(InTibet) CHINA-TIBET-PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT-CONSERVATION (CN)

(InTibet) CHINA-TIBET-PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT-CONSERVATION (CN)

(230430) -- LHASA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gyumey Tsultrim checks a reference book in Sanskrit and Tibetan in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 19, 2023. At Truzing Palace of Norbulingka in the western suburbs of Lhasa, thousands of ancient books on various fields of Tibet are stored on shelves. For now, Gyumey Tsultrim and his colleagues' primary task is to make an inventory of the ancient books both manually and digitally. Gyumey Tsultrim was born in 1967 in Chanang County in Shannan. In 1986, while experts from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Tibet Autonomous Region were conducting historical and cultural research in Chanang, Gyumey Tsultrim, working as an assistant in Tibetan language, was exposed to Sanskrit for the first time. In 1991, he went to the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China in Beijing to study Sanskrit systematically. In 2006, Gyumey Tsultrim published a book on Sanskrit handwriting and began participating in the protection of the palm-leaf manuscr

(InTibet) CHINA-TIBET-PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT-CONSERVATION (CN)

(InTibet) CHINA-TIBET-PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT-CONSERVATION (CN)

(230430) -- LHASA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gyumey Tsultrim checks a reference book in Sanskrit and Tibetan in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 19, 2023. At Truzing Palace of Norbulingka in the western suburbs of Lhasa, thousands of ancient books on various fields of Tibet are stored on shelves. For now, Gyumey Tsultrim and his colleagues' primary task is to make an inventory of the ancient books both manually and digitally. Gyumey Tsultrim was born in 1967 in Chanang County in Shannan. In 1986, while experts from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Tibet Autonomous Region were conducting historical and cultural research in Chanang, Gyumey Tsultrim, working as an assistant in Tibetan language, was exposed to Sanskrit for the first time. In 1991, he went to the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China in Beijing to study Sanskrit systematically. In 2006, Gyumey Tsultrim published a book on Sanskrit handwriting and began participating in the protection of the palm-leaf manuscr