An Essay on the Tibetan's Intangible Cultural Heritage

The purpose of this writing is to examine China’s cultural policy towardTibet today through the national intangible cultural heritages, which wereselected over the 1st~3rd time. The current national intangible cultural heritagesof Tibet include 132 pieces, which are the largest among ethnic groups withinChina except Han people(漢族). About 60 years earlier, China divided territoryand ethnic group in order to weaken Tibetan integrity and govern efficientlywhile combining Tibet forcibly. However, a large quantity of intangible culturalheritages are rather showing an outcome of restoring vast zone and ethnicgroup prior to amalgamation. Also, expanding this leads to revealing huge‘Tibetan cultural zone,’ which is tied to a common denominator calledBuddhism. This influence of Tibetan Buddhism can be said to be a part towhich China has paid sharp attention even so far. A key for grasping whetherthe recent work of selecting intangible cultural heritage is cultural protection orcultural annihilation depends, above all, on whether the Chinese government isbeing made the foundation by the mind of respecting Tibetan religion andculture. Given aiming to integrate Tibet as a part of the great-power chauvinismlike before, this will inevitably flow into powerful Cultural Extinction(Control)more than any other time.