Editor's Notes:According to archaeological findings, as early asMore than 4000 years ago, the ancestors of the Tibetan people lived and prospered in the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin, creating a splendid Tibetan culture. Tibetan culture is an important part of Chinese culture and a bright pearl on the snowy plateau. Tibetan opera, Tibetan paper, thangka painting, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan medicine, card pads, Tibetan carpet manufacturing, as well as construction, dance, music, religious instruments, etiquette, etc., are carrying the Tibetan people's continuation of thousands of years of civilization and wisdom. Nowadays, Tibetan culture has become an important object of protection of Chinese national characteristic culture. However, because of the backwardness of the local economy and the lack of a concept of protection, coupled with the remoteness of the Tibetan areas and the harshness of the natural conditions, the local government is unable to take this work into account, some of the cultural relics in the Tibetan areas are in a precarious state, and the phenomenon of no one succeeding to some of the ancient skills is very serious, and the trend of "people going away to die in the arts" is directly jeopardizing the protection and inheritance of the Tibetan cultural heritage.

Thousands of miles of snow-capped mountains, scattered blue lakes, the crowded streets of Patlang, and monks singing and chanting sutras. This one lens, like a dream, like a fantasy, showing in Tibet this piece of the earth's most mysterious plateau nurtured a unique civilization. Unfortunately, this acres of beautiful fantasy color, is disappearing a little bit.

As a deputy to the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, Li Xi-Xinjia Danzhen is also the thirty-eighth Lixi living Buddha of Benjaminism. In the provincial people's congress, he put forward the most motion is about how to protect the traditional culture and cultural relics in Tibetan areas. He also mobilized people around for the rescue of Xiangxiong culture and contribute to the hope that the money out of money, power to contribute. However, for a variety of reasons, these efforts have not yielded significant results.

Living Buddha Lisi lamented."Xiangxiong culture and benjaminism are like the setting sun", as a living Buddha if you don't discover and rescue the precious relics of Xiangxiong civilization, "I am sorry for my ancestors". The first living Buddha Li Xi is Li Xi - Dajian master, he is the great translator of Xiangxiong and Tubo, in order to translate, inherit and promote Xiangxiong culture as a lifelong mission. From then on, each generation hasHe inherited this sacred mission to carry forward the Xiangxiong civilization and maintain the development of Tibetan culture as his lifelong pursuit. By now, what makes the 38th Lixi Living Buddha worry is that the fundamental culture of the Tibetan people has been gradually marginalized over time, and its social status has been declining day by day. Carrier of the Fundamental Culture--The rock paintings, murals, ancient burial sites, ancient buildings, ancient city ruins, grottoes and temples, and even the oldest Tibetan script, Xiangxiongwen, which was originally part of the life of the Tibetan people, have gradually faded away from the society along with the decline of the Xiangxiong civilization, the erosion of nature and the destruction of the civilization by human beings. Later, with the decline of Xiangxiong civilization, natural erosion and man-made destruction, gradually and society is drifting away. The "loneliness of a thousand years" is the general state of the relics of Xiangxiong, which is located in the rare place, the cultural value is even more neglected, and is even moving towards extinction at an alarming speed. Speaking of murals, drums, armor, shedding, disease and even the collapse of the entire wall, can make these precious relics from the demise. In addition to natural aggression, there are also burglars' injuries as well as human damage ......

Lixi prayed for a kindred spirit to appear in one disappointment after another, until Living Buddha Lixi met Tannoy Charitable Foundation.Chairman of the Board,"Yellow Ribbon."charity ambassadorWang YuyingThe"We can't let civilization disappear on our watch."Tiannuo Charitable Foundation upholds the noble sense of mission to guard human culture, work in the Tibetan cultural rescue and Li Xi living Buddha hit it off immediately.

The Tiannuo Charity Foundation, chaired by Wang Yuying, is a private foundation formed by some enthusiasts in the mainland who are committed to the protection of history and culture in Tibetan areas, and its sources of funding are all from the private sector. The purpose of the foundation is to discover, organize, rescue and protect cultural relics that have been damaged and left unattended for a long time, as well as intangible cultural heritages that are on the verge of extinction in Tibetan areas through project assistance and training of the recipients, and to provide basic education, health and infrastructure help to the poor people in the area.

nowadaysThis team, dedicated to the conservation of Tibetan cultural relics and the inheritance of non-genetic heritage, has been running on the Tibetan plateau for ten years, trekking through the mountains and waters of the Tibetan region. FromSince 2000, the initiator of TIANNUO Charity Foundation, Mr. Wang Yuying, has taken the team into the Sichuan-Tibet line and started the initial charitable action. 2007 end of TIANNUO Charity Foundation initiated the preparation, reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the State Council for approval, due to the foundation's special positioning and function, soon in January of the next year, the State Council approved the official establishment of the license plate. Media reportersUnderstand that there are many domestic non-profit private foundations, but not many of them have been approved by the state, and together with the legal registration of public charitable foundations, the country has only88. The Tiannuo Charity Foundation is the only state-level private foundation in China that makes charitable donations to ethnic minority areas.

Wang Yuying, Chairman of Tiannuo Charity Foundation, introduced that the initiators of the Foundation are most concerned about the final effect of charitable donations. In order to make this public welfare truly come to fruition, they have practiced a special way of charitable donations, namelyThe "three pro" working method of "personal experience, personal gifts and personal visits". In order to ensure the use of each sum of money, each time their staff personally deliver the money and materials to the hands of the local people, and each cultural protection work is also personally implemented and supervised by them. So far, through this way, they have carried out full-coverage charitable donation activities for Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan with more than 2 million square kilometers and nearly 6 million Tibetan population distribution areas, with donations amounting to hundreds of millions of RMB. In the process of donation, they also do the work of poverty alleviation, but at present this is already a "sideline", the foundation's work focuses on the protection and inheritance of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Tibetan areas.

Discovering and rescuing Tibetan cultural relics is both meaningful and interesting. In the words of the participants, over the years, they have seen a lot of"Good stuff."

      One day in March, with light snow drifting, the staff of Tiannuo traveled through a trek to a hanging temple. It is a place for monks to practice, usually built on top of a cliff, for a period of three to five years, or even a lifetime. The temple originally had 108 rooms, and now only three rooms remain. But it was these three remaining rooms that were an eye-opener for them. Different murals are preserved in all three houses, among which there is a map of Lisi's generational inheritance. More rare is that a room of murals is Xiangma save "eight difficulties" story. Xiangma in the benzene religion in the Buddha is a very important Buddha, Xiangxiong called Sa Zhi Ersang, Tibetan called Xiangma, the Chinese meaning is mother of mercy. Xiangma in Tibetan culture in the degree of honor as the Chinese Guanyin Bodhisattva, Tibetans call her "mother of mercy", she symbolizes wisdom and compassion. On the mural, Xiangma is holding a vase in her left hand (representing compassion) and a mirror in her right hand (representing wisdom). She is accompanied by eight women who share her compassion, each rescuing eight different disasters. The mural delicately conveys the honored status of women and the power she possessed in ancient times, artistically highlighting the status of women, the content of which is extremely rare in existing murals. After years of disrepair, the wall that carries the story of the loving mother is in tatters and falling apart, even leaving behind children's graffiti work - "It's a pity that it's too late." It is not too late as long as they come. They came a dozen times to make this rare mural protected.
Tenno's comrades boarded the Gundam3800 meters in Jinchuan County, Gagu Mountain. The retreat room on the mountain is the place where Li Xi XXVII practiced. The murals in the room tell the story of Master Liangmei's journey of hard training and learning. Liangmei master is known as the second ancestor of Benjaminism, he has great attainments in the field of large and small five Ming and Tibetan science, in the Xiangxiong cultural heritage has made great contributions. He played a pioneering role in the fusion of Benjaminism and Buddhism.

       Most rarely, they found petroglyphs carved on rocks in Ritu County. The petroglyphs have motifs of plants, animals, and, more difficult still, the Eight Truths. The Eight Truths is one of the main truths of the Benzo religion, and the presence of the Eight Truths on the petroglyphs indicates that it appeared at a very early stage and has a longer history than is known. These petroglyphs are said to have originated in the Stone Age. Ritu petroglyphs is a kind of stone carving culture, in the early development process of human beings, human ancestors use stone tools as tools, with rough, simple, natural stone carving method to depict and record their production methods and life content, it is the early cultural phenomenon of human society. In recent years, in ali area, change, geji, ritu and other counties found a large number of rock paintings, including a small number of precious color painting. The rock paintings cover the range of religious rituals, riding, grazing, farming, sun and moon, cattle and sheep, houses, characters and so on. Ritu County, more than a dozen petroglyphs large scale, large number, high artistic value.

"Every member of our foundation believes that this cause is of great significance and wants to contribute all their energy to the cultural preservation of Tibetan areas." said Wang Yuying, Chairman of the Board of Directors. With a strong sense of historical responsibility and realistic sense of urgency, the members of the Tiannuo Charity Foundation have taken the initiative to undertake the historical mission of protecting and passing on the culture of the Tibetan area. The mission of guarding Tibetan culture is honorable, but along the way Wang Yuying with TIANNUO people is not so so glorious, walking on the road of protecting culture is difficult.

High altitude reaction, mudslides, rockfalls, avalanches, driving on icy roads, lack of water and electricity, endurance of starvation and cold, endemic diseases, rapid response to emergencies...... All kinds of tests challenge the tolerance and willpower of the members of Tenno.

       Walking, on the plains of people is more than usual, but on the plateau, walking has become the first difficult thing. Highway conditions are extremely simple, there are places where there is no road to go, narrow corners, often see the fluttering streamers, fluttering streamers signaling that this is an accident-prone place. The most dangerous time, the car often half wheel empty line in the cliffs, in such a place to drive, car, on the human nerve is really a great challenge. Although they have done all kinds of ideological preparation, but on the road, the complexity of the difficult, dangerous far beyond their imagination and psychological bottom line.

       Lv Shan, a volunteer of the Foundation, goes deep into the Tibetan area year after year, often working on the plateau, and when he returned to Beijing, his friends asked him"How's the view from Ali", to which he replied "I was looking at the road, I really didn't pay attention".

      Walking and hiking in places where cars can't go, is even more of a huge test, and Tenno's protected 100% of the time."Raised in the mountains people do not know", many monuments, caves, cultivation sites are built in the cliffs far from the beaten track, in the conditions of thin oxygen mountaineering, walking up a few steps on the panting, alone close to these places has been very impressive. Often, they succeeded in "summit", to the mouth of the cave, but the diameter of the cave is only one foot five or so, they had to use their hands instead of their feet, climb in and out, everyone also has to practice a "shrinkage".

       2011surname NianIn April, the members of Tiannuo headed for the ancient city site of Dome of Silver City, which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level. The weather at that time was extremely bad, with a slope of nearly 60 degrees, and the constantly sliding sandstone and pebbles made the road even more difficult, and this road was called "slippery road" by the members of Tiannuo. One of them was injured in a fall, one of them was exhausted, and one of them had a high fever after descending from the mountain, and even the locals admitted that they had never been so tired before.

In addition to the harsh weather conditions and difficult traveling conditions, endemic diseases are a constant threat to the health and safety of Tinno members. Some local villages still share water with people and animals, which can lead to hepatitis, liverworm or tuberculosis. However, under these conditions, even if you are thirsty, you have to drink.

       In Tiannuo, there is a rumor that one day they were going to a county to make donations, and before they set off, the governor of this county came to the compound first, and it turned out that he had been on the road for three days and had come specifically to find comrades of the Foundation. As soon as they met, he persuaded the comrades of the Foundation not to go, and tried again and again to discourage them. Foundation comrades are very strange, which a governor is not willing to give their own county to do donations? Puzzled and puzzled, they pressed him on why, and the governor stammered that"Our roads are too difficult and our environment too dangerous to see you become martyrs" - turns out he means well.

       Poor natural conditions, so that the protection of cultural relics can only be adapted to local conditions, simple and simple. For the collapse of the roof of the building, for the tilt of the wall pillars, for the cultural relics circle rope, hanging streamers, door locks, hired guards, which is the usual means of protection of cultural relics Tiannuo, the results show that fast and effective. For example, Tiannuo funded for the Hanging Temple cover the roof, where the wind and rain leakage cracks with wooden boards, plastic sheeting, grass ash and other cover to fill, with pillars to support the crumbling walls. Tiannuo's Xiangxiong Cultural Conservation Association protects the Bodhisattva of the Goddess of Mercy in Tibet with waterproof and anti-theft measures. To date, Tinno has financed the construction ofAnti-theft and waterproofing facilities have been installed in 18 caves. Anti-theft measures include locking the doors and employing six people to keep watch; waterproofing is done by applying waterproofing material at the water seepage point, in addition to building a roof and a shed. Pulling up streamers to prevent people from entering is a particularly effective and typical way in Tibetan areas. The problem is, although the streamers can block the locals, but can not block foreign tourists, explorers trampling, so they had to put up a warning sign "this place is dangerous, prohibit climbing".

       Over the past four years, Tiannuo people have gotten used to such scenes, and when they left, the Tibetans held their hands and wouldn't let go, repeatedly reciting words of thanks, even calling the staff"Living Bodhisattva". So far, Tinno's donations have spread to Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other regions.

In recent years, China has made some achievements in guarding the culture of Tibetan areas, and these good news can not be separated from the credit of TIANNUO Charity Foundation, not to mention the efforts of TIANNUO Charity Chairman Wang Yuying. In an interview, Wang Yuying talked about the environment in Tibetan areas:"Tibetan villages are so far away from each other that they even need to cross two snow-covered mountains, which is a long way to travel, plus the Qinghai-Kangzhou-Tibetan Plateau Region has poor weather, and there are yearlyNine months is a blizzard.The"Wang Yuying learned about the special environment in Tibet, so she chose to carry out charity here:"To get charity on the ground here, which allows Tibetan children in remote mountainous areas to be able to not have to climb mountains and wade through snowstorms to attend classes and possibly lose their lives, because before they can get to school, they have already died on the road. There is also Tenno still doing water separation for humans and animals in Tibetan areas. Tibetan water comes from melting snow on snowy mountains, but Tibetans graze their animals and often mix it with human water, which affects drinking water hygiene. This kind of infrastructure, such as separate drinking water for humans and animals, may seem insignificant, but it is a solid improvement of life at the grassroots level." Wang Yuying is concerned about the living environment of people in impoverished areas, and is committed to improving the standard of living in backward areas, which he has been doing for most of his life.

Wang Yuying has his own unique way of thinking about protecting cultural relics and carrying out infrastructure and disaster relief work in Tibetan areas:"Charity must be grounded, the so-called grounded, that is, to penetrate deeply and integrate into the land, the people, the culture, which is called grounded. Therefore, when I do charity, I will catch a characteristic, and that characteristic is the local culture, customs, and people's sentiments, and we cognize the religion, which is actually transmuted from the local culture, customs and people's sentiments, therefore, the culture is the root, and the culture is the fundamental."

Wang Yuying's family identity has a unique aura, yet she uses it to walk the grassroots and make people feel welcome. Wang Yuying spends most of her life working on Tibetan charities and a third of her time dealing with the United Nations. She likes to spend her time helping the less fortunate and the poor in western China, she says:"It's not simply a matter of cultural protection, it's part of the culture of the Chinese nation, it's also part of the global civilization, human civilization, and each of us should have a responsibility, just like being a father, there's a father's responsibility, and being a mother there's a mother's responsibility, and everyone has a responsibility."

Until now, countless media such as People's Daily, Xinhua, Beijing Daily, China Youth Daily and so on have made in-depth reports on Wang Yuying's charitable activities and fully affirmed them. Nowadays, Wang Yuying, who is committed to helping the backward areas in the central and western regions, has become a charitable organization."Goddess", for our country to realize the construction of comprehensive well-off, to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation's Chinese dream to pay a solid force!