A Northwest Yunnan Tibetan Villages Ceremony Symbolizes

This article is a field study on rites of a Tibetan village in the northwest of Yunnan. Adopting the symbolism analysis on the basis of functionalism, through the thick description on Ka villagers'daily ritual life and classification system, I analyze analysis the circular philosophy of Ka villagers based on "gnas skor" and everyday life whose boundary of sacred and secular is blurry. Although under the logic of samsara thought in Buddhism, the rite of mountain gnas skor, as the projection and amplification of daily ceremony and a collection of individual ceremony, not only reflects the impact of "eternity" hankering and "this life" demands——the Khawakarpo Lartse challenges the position of the Buddha——but also a symbol of "liminal phase" in girls' initiation rite and "Liminoid phase" of weakening structure in pilgrimage rite. All above are closely related to merits and virtues brought by rites.This perspective, from daily ritual life to analysis of the rite of mountain gnas skor and then returning to daily ritual life, may be able to understand more profoundly on an ordinary Tibetan people's spiritual world during transition of Chinese society. This text, in some extent, also trys to reflect the author's reflection on popular ideas such as "Tibetan think more of eternity than this life", and presents the consistent mission of the anthropology on correcting the bias.