How to Make a Traditional Tibetan Cooker
In this video you will see how the Tibetan nomads build a clay oven from locally dug earth mixed with yak dung. The stove is built anew at each site that the nomads settle. While some may call this primitive technology, it is actually a sophisticated design perfectly adapted to burn their only fuel, yak dung, with minimal smoke. Very ecological and sustainable, for when the nomads leave the site the cooker gradually dissolves back into the earth leaving nothing behind.
The traditional Tibetan stove's name is (སྒྱིད་པུ) Gyelphu or Sagyel. The food cooking in the video are fried bread sticks. called (གོ་རེ)Ghorii in Tibet.
It is just made from wheat flour and water.
These stoves are as beautiful as they are functional, and become a beautiful sculpture inside every nomad tent. They can be made anywhere that natural clay can be found, and each region has its own clay pit. If you want to make one but don't want to use dung, use finely chopped grass.
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Tibetan Nomad: What a Tibetan Nomad Tent Looks Like?
The tent, the home of Tibetan Nomads, is traditionally made of yak wool. Even today, with the prevalence of various modern textile materials, Tibetan nomads still choose to make their tent houses with the most primitive materials in the most traditional way.
The typical nomad tent is made of black yak hair, which is waterproof, and insulated. Inside the tent, it is truly warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
The interior of the nomad tent has no walls, but it is still well divided into different functional areas.
Generally, there is an earthen stove in the middle with piles of fuels behind. In fact, the so-called ‘fuel’ is just dried yak dung.
There are no beds, tables, chairs, or other furniture inside the tent, only an earth bed for the family to rest. Generally, males nomads live on the left side while females on the right.
Although the facilities in the nomad tent are extremely basic, there are areas for cooking and for praying.
In this video, we are going to show you a real tent house of a local Tibetan nomad family. Come with us to take a look at the wisdom preserved from the ancient Tibetan nomads.
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Life Among the Tibetan Nomadic Yak Herders
In the shadow of the Himalayas lies a hidden gateway to the Tibetan World, where you can still sneak in and live with nomads who practice the old ways beneath the snow-capped peaks. If you dare.
Looking for an adventure? Patru was born in these mountains and raised his family there. He Took me high up into the Himalayas to his childhood home – a secret valley beside an icy river, ringed by the Himalayan peaks. There we lived with the Tibetan nomadic yak herders, eating Tsampa bread and drinking yak butter tea. Fighting off rogue yaks, and churning butter and cheese. I learned to milk a yak and discovered how a tiny Tibetan woman can turn half-wild, sharp-horned beasts into docile pets.
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A Day in the Life of a Tibetan Nomad Family; How do Tibetan Wife and Husband Divide Their House Work
Hidden between snow mountains, there is a tent house of a nomadic family in the valley.
It was a day that I spent with the family, showing you how Tibetan nomads keep their traditional life when the world is modernizing all around them.
The day started with a simple breakfast. The handmade yak butter tea provides them with their daily energy needs.
After breakfast, the male nomad went out to graze yaks. The job seemed easy, but it was a long and boring time in the empty valley.
How did the man kill time during the long hours of grazing?
He carried snuff with him so he could relax during breaks. Sometimes, he played a solo game, such as throwing a stone. Just like a kid in the valley, he amused himself by finding natural toys from nature.
On the other side, the yaks were leisurely enjoying a fresh grass banquet.
The yak is very important to Tibetan nomads, not only does it provide them with milk to make their daily butter tea and yak cheese, but it is also the source of income. The yak’s fur is also the raw material for their tent house.
While the male nomad and yaks were away from home, the female nomad worked hard at home as well, like collecting yak dung for fuel, drying nettles as winter food for yaks and horses, looking after the elder and kids at home, and making lunches and dinners for the family.
This is a chance to see how the different roles that the male and the female nomads play in their family life, and see how modern Tibetan nomads still maintain the lifestyle of their ancestors after hundreds of years, living in harmony with nature in the land.
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Threads of Tradition: Reviving Yak Wool Weaving in Tibet I SLICE TRAVEL | FULL DOC
In Tibet, Dechen, a young Tibetan woman born in France and educated in the USA, has revitalised the weaving of yak’s wool.
Under its shaggy, black coat, the yak grows a soft and hard-to-collect down that keeps it warm through the Himalayan winter. In the spring, the khu is handpicked from the yak, which can be very dangerous.
In olden days, this precious wool was reserved for grand lamas and noble families. The knowledge associated with the traditional picking and spinning process was dying out.
Since 2006, with the help of her mother, Dechen has revived it. Luxury design houses can’t get enough of this unique textile. Dechen’s workshop employs 80 people. It is a three-day truck ride from Lhasa, at an altitude of 3,200 metres in the Zorge Rotoma region inhabited mostly by nomads.
Documentary : Weaving the World – Tibet (2017)
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Racing Giant Yaks in Mongolia
We heard about a festival in Mongolia where nomadic cowboys race giant long-horned Yaks across the open countryside so we decided to go check it out.
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VICE travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival. Mongolians revere the mighty yak for powering Genghis Khan's bloody rampage through Asia and Europe. And for their pretty hair. The festival showcased nature's fanciest cows in an array of yak-related activities including yak wrangling, yak rodeo, yak cheese-tasting, as well as the main event, a balls to the wall yak race across the steppe. The Kentucky Derby this is not.
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Tibetan Yak Meat That Melts in Your Mouth
If you don’t know anything about Tibetan food, locals in Lhasa will tell you to go to Makye Ame, where head chef Tenzin Dundrup whips up a tender yak meat dish that literally melts in your mouth.
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4,500 Meter VILLAGE FOOD - Heavenly Yamdrok Lake, Tibet!
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High Altitude Tibetan Food - Today we drove from Lhasa to Yamdrok Lake, where we had the honor to eat at a local family home. At 4,500 meters in elevation, there’s not a lot of plants that grow, and so our meal consisted of Tibetan barley, yak meat, a few green onions, and a radish soup. It was a hearty and warming meal, full of love, and a pleasure to learn more about Tibetan culture. #Tibet #YamdrokLake #streetfood #villagefood
Yamdrok Lake, Tibet - First we drove to Yamdrok Lake, and Kambala Pass (4,990 m (16,371 ft) for the viewpoint. The view of Yamdrok Lake for the first time was breathtaking. It’s a sacred lake in Tibet, and the colors of the lake look different depending on season, time of day, or even where you see the lake from. The actual bottom of the lake, on the shore is more like 4,500 Meters in Elevation.
High Elevation Tibetan Food - Tsampa (roasted barley) is the staple and main food of the Tibetan diet. It’s nutritious, and grows at a very high elevation. For lunch we had butter tea, barley dumplings with yak meat, radish soup with yak meat, and a type of momo bread which was formed into cone shapes, and fried and steamed in an iron griddle pan. The entire meal was simple, but delicious and very hearty and warming - mainly carbs, and yak. The entire village and setting next to Yamdrok Lake made it even more spectacular.
Karola Glacier View - Finally to end this day in Tibet, we continued to Karola Glacier, passing a section that was almost 5,200 meters in elevation. Highest elevation I’ve been to, and the entire drive was unbelievably beautiful.
An amazing day, great people, delicious food, and heavenly scenery of Yamdrok Lake.
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September 2021, Here lies the holy mountain by the secret lake. This is the gate to the south Daguo Mountain. This is where we herd out sheep, 30 km from Banei Village at a valley between two mountains. Three of us lived here herding the sheep. A usual morning with unusual incidences. Later in the morning, people from the village down the hill come to our place to collect sheep dung. This video captures rare glimpses of herdsmen's life by the Himalayas deep in Northern Tibet, people's way of living as social activity, their general psychology and values, understanding of things, and of each other.
When back to Shanghai in 2019, I had a second same surgery. One month after the surgery, I set out again for Tibet and continued my adventures. After 11 months, I returned to Singapore right before the covid-19 lockdown. Here are my new set of videos made recently after a few months of cleaning up huge trove of raw footage. Editing again proves another valuable occasion when I see the true nature of these beautiful people. Once more, I feel deeply that it is for them that I circle the mountain and water and wander in the plateau for all these years ...
Reviving the QUEEN of wools | WIDE | FULL DOCUMENTARY
In Tibet, Dechen, a young Tibetan woman born in France and educated in the USA, has revitalized the weaving of yak’s wool.
Under its shaggy, black coat, the yak grows a soft and hard-to-collect down that keeps it warm through the Himalayan winter. In the spring, the khu is handpicked from the yak, which can be very dangerous.
In the older days, this precious wool was reserved for grand lamas and noble families. The knowledge associated with the traditional picking and spinning process was dying out.
But since 2006, with the help of her mother, Dechen has revived it. Now, luxury design houses can’t get enough of this unique textile.
From the film: Weaving the world - Tibet
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■ HIMALAYA, KYANJIN GUMPA: Surviving the brutal conditions of the Himalayan mountains is no joke. But the many peoples that call these mountains home; Sherpas, Tamangs and Tibetans just to name a few, have adapted fairly well. The ox looking animal known as the Yak is key to their adaption.
Yak bulls and cows gives these mountain dwelling people milk, fur, meat, insulation, cement and also fuel! Yes, you heard right. Yak dung is used as fire-wood; fueling stoves and warm meals in communities living way above the tree-line.
Kyanjin Gumpa, which sits at 4000m above sea level at the end of Nepal's Langtang valley, actually do have a little forest growing on a mountain nearby. Exactly how, given that the mountainside the town is built on is completely treeless, I never got a proper answer to. I did notice some small streams coming down the mountain the forest grows on though, meaning it's probably perpetually naturally irrigated.
The people living in Kyanjin Gumpa hence don't have to solely rely on Yak dung for all their heat and cooking needs. But they do use it to supplement their fires, which regardless of which fuel is being burnt, are incredibly labor intensive to maintain.
Just how labor intensive exactly? Well you be the judge as I become a Himalayan Yak Dung Hunter for a day.... ????
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Making of Bio fuel - Traditional energy conservation
The use of cow-or buffalo dung cakes, are a rural tradition in India. They are a sustainable fuel that form part and parcel of the traditional way of village life in India.These cow dung or cow faeces is called “gobar” in India. They are used extensively for fuel in many parts of the country. The village women would collect the faeces excreted from the bovine species (cows, bulls or buffalo) and they would be mixed with hay as seen in the picture and made into dough. They would then be flattened and stuck on a wall mostly the walls of the clay huts or even on the ground to dry.After they have dried out, they would be scrapped of the walls and stored in a dry place and used all year round for cooking. The final product is called “goitha”, think of it as “dunk cakes”.
You can’t Imagine what are Pretty Tibetan Women Doing? ( Tibetan Fuel Making by Using the Yak Dung )
Today, I’m going to take you to have a special experience. While women of other ethnic groups are busy spinning and crafting, what are the nomadic women in Tibet doing? Well, they are collecting yak dungs.
It looks like an unpleasant job, but the pretty woman of the Tibetan nomadic family doesn’t think so. On the contrary, the fuel gathered by her own hands is the most precious fuel to them.
Because there isn’t much wood in Tibet Plateau, the yak dung is the best fuel in the nomadic area, even in the whole Tibet.
In fact, it stays in the fire much longer than wood and can keep the house warm at such a high altitude.
About 10 thousand pieces of this yak dung fuel can last a family for two and a half months in the nomadic area.
To make the dried yak dung fuel, the hostess first collects the fresh yak dungs and then made them into pieces with a hole in the center so that the dried yak dung can be stored easily.
When the pieces of yak dungs are completely dried, they can be used as the free bio-fuel in this plateau without spending a penny.
Repeating this work every day, the beautiful nomadic woman made the bovine waste products the most precious thing for the family.
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Yak Dung Walls
Fresh Yak paddies were stuck to the side of several houses in the old part of Litang.
Cooking on yak dung patty fire and preparing yak wool yarn: Rural life in Spiti
In a hut in a high altitude village in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, watch these locals cook on a clay chulha fired by yak dung patties and prepare yarn with yak wool.
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The Dying Art of Making Tibetan Cheese
In Qinghai, China, Tibetan farmers and nomads are still relying on a traditional source of nutrition and protein for survival: yak milk.
Zeji, a Tibetan farmer, takes us through her daily routine of milking and herding yaks, and producing Tibetan cheese in an old-school way that’s quickly becoming a dying art.
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A Nomad Family in The Ruo Er Gai Grassland of Tibet
The nomads of the Eastern Tibet Plateau still live off the land, traveling with their yaks and black yak wool tents from summer home to winter home and back again. Yak dung (or poop) is formed into yak patties and used for fuel. This nomad Mother used her bare hands to pop additional yak patties in the fire when needed and move the burning coals around. Spinning yak fur, milking yaks...a very hard life.
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Nepal: Yaks and Naks of the Himalayas.
Everything you wanted to know about yaks. During an eleven day Everest basecamp trek we took some extra time to learn about and shoot a video on yaks. Pardon the yak bells, they were everywhere!
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Yak herders of Tibet
Making butter in Tibet. Churned 600 times by hand, the yak butter is made from milk that's collected at 2.30am, 11am and 7.30pm. Two women - Sonam Shudruh, 19 and her mother, Namdruh, are responsible for milking and herding the family's 50 yaks, collecting water by hand, making the butter, cheese and yoghurt, collecting and making the dung into fuel cakes, and weaving the yak hair into cloth and rope. And I thought I worked hard. Namdruh is singing to count the number of churns she's done.