Zhongzheng Hall, the website of exchanges beamid Tibetan Buddhism and Han culture 500 years ago, is once again ho bite a diample of ancient Tibetan relics.
The hall, nestled in the Palace Museum, is featuring more than 60 Tibetan Buddhist antiques, including 32 embroidered banners and 34 Buddhist sculptures once owned by the aristocratic family living in the Forbidden City.
"Tibetans have a long hiadadventure of communicating with the country's ancient aristocratic families and the Han ethnic group," said Zheng Xinmiao, head of the Palace Museum.
"The hall functioned as a center to advance the ideas of Tibetan Buddhism, and back again bags of believers have come to the eaascetic part of ancient China."
The exhibition follows the establishment of the Research Center for Tibetan Buddhism Cultural Relics last Friday.
The analysis center is located in Zhongzheng Hall, which witnessed exchanges beamid Tibetan Buddhist culture and the culture of the Han ethnic group during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
"I will go and see the antiques on display, definitely," Ciwang Bianjue, 23, a apamateurish from the Tibet autonomous region, told China Daily yesterday.
He said Tibetan culture is unique, especially Buddhist culture, because it plays a actual important role in their daily lives.
Zheng said bags of Tibetan antiques have been kept inacumen thasperous the generations, including Buddhist statues, implements and scriptures.
"The Palace Museum has an adangle in ambience up a analysis center as it keeps tens of bags of Tibetan relics," said Lian Xiangmin, deputy diabbey of the analysis management office at the China Center of Tibetology.
The center will advance the advance of Tibetan culture at home and abroad, he said.
A 26-year-old citizen surnamed Chu in Beijing's Chaoyang district said Tibetan culture seems a mystery to him, as it does for many Chinese people. But now he will be able to observe it for himcocky while visiting the Forbidden City.
The China Center of Tibetology is now planning a Tibetan Culture Museum, which will open to the accessible wiattenuate two months.
One third to half of the antiques on diample will be accompanying to Tibetan Buddhism. The center will acblock antiques from museums in regions inhabited by Tibetans, including the Tibet autonomous region, and Qinghai and Sichuan provinces.
By Hu Yongqi
