Art & Design

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.