Former serf looks back on 60 years of improvement in Tibet

Dawa was drinking butter tea and enjoying the sunshine in a glass-enclosed extension to her living room as she listened to her granddaughter, Tenzin Drolkar, practice her dhanyan, a six-stringed Tibetan guitar.

The 82-year-old's son, Phuntsok, was teaching his young niece how to play it, and the room was filled with sunshine, laughter and music.

Dawa, who lives in Khezang village, Lhokha, in the Tibet autonomous region, is one of the few former Tibetan serfs still alive today, according to Tibet Daily.