Hangin at the monastery

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October 12th 2015
Hey everyone! This past week we took a plane and met up with some of the Shanghai kids in Qinghai. Qinghai is much farther north than Beijing, and is also at a much higher elevation (on average 9,800 ft above sea level). However, because we left early Sunday morning, we had half a day to ourselves so we ended up visiting a Tibetan medicine museum. Inside was the world's longest thangka (a tradi ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more