Art & Design

Tibetan Medical Museum (Interior)

Massive thangka at the far end of the museum's lobby depiciting the Medicine Buddha (sMan lha). N.B. the altar in the foreground bedecked with khatas, money offerings, and peacock feathers.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Tibetan Medical Museum (Interior)

A massive 'book' lies in the centre of the lobby bearing an inscription by Hu Jintao (current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China) in both Chinese (not shown) and Tibetan. Further research would yield a translation of its message.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Ta'er Shan Park

Sites in and around a hilltop picnic area to the southeast of Xining. All buildings are devoid of religious symbolism of any kind, despite their seemingly Buddhist archictecture. It is a popular activity for families or groups of friends to picnic inside the structures or on the surrounding hillsides. The day of my visit happend to be during a brief taxi driver strike in Xining; lo and behold, inside the building seen in DSCN0876 were a group of roughly 20 taxi drivers dining and drinking the afternoon away.
Photographer: 
Matt Zito

Chinese Door with Confucian Imagery

Another example of the Confucian imagery splashed upon doors all over Xining. Note how these two figures differ from those seen in 0408 - the latter are clearly protectors, while what we have here seem like prosperity gods (similar to DSCN0640).
Photographer: 
Matt Zito