连绵不断的雪山冰峰环绕着的西藏高原，是藏民族世世代代繁衍生息的地方，由于共同的历史进程，类似的人文和自然环境以及相同的宗教信仰和神灵观念，特别是相对封闭的交通条件，藏民族在漫长的岁月长河中，逐渐形成了自己独具特色的居住、饮食、衣着习俗，以及生、老、病、死、婚丧、嫁娶的人生礼仪，还有音乐、舞蹈、绘画、雕塑、娱乐、节日等文化积淀，这就是让国内外无数民族学家、民俗学家、社会学家、文化人类学家产生深厚兴趣，趋之若鹜，乐此不疲地进行调查、考察、研究、传播的西藏民俗和雪域风情。本书为英文版。

Preface: Here Is a Real Tibet

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Tibetan Race

1.Siba Butchers Cows

2.What Geophysicists Say

3.The Plateau Itself

4.Story About the Name of Tubo

5.Ancestor Monkey and Raksasi

6.Two Ruins of the New Stone Age

7.Story of the Son of the Heavenly Deity

History and Facts

1.Historical Records on Tubo Found in Dunhuang

2.Exchanges Between Hart and Tibetan, and Princess Wencheng

3.Tang-Tubo Peace Pledge Tablet

4.Tea-Horse Trade

5.Sagya Monastery and Pagba

6.Yongle Edition of Tripitaka

7.Qing High Commissioners and 29-Article Ordinance

8.Gunfire in 1904

9.Peaceful Liberation of Tibet in 1951

Tibetan Buddhism and Temporal and Religious Administration

1.Development of Tibetan Buddhism

2.Rise of Five Buddhist Sects

3.Reincarnation of Living Buddhas

4.Reincarnation of the Dalai and the Panchen

5.Mr. Donggar on Temporal and Religious Administration

6.End of the 14th Dalai Regime in 1959

Democratic Reform and Self-Government in Tibet

1.Tibetan Serfdom Described by Foreigners

2.Li Youyi's Description of Tibet in the Late 1940s

3.Democratic Reform and Emancipation of Serfs

4.Diary on Democratic Election in Tibet

5. National Regional Autonomy

6.Dalai's So-Called High-Level Autonomy

Reform Program Enjoys Popularity

1.Aftermath of the "Cultural Revolution"

2.Two Work Conferences on Tibet in the Early 1980s

3.Repair of Damaged Monasteries

4.Rescuing Traditional Tibetan Culture

5.Lhasa Faces a New World

6.Lhasa's Sense of Environmental Protection

Between Tradition and Modernization

1.Musical Dance Qomolangma

2.Historical Pursuit for Development

3.Proposal for the "Three-Rivers Project"

4.Construction of Reservoirs: Life Project

5.Forest Belts in Shannan Prefecture

6.Story of Fine Seeds Village

7.Telephone Village in Nyingchi

8.Tibet on Its Own Way to Modernization