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A camel at the ‘Camel Haircut’ competition at...

Sat, 12 May 2012 23:56:36 +0200

A camel at the ‘Camel Haircut’ competition at Bikaner, India - Imgur

nationalpost: Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, 27, runs as he is...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:01:52 +0200

Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, 27, runs as he is engulfed in flames after he set himself on fire to protest an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao, March 26, 2012, in New Delhi. (AFP/Getty Images)

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moltovomito: Jampa Yeshi, Tibetan Exile, Sets Self On Fire In...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:00:19 +0200

moltovomito:

Jampa Yeshi, Tibetan Exile, Sets Self On Fire In Self-Immolation Anti-China Protest

docutube: The Story of The Weeping Camel (2003) 1h 27min A...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:55:47 +0200

docutube:

The Story of The Weeping Camel (2003) 1h 27min

A German docudrama about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert trying to save the life of a rare white bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) calf after it was rejected by its mother. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary at the 77th Academy Awards.

Bits of Mongolia: Mongolia tumblrs

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:53:49 +0200

Bits of Mongolia: Mongolia tumblrs:

minimongol:

ninewhitebanners:

If you are digging ninewhitebanners, here are the other Mongolia tumblrs I know about:

battlefoxes posts landscape photos they took on a trip to Mongolia. Battlefoxes’ pictures are always framed by sky. (Mongolian has separate words for blue and sky-color blue,…

I’m honored to be listed here! Haven’t been posting recently, but I swear, I’ll do better!

minimongol: February 22nd is Mongolian Lunar new year, also...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:24:54 +0100

minimongol:

February 22nd is Mongolian Lunar new year, also known as Tsagaan sar (White Moon). However, the date of the lunar new year varies year to year depending on the position of the moon.

Tsagaan sar is one of the important holidays in Mongolian culture. On the new year’s eve (known as Bituun), Mongolians eat lots of food, such as dumplings, potato salad, lamb and milk tea etc, welcoming the new year with a full stomach: symbolizing to be healthy and richer in coming year.

Around the New Year families burn candles at the altar symbolising enlightenment. Also people greet each other by saying phrases like Амар байна уу? (Amar baina uu?), a greeting specific to the event meaning “Are you well-rested?”. Mongols also visit friends and family on this day and exchange gifts. A typical Mongol family will meet in the home dwelling of the eldest in the family. Many people will be dressed in full garment of national Mongol costumes. When greeting their elders during the White Moon festival, Mongols perform the zolgokh greeting, grasping them by their elbows to show support for them. The eldest receives greetings from each member of the family except for his/her spouse. During the greeting ceremony, family members hold long pieces of colored cloth called khadag. After the ceremony, the extended family eats rice with curds, dairy products and buuz and drinks airag, and exchanges gifts.

perfect post, I love it!

minimongol: Pedestrian Traffic Light in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:23:33 +0100

minimongol:

Pedestrian Traffic Light in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

ninewhitebanners: A carved rock in Mongolia. The alphabet is...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:28:16 +0100

ninewhitebanners:

A carved rock in Mongolia. The alphabet is either Quadratic script or Tibetan, I think? The quadratic script was created by the monk Zanabazar based on the Tibetan and Phags Pa scripts. The Quadratic script had all the sounds to write Mongolia, Tibetan, or Sanskrit. The Mongolian language has had several different writing systems created for it through history.

Love it! My two favorite countries - Poland and Mongolia...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:27:01 +0100

Love it! My two favorite countries - Poland and Mongolia <3

gmdj:

#mongolia #poland #minimalist #cube #rubik (Taken with instagram)

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:25:02 +0100

ninewhitebanners: Airag and Mongolian cheese photo from the...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:12 +0100

ninewhitebanners:

Airag and Mongolian cheese photo from the American TV show Bizarre Foods, which did an episode on traditional Mongolian food. Airag is a slightly alcoholic drink made from horse milk, but I have seen cow-milk airag in America.

I think airag tastes like yogurt, with a little beer and a teeny bit of salt mixed in. It’s refreshing during a hot dry summer.

Interesting article on Mongolian coin oracles

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:35:49 +0100

Interesting article on Mongolian coin oracles

Tibetan food: tsampa, momo, thenthuk

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:44:14 +0100

Tsampa - roasted barley flour - Tibetan staple food.

“Apart from tea, tsampa is the staple, indeed often the only, diet of the Tibetans. It is a kind of flour made from roasted barley. This is how you eat it. You leave a little buttered tea in the bottom of your bowl and put a big dollop of tsampa on top of it. You stir gently with the forefinger, then knead with the hand, meanwhile twisting your bowl round and round until you finish up with a large dumplinglike object which you proceed to ingest, washing it down with more tea. The whole operation demands a high degree of manual dexterity, and you need a certain amount of practical experience before you can judge correctly how much tsampa goes with how much tea. Until you get these proportions right the end product is apt to turn into either a lump of desiccated dough or else a semiliquid paste which sticks to your fingers. Sometimes you lace this preparation with a form of powdered milk, made from curds which have been dried in the sun.”

Migot, André. (1955). Tibetan Marches. Translated and with an introduction by Peter Fleming, p. 103.. E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York.

Momo - dumpling made of flour-and-water dough filled with yak meat mixed with onion, garlic and sometimes potatoes. In some regions also filled with cabbage and potato or cheese.

Thenthuk - noodle soup with wheat flour dough, mixed vegetables and pieces of mutton or yak meat.

Life magazine's cover (May 4, 1959)

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:58:28 +0100

Mongolian Food: buuz, khuushuur, khorkhog

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100

Buuz - steamed mutton dumplings

Khuushuur - dumplings fried in mutton fat

Khorkhog - meat stew cooked in milk jugs with hot rocks

Tsam Ceremony masks

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:12:00 +0100

Classical mongolian saying. I simply adore the goose - our...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:57:55 +0100

Classical mongolian saying. I simply adore the goose - our teacher drew it for us to make translation more plesureable <3

Potala Palace

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:48:00 +0100

Faces of Tibet

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:24:00 +0100

Women of Tibet

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:13:09 +0100