AFRICA is your essential task now by your logic. Millions of helpless native
indigenous were killed or slaved by your masters. Historical facts. Yet you shameless hypocrites are here to make up stories about China. You are a bit too desperate to show you agenda already, don't you think?
@@tenzinchoezom7996 Did you know that the *14th Dalai Lama is a CIA agent* and a traitor to his people? The 14th Dalai Lama received funding from CIA to train Tibetan guerrillas in separatist activities against the Central People's Government (Beijing). Declassified CIA files have exposed that a total of *1,735,000 dollars* was devoted to the Tibetan program for FY1964
-Tibetan resistance efforts in Nepal (US$500,000)
-Tibet Houses in New York and Geneva (1/2 year) (US$75,000)
-Training (US$855,000)
-Subsidy to the Dalai Lama (US$180,000)
-Miscellaneous costs (US$125,000)
Source: _CIA Tibetan program_ wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program#Costs
So here we have concrete evidence that the 14th Dalai Lama received funding from the USA to engage in separatist activities against the Central People's Government.
Tibetan Buddhism is quite different from the Buddhism that we Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese adhere to....
Yeah, they belong to different schools of Buddhism.
there is 3 big buddhism teaching as i know for today world. mahayana (mostly China, Hongkong, Taiwan and SEA, tantrayana (tibet, nepal, bhutan and India), theravada (Srilanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Kamboja). their teaching is same just their practise is different. Mahayana focus on chanting and writing sutra (scripture), Theravadas focus on meditation, Tantrayana ritual and ceremonies also mixed with meditation
Tibetan Buddhism is mixed so much with tibet native bonism,so many different cultures,in fact not like the buddism original
In Tibetan Buddhism, the devote spin those "prayer tops" and perform full-body kowtow on the ground (prostrating completely horizontal) which are absent from most other Buddhism schools located elsewhere.
佛教有 藏传佛教 本土教 汉传佛教 马来和新加坡属于汉传佛教
Daniel 多谢分享这频道！我也來过Tashihunpo Monastery, 但沒有到最高佛面那層，多谢你的video可令我大开眼介！
Good Job and Support !
Outside of China, no body knows that Tibet were double leaders.
I love what Daniel said about the Lama's: They're basically god so rules don't apply, they can change that whenever....
in old day, there's three,
Very interesting. Maybe they could explain the differences and similarities between the two.
@@yuyongbin Who was another one? I know there were other two religious leaders, but they controlled Mongolia areas not Tibet.
@金英文二世 The Janggya Lama have serach the new reincarnation now
I know this is supposed to be a religious travel video, but that translator girl is pretty hot.
A reporter of CGTN.
@无忌唯一_nothing but all OK Just make it clear she is not a translator.
@无忌唯一_nothing but all OK 杠精的气息
What's her name,
Haha. She is the host and reporter of CGTN.
Amazing
Lovely !!!👏❤🌈
Amazing. I’ve been to some temples in other cities of China, but the ones in Tibet is just amazing.
历朝历代，班禅多与中央一致，而达赖则多是离心离德。当前情况也是。
@Xiaoyao Aben 哈哈，确实
@Xiaoyao Aben 只要是沙俄和英属印度拉拢而已
13世以前的达赖，大部分还是挺好的；从13世开始就不行了，亲近英印、叛逆中央、谋求独立。13世达赖始终寻求脱离中国，竭力抵制中央政府的代表、官员和军队进藏，使西藏在民国时期处于“半独立”状态，并影响了西藏一大批上层贵族高官、以及后来的14世达赖，埋下了1959年西藏暴乱的种子。
@@devinwang6584 ramifications of western countries' interference, such as Britain, Russia, and US.
Thanks lot bro... 🙏🙏🙏🙏
thank you ! you guide is really cute
Hey Daniel. Do you have the youtube channels of the other youtubers in the other 2 teams? I'll like to watch their content for this series too. Thanks.
You could check out CGTN channel to find other contents
Daniel cooperated with CGTN team in this Tibet journey
@@user-pg7ny5uh3i I know he cooperated with CGTN that's why I'm asking. Did a quick check on CGTN's youtube channel and only found sort clips. Didn't even find any short videos of the other two youtubers to try and determine their channel. So its not that easy.
no wonder. the team was much bigger at the airport
@@user-pg7ny5uh3i that's y it's a planned one
Thanks for keeping it real. Once I defended China when discussing it with a Russian Jew from the Soviet Georgia, that all of China suffered from the Culture Revolution, not just the Tibetans. I remember what she said to this date, "but they did not have to."
Tibetans are a different people with a different language and culture, they should have the right of self-determination, they might not be interested in the empire building business especially when it comes to communist salvation. The fact that they took money from whoever supported their cause, including the CIA, is just a side note.
They didn't have to? Did other Chinese have to? The fact was that the majority of both Tibetan people and other Chinese people chose the PRC because they thought communist is going to lead them with better life. No one is a prophet that knows what's going to happen in the future, but at least at that time they thought the PRC was their best option because PRC did actually librated the slaves. Then the PRC made huge mistakes such as the culture revolution and all of people suffered. There is no such thing as a group of people didn't have to suffer but the other group deserve to suffer. NO one deserves to suffer. That was the political mistake the PRC made and fully admitted and well documented in textbooks. PRC didn't deny it. They corrected their mistakes and seeked to improve, and had improved so far.
I'm not trying to blur out the CCP's wrong doings in the history as the party itself admitted it and learnt from the mistakes. However, saying “Tibetans didn't have to” clearly implies the subconcious discrimination of your Georgian friend has towards the Chinese people and Chinese culture.
This is a typical biased western view which didn't based on historical facts. Probably in his view, the CCP forcefully tookover Tibet, and that is why when the CCP made a mistake, the Chinese deserved the consequences, but the Tibetans are the innocent collateral damages.
However, based on history, the Dalai La Ma at the begining was very supportive of Mao, and wanted to build a communist society for Tibet. Politically, Tibet has been in the Chinese central government's control since Qing dynasty, and passed on to the RC and then PRC.
WOW Daniel you get to film!!! Impressive...and you also get a workout ;-)
Every day better and better. Daniel you should be a jourlalist.
I find it interesting the dalai lama and the panchen Lama disliked each other and even waged war against each other. Pre 1950 tibet is filled with interesting conflicts that doesnt get covered very much
Religious leaders in a theocracy are politicians as well. Naturally conflicts rise from time to time since they represent different regions/classes/interest groups. Same thing for Christianity.
Hey Daniel, why is the Jingjing Li from China's state-run CGTN with you?
If I may ask, who sponsored your trip here?
- A discerning individual
wow, beautiful view
Great tour Daniel.
Life was very tough in Tibet when they need to support 20% of the population doing no production working. 80% of the land was owned by nobles and lamas. They supported Mao's land reform but the nobles and high ranking monks rebelled. Today, lamas were painted as pure and innocent but they were evils back then. They used young monks as their personal slaves and sometimes sex slaves. They used some very crucial punishments such as cut the hands or eyes. Old Tibet was never a peaceful place people believed to be.
Yes, being a Buddhist monk in Tibet literally meant that you did no production working and it was up to the rest of Tibetans slaves to feed you. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning.
There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
What I learned from documents that in 1940s. Only 5% of tibeten were high ranks (lamas, nobles and officeials), and they owned 100% land of Tibet. The other 95% worked for high ranks.
@Zidon Wangyal Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where *95% of the population were slaves* and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called _damaru_ that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity.
Source: _List of universities and colleges in Tibet_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet
Source: _List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region_ wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region
Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
@神州 Shenzhou please stop using ccp, it’s a western nickname to discriminate Chinese. It’s communists party of China, CPC.
@@robertchen4758 I do use CPC sometimes, but the Westerners don't understand, and they continue using CCP instead.
Dalai and Panchen Lama, both belong to Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. There are 4 Schools all together, The oldest one is Nyingma.
Did you know that the *14th Dalai Lama is a CIA agent* and a traitor to his people? The 14th Dalai Lama received funding from CIA to train Tibetan guerrillas in separatist activities against the Central People's Government (Beijing). Declassified CIA files have exposed that a total of *1,735,000 dollars* was devoted to the Tibetan program for FY1964
-Tibetan resistance efforts in Nepal (US$500,000)
-Tibet Houses in New York and Geneva (1/2 year) (US$75,000)
-Training (US$855,000)
-Subsidy to the Dalai Lama (US$180,000)
-Miscellaneous costs (US$125,000)
Source: _CIA Tibetan program_ wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program#Costs
So here we have concrete evidence that the 14th Dalai Lama received funding from the USA to engage in separatist activities against the Central People's Government.
@@Shenzhou. I don't involve myself in politics mate, furthermore, he is not my Guru, anyway.
@@Shenzhou. Although I dont give a shit about lama or any other religious cult, I suggest you dont do this cuz no matter your info is ture or no, it is very intrusive, and your info will do little cuz ppl only believe what they want to believe. For those who hate China, they will not buy your info. For those who respect China, they will think Chinese ppl are rude and pushy. Either way, its backfire. So we just show them the ture side of Tibet, those who are interested will find an answer themselves. You can not fight with the western propoganda on a western platform, so dont get trapped into their way of thinking and doing things.
@@leoyoung6689 _"For those who hate China, they will not buy your info. For those who respect China, they will think Chinese people are rude and pushy."_
I thought that by arguing logically and citing sources where possible, I can help China-haters gain a different perspective on our country. And why would people who respect China think me pushy and rude? I did not use any impolite language in my comment.
@@qso65 It's your own personal choice not to involve yourself in politics. However, not being involved in politics, doesn't necessarily mean that politics won't involve you. It's always there in the background after all.
Great video 👍👍👍
Oh, been there, been there. This part of Shigatse hasn't changed much in the past decade. Are you guys heading for the Mt. Everest base camp?
Qomolangma from Tibet side or Sagarmatha from Nepal side. I believe the locals prefer the name they have been using for thousand years than the name after English man George Everest, an insulting name enforced to their holy mountain tbh.
I've seen some overseas Tibetans on RUclips referring to Mount _Qomolangma_ (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰) by its Western name, *Mount Everest,* yet the same people complain about the Chinese not preserving Tibetan culture.
Gee, the ok sign was initiated by the east.
What a great treat and a little lesson in Buddhism.
The blue color is very interesting. It's dark, and yet, bright.
The evils claw of the cia lingers everywhere,,,your wrap-up in the last five minutes of this video gave me chills to my spine.
Unlike SAKIAMUNI , he chosen to be a buddha rather than to be a warlord, who gave us the teaching of Buddha today. Dalai Lama chosen to be a tibetan king rather than a buddha.
This the problem of your always go after His Holiness it show that how much CCP is afraid of Our Kundhun, 🙏 His holiness is our god , savior always on path of ahimsa and compassionate, you won’t understand that because you didn’t deserve it. I laugh at you
@@kingmadboyka as what you've said , he is god ... Not a buddha. 😂😂😂😂
@@MrForgetme yah actually nope he is above god, u ok now laugh more,
@@kingmadboyka our god, above god. 😂😂😂😂
@@MrForgetme do you even believe in god 🤣
MAN! i wanna go on a trip like this lol
景色真好，离天空太近了。真漂亮。
自從在YT看了過去李敖的節目:西藏神權統治的黑暗面，對這個地方的過去有了不一樣的看法..
神权欣赏欣赏就行了，
世俗化是必须的
After Daniel's superb work, no more free Tibet lies now. I've been living in Wuhan for almost two yrs now. Looking forward to be there once.
12:55 wow have no words to explain how beautiful it is...
Amazing amazing
Isn't it refreshing to know that you could casually spell the words "culture revolution", "dalai lama", and the damage of the "culture revolution" in Tibet?
The "T" in Tashilhünpo should be pronounced a retroflex 知 (J) sound.
Tra扎
shi西
lhün勒特晕
po波
扎西伦布。
渣 希特勒 晕???🤔🤔🤔
Like Russian
旮旯北京 “特”和“勒”是同一个辅音，做“晕”的声母。你可以想象把“勒l”读出“特t”的感觉，然后与韵母ün相拼，就是lhün。写成拼音字母就是Zhaxilhünbo扎什伦布寺。
No need for all that trouble! TashiLhunpo is a Tibetan name, not Mandarin for you to apply retroflex theory and all.
@@FireTiger1986 你这叫花子达兰萨拉的屎吃完没有？
so great
I love my tibet！
Daniel, great video as usual, hope you are having a swell time in Tibet. To chime in a bit about the 11th Panchen from my own reading and research. In Qing dynasty the "Golden" Urn" ceremony was used to select the next Panchen/Dalai. This meant the high ranking Lamas would generate a list of candidates through religious/divination ceremonies, and under the supervision of the Qing court, draw 1 of their names from a golden urn as the final choice. This ensured that both sides are satisfied with the result. For the 11th Panchen Chinese government wanted to follow this process, so a search committee was set up which mostly comprised of high ranking Lamas. The leader of that committee was Chadrel Rinpoche. He was given permission from the government to contact the 14th Dalai for the purpose of selecting the 11th Panchen, so that the candidate can be recognized by both sides. But in the midst it, he and Dalai performed their own divination ceremonies outside of the agreed framework, and Dalai unilaterally announced his choice for the 11th Panchen. This royally pissed off the government, so they refused to recognize Dalai's selection and went ahead with the Golden Urn ceremony anyways, which generated the officially recognized 11th Panchen. Rinpoche was later arrested for separatism.
40:50 正片开始
Peace and love from South East Asia. Fed up with Western media and racism against Chinese. Hope more from Cina
It’s an interesting view on Tibetan politics because in WW2 the allied forces pulled their resources together to resist Germany, yet no one would say that the Dutch for example were on the payroll of America. What happened in Tibet was very unfair to the traditional owners of that land. Of course the assistance from America was accepted. Not many other countries helped. I pay my respect to the traditional owners of Tibet and acknowledge that the land was never ceded (forced doesn’t count). Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it.
that place looks like it could be easily wiped out by a lightning caused fire
the lightning you're familiar with is only in lower troposphere... the building is high up in the mountains
@@Azariven its because it has butter in it, if lightning happens, fire is very fatal
Tibetan monasteries have been struck by fire before previously.
Source: _Sacred Tibetan monastery in Lhasa hit by fire_ bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43101743
31:13 Imaging an African guy hearing this
I really want to go there also
When will there be a high speed train station in Lhasa just like the one in Urumuqi (Xinjiang)?
Just checked, it seems that Tibet has no plans for high-speed rail projects, only plans to build ordinary railways throughout Tibet.
The railway which is in construction right now is Sichuan-Tibet Railway, while the planned railways is Yunnan-Tibet Railway
大家看到弥勒殿里面的“护国利民”了吗
有什么问题吗😂
@@yujicunghvaz3374 没有问题呀，这样才对嘛。