Tibetan Sherpa dancer keeping traditions alive

LHASA－Namkha, 57, enjoys dancing in front of her 7-month-old granddaughter, showing her traditional Sherpa dance moves.

"My oldest student is over 40, and the youngest is my granddaughter," Namkha said with a smile, adding that she hopes her granddaughter will also pass on traditional Sherpa dancing one day.

Living in Dinggye county's Zhentang township in the Tibet autonomous region, Namkha is an inheritor of the Zhentang Sherpa dance, a national intangible cultural heritage.