White pagodas in Tar Monastery, photo taken by Zhang Xiaoping, CTIC

Forum delegates are still gasping in admiration to the butter sculptures after walking out of the butter sculpture hall, photo taken by Zhang Xiaoping, CTIC.

Foreign delegates are taking photos of Tar Monastery, photo taken by Sophia Zhang, CTIC.

Commentator is introducing the Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Museum in English, photo taken by Sophia Zhang, CTIC.

October 12, parts of attendees of the first China Tibetan Culture Forum arrived in Xining from Beijing by air and started their 7-day investigation in Qinghai and Tibet.

The delegates visited Tar Monastery firstly, and were shocked by the three unique arts of this over 600 years old monastery: butter sculpture, duixiu (a kind of thangka painting) and fresco. Then they went to the Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Museum.

The Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Museum was established in this September. More than 2,000 kinds of exemplars on animal, plants and mineral and 80 Tibetan medical maps are displayed in the museum. What most marvelous is the giant thangka painting showing Tibetan culture and art. This huge work is 600 meters in length and costs 4 months and 27 veteran painters to finish.

The delegation has arrived in Lhasa on October 13. Please pay attention to the follow-up reports presented by China Tibet Information Center (CTIC).