They led me to a house, where a thick curtain was hung on the door to defend the wind and keep the house warm. They showed me their living room equipped with lush carpets. There are butter tea, yak meat, potatos, carrots and mushroom stewed in pots on the oven that surrounded by benches with cushions. After eating up these food, you will feel warm from inside and out.
Like many Tibetan young people in Lhasa, my friends listen to Tibetan folk songs and Lhasa-style rock music with their iPods. Guitar solo and the Buddhist mantra "om mani padme hum" was also played in songs.
Night clubs
On the Beijing Road, many young Tibetan girls dressed with riding boots, leather pants, braided hair and surgical masks to keep sand and dust off their faces. In all-night ballrooms, young people from various regions were attracted to relax and have fun there. Folk dances were also staged at night clubs and people can join in if they wish.
Monks in meditation
The highlight of my trip was a two-hour rickety bus trip up to the Ganden Monastery, located in Tagtse county of Lhasa and one of the six major monasteries of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
Inside temples, buildings are painted in red and yellow. Meditative monks focused their attention on paintings drawn on the mandala. Then, they destroyed those paintings, symbolizing the fast decay of life.
I missed the last bus at 1 p.m. In order to go downhill before sunset, I decided to hurry up. But I suffered from the altitude sickness. The local people gave me a lift and drove me to Lhasa, they also told me to drink butter tea so that I could become warm.
After drinking some butter tea, I didn't feel cold any more. At the same time, I found that Tibetans like the butter tea so much.
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