Tibet Information etiquette

Tibetan ritual are diverse, with Buddhist rituals and customs are also in close contact with the main ceremony the following:

Presented hada - presented hada of the Tibetan people is the most common kind of courtesy. Festive funerals, called Zun, Buddhist pilgrimage, audio exchanges, to bid farewell to travel and so on, are presented hada habits. Hada is a silk-sheng, such as spinning a sloppy network; also excellent, with silk hada expected to do. Hada different lengths, one elderly Er Zhang, who three-foot short. Hatta said that the purity, sincerity, loyalty meant. Since ancient times, the people of the Tibetan people that the white symbol of purity, Geely, it is generally white hada. Of course, there are colorful hada, for the color blue, white, yellow, green and red. That blue, blue sky, white clouds, green rivers that water, said the law of God red, yellow, a symbol of the earth. Colorful hada is dedicated to the Buddha and a close relative when the rocket used to do color, is the most solemn gift. Flying Colors of explanation of the Buddhist teachings of the Buddha is hada clothing, so colorful hada limited by time.

Kowtow - Tibetan kowtow is also common courtesy, usually Buddhist pilgrimage, when the Living Buddha Stupa and kowtow, but also for the elderly and bowed. There are long kowtow in the first knock, knock knock ring and a short head in the first three.

In the Jokhang Temple, the Potala Palace and other religious activities in temples, often can see people long head knock. When Gassho knock-handed overhead, top-to amount to the chest, three times Gongyi, V creeping in, hands Zhishen, flat on the ground, for its designated. And then rose as did the former.

In the temple, there is a knock in the first rung of the methods and bowed. Regardless of men, women and children, the first three-arch Gassho Yi, and then back to the arch at the foot of the Buddha, with a light head, said that sincere repentance means.

Tea toast - of the Tibetan people in addition to greet the guests dip their hands under the three rounds of wine, but also in the fighting, grasping a little grain barley, to throw in the air three times. Banquet, the first masters of wine to drink Duanqi a glass of red slip down, the master finished drinking the first cup of drink, you can drink free. Festivals, a guest at the home of the Tibetan people, the owner will ask you to drink highland barley wine. Highland barley wine is not distilled, rice wine similar to the Submit, generally 15 degrees to 20 degrees, Tibet's highland barley wine to drink almost all men, women and children. Drink, guests must drink a full cup and then three Hegan, it is customary rules, not the masters of the unhappy, or that guests do not Dongli Mao, or that his guests look down. Tea is the day-to-day etiquette, guests seated inside, housewives and children will come back butter tea, but the guests do not have to drink their own side, such as a master Pengdao Qu He took over only in front of you, so that is how it is treated.

These are the rituals of the Tibetan people in the most common, the most common, there are other on a courtesy call. Others known, generally in the back of his name-plus-one "you". There are Tibetan and non-honorific honorific distinction. Venerable on the use of honorifics or guests to speak, respect each other. Second, in regard to eat, and do not speak a lot about food, did not bite, do not drink the sound, choose not to eat more of the rules set. Of the road, there is no scramble in front of others, must meet the rules of comity. Can not sit there when I robbed the guest of honor, Dongdaoxiwai can not, can not Shentui rules, and so on, which is generally the older generation to educate their children is important to note some of the rituals