culture

Protection and inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Tibet

           Since the 1980s, the Tibet Autonomous Region and each prefecture and city under it have set up institutions to rescuee,sort out and study Tibetan cultural heritage,and successively sent our investigation teams to make comprehansive investigations and conduct interviews in the urban areas, villages and temple. In 2007 Tibet also intensified its efforts to protect the intangible cultural heritage,preserve and spread excellent traditional culture.The culture administretive departments sent a large number of staff member to various parts of Tibet, interviewing folk hanhicraftsman,transcribing audio and visual materials, taking photos and publishing academic papers related to Tibetan traditional culturel as well as monographs regarding the Tibetan culture.

         In future Tibet will establish the system for intangible cultural heritage protection and development, fully implementing projects concerning the protection and construction of intangible cultural heritage.Efforts will also be made to conduct the general survey work regarding intangible cultural heritage and set up archives and databanks.On such a base, Tibet will also make efforts to gradually establish the system of classified protection,strengthening research,cognizance,preservation ans inheritance work.