Festivals: Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in Tibet . It lasts fifteen days from 1st day of the 1st Tibetan Month. It is an occasion when Tibetan families gather together and express best wishes for the coming year.

Medicine: traditional Tibetan medicine is a vast and highly evolved medical science which has absorbed the medical element of India and China , as well as that of Mongolian and Persian. It regards almost everything---animal, vegetable or mineral as a potential medicine or sources of harm. The materials of medicine are often exotic high-altitude plants.