Countdown
No, not that awesome Beyonce song that totally rips off Audrey Hepburn’s boho dance in Funny Face and kinda looks like a tricked out Gap commercial, I’m talking about an actual countdown to something super… Read More
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Upholding the Pledge: Lhakar in 2013
Happy 2013 to all our readers out there! Now that the holidays are over it’s back to work here at LD. After a long and busy holiday I thought what better way to… Read More
Calling All Tsampa Eaters!
Karma Emchi, better known as Shapaley, released his latest video today on Lhakar and within a just few hours “Tsampa“ became another massive hit for the Swiss based rapper. “Tsampa” directed by Tenzin Wangchuk… Read More
Radiohead’s Unofficial Lhakar Pledge…and Maybe Bjork’s
Earlier this week I landed in London and my on very first night out I got to see one of my favorite bands of all time… Radiohead!! I was super excited. The last… Read More
Learning Tibetan on Lhakar: Episode Four
This week I wanted to share a video and some photos from my visit to the Sambhota Day School in Gankyi to show how these awesome young students observe Lhakar every Wednesday. From the… Read More
Lhakar at Sarah College ས་རཱ་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་ལ་ལྷག་དཀར་སྲུང་རྩི་བྱེད་པ།
Last week for Lhakar I joined three other contributors from Lhakar Diaries, Dorjee Tseten, Pema Yoko and Dawa L. along with the Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth, Dechen Pemba to talk about… Read More
“Yak Horns,” TibetWrites Launches New Book by Bhuchung D. Sonam
Last Sunday, I took a break from the monsoon rains and sought refuge at Jimmy’s Italian restaurant where a book launch was being held in the somehow-always-busy town of Mcleod Ganj. The launch… Read More
Learning Tibetan on Lhakar: Episode Two (and a Meeting for Rangzen)
Above is the second installment of our video series in Dharamsala, including a peek into a meeting of the world’s leading Rangzen warriors battling for Tibetan Independence. If you haven’t seen the video for the… Read More
Ka, Kha, Ga, Nga, Learning Tibetan on Lhakar: Episode One
Hopefully by the time I post this, it will still be Lhakar somewhere in the world. I’ve been struggling all day with power cuts and the sporadic internet of Incredible India so it’s… Read More
Heroes, Martyrs and Mountain Phoenix: Thoughts on Self-Immolation and Suicide
“Distancing ourselves clearly from self-immolation as a political method is not a betrayal of our sacrificing Tibetan brothers and sisters. Not distancing ourselves means approval and indirect encouragement of a method that is… Read More
