scholarly journals A Summary of Studies on Bon and Its Relationship with Buddhism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangdrag Tsering ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multiple Languages

Bon Religion is the original religion of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Today there are still Bon beliefs or cultural phenomena influenced by Bon Religion in areas where Tibetans live. This is an important content of Tibetology research today. Predecessors’ research on Bon Religion mainly focused on three major issues: the birth of Bon Religion, the historical staging of Bon Religion, and the relationship between Buddhism and Ben religion. Many results have been achieved. However, these are far from enough in terms of the research value of Bon Religion itself. The research on the time and place of the birth of Bon Religion has not yet been concluded. The main results are concentrated on the research of macroscopic issues, and the research on specific issues is insufficient. In response to these issues, researchers should pay attention to the re-discussion of existing results, use the method of combining literature and field investigations to pay more attention to specific regional issues, and at the same time strengthen the use of multiple languages.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Thaw Slump-Derived Thermokarst in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using Satellite SAR Interferometry

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Bo Hu ◽  
Yang Wu ◽  
Xingfu Zhang ◽  
Bing Yang ◽  
Junyu Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Layer ◽  
External Disturbance ◽  
Sar Interferometry ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Permafrost Degradation ◽  
Slope Failures ◽  
Alos Palsar ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau ◽  
Intrinsic Dynamic

Thaw slumps are well-developed within a 10 km wide zone along the Qinghai-Tibet engineering corridor, especially along the Qinghai-Tibet highway and railway. Previous studies have focused on thaw slump instability such as its origin development, headwall retrogression rate, failure scale, and thermal regime, yet the intrinsic dynamic process of surface movement is relatively less known. In this study, we used InSAR based on the L-band ALOS PALSAR images acquired from January 2007 to October 2010 to investigate the distribution of thaw-induced slope failures containing retrogressive thaw slumps and active layer detachment failures along the Qinghai-Tibet highway (QTH). Our InSAR analysis reveals that the maximum annual average sedimentation rates are even up to -35 mm·yr−1 in the slope direction to the K3035 thaw slump, and the K3035W active layer detachment failure developed on the west side of K3035. The distribution, failure extent, and stability of the slope failures obtained by our InSAR analysis all agree well with the field investigations. Our study illustrates that InSAR is an effective tool for studying the distribution and processes of the thaw slump-derived thermokarst and provides useful references for evaluating permafrost degradation in response to climate warming and external disturbance on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.

scholarly journals The Ecosystem Effects of Sand-Binding Shrub Hippophae rhamnoides in Alpine Semi-Arid Desert in the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Lihui Tian ◽  
Wangyang Wu ◽  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Dengshan Zhang ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Hippophae Rhamnoides ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Qinghai Lake ◽  
Hippophaë Rhamnoides ◽  
Ecosystem Effects ◽  
Aeolian Activity ◽  
Arid Desert ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau ◽  
The Relationship

The planting of sand-binding vegetation in the Qinghai Lake watershed at the northeastern edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau began in 1980. For this paper, we took the desert on the eastern shore of Qinghai Lake as the study area. We analyzed a variety of aged Hippophae rhamnoides communities and aeolian activities, and we discuss the relationship between them. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) With an increasing number of binding years, the species composition became more abundant, natural vegetation began to recover, and biodiversity increased year by year. At the same time, plant height, canopy width, and community coverage increased, but H. rhamnoides coverage was reduced to 36.70% as coverage of Artemisia desertorum increased to 25.67% after 10 years of fixing. The biomass of H. rhamnoides increased significantly, especially the underground biomass. For example, the biomass of area 15a was about 10 to 30 times that of area 1a. (2) Plants are a useful obstacle to aeolian activity. The presence of plants reduced the wind flow in the upper parts of the plants, but it did not have obvious regular characteristics. The longer the fixation term, the lower the surface sediment transport. It is significant that the sediment transport amount in winter was four times that in the summer. After 15 years of binding, H. rhamnoides grows well, and the community is still stable in the study area.

scholarly journals The relationship between soil physical properties and alpine plant diversity on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Tang ◽  
Shikui Dong ◽  
Shiliang Liu ◽  
Xuexia Wang ◽  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Soil Physical Properties ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Alpine Plant ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau ◽  
The Relationship
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