Environmentalists say that sky burials are good for the environment because no wood is burned, no water is fouled and no space is used up.
Please keep quiet on the top of mountains. It is believed
Do not receive or give a gift with only a hand. While presenting the
gift, you should bend your body forward and hold the gift higher than your heБайду номын сангаасd with both hands.
Lamaist devil dance跳神会
Festivals
The Shoton festival (雪顿节/展佛节) It is also called the Yogurt Festival, happened on July 1st in the Tibetan calendar.
The festival mainly consists of 3 parts - Great Buddha Display, Tibetan Opera Show and Horsemanship & Yak Race Show. In combination they represent the best of Tibetan religion, culture and tradition.
When the host presents you
a cup of wine; you should dip your ring finger in the wine and flick the wine into the sky, in the air and to the ground respectively to express your respects to the heaven, the earth and the ancestors before sipping the wine. The host will fill the cup, and you take a sip of the wine again. After the host fills your cup for the forth time, you have to bottom it up.
Tibet culture
Culture
festivals folkways
Festivals
Losar
(The Tibetan New Year)---藏历新年
Losar
is celebrated for 15 days, with the main celebrations on the first three days. & It is the most important festival in Tibet. and there will be a week long drama and carnivals, horse races and archery.
Folkways--- Funerals
The
Tibetans have five ways of disposing of the dead bodies: 1) Water Burial;(水葬) 2) Sky Burial; （天葬） 3) Fire Burial;（火葬） 4) Earth Burial; （土葬） 5) Embalming（尸体防腐）
Folkways
Tibetans
is an old and passionate ethnic minority. During the long history, Tibetans have formed their own customs and taboos. With unique culture and religion, Tibetans have different ways of behavior in many aspects.
How to behave in Tibet?
About

daily life
Tibetan people do not eat horse, dog and donkey meat and also do not eat fish in some areas, so please respect their diet habits. that loud noise will result in heavy snow, storms or hail.
Sky burial

"Sky burials” are the most common way of disposing of dead bodies in Tibet. The Tibetan believe that if the dead is fed to the vultures ,his spirit will be carried skyward to heaven .
Great Buddha Display (展佛
Washing Festival沐浴节
-July
in the Tibetan calendar
Washing Festival lasts about a week. People go to the river to wash themselves and their clothes. Said to cure any sickness.
Water burial
In the “water burial,” the body is dumped in a lake or another body of water. Fish sometimes eat the bodies which partly explains why Tibetan don‘t eat fish .