The English word "yak" is a loan originating from Tibetan: གཡག་
The teas are such most of the diet that, until lately "every Tibetan owned a por pa or tea bowl," writes Rupert Faulkner, a writer and senior curator in the Victoria and Albert Museum working in london, in the book Tea East & West. He adds the bowls even snugly squeeze into the pocket from …
[Photograph: Max Falkowitz] If I needed to select one dish because the culinary ambassador of Tibetan cuisine, it might be the extremely popular dumplings referred to as momo. Actually, momo are extremely central to Tibetan popular culture that there are a rap song extolling their benefits. "They know momo," a youthful Tibetan lady who I …
Based on Selena Ahmed, an ethnobotanist who authored a magazine known as Tea Horse Road about China’s different teas, in Tibetan medicine, the mixture of butter and teas are considered to provide greater mind-body balance than either item individually. Per Ahmed, the intake of pu-erh tea creates an interior balance and strengthens our body’s bloodstream, …