In the last week, we have yet again heard news of more self-immolation’s inside Tibet, Tenzin Wangmo (20yrs old) and Norbu Dramdul (19yrs old). It is easy to become depressed by all the sad news, however, Jamyang Norbu la’s right. Tibetans inside are calling us to action and we must not let them down.
[Guest post by Tenzin Paksam. College for Higher Tibetan Studies Sarah, India] Last Wednesday, Lhakar was observed at Sarah, College for Higher Tibetan Studies. My friend, Pema Namgyal from Amdo, wore the complete… Continue reading
[“Tribute to the martyrs” Guest post by Tenzin Norzin. College for Higher Tibetan Studies Sarah] ༼ རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་ཚོར་གུས་དུད་ཞུ། ༽ ཉིན་ཆར་བྱུང་དང་འབྱུང་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་ནང་གི་དོན་རྐྱེན་ཡ་ང་དེ་དག་ཐོས་འཕྲལ་བདག་གི་སེམས་པ་ཚ་ཤུར་ཤུར་དང་ལྷན་དུ་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང་སྤོབས་པའི་ཚོར་སྣང་འདྲེས་མ་ཞིག་གིས་བཟུང་སོང་། ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ནས་བལྟས་ན་དལ་འབྱོར་མི་ལུས་ཀྱི་གྱོང་གུད་ཡིན་པས་ཕངས་སེམས་ངང་གིས་སླེབས་ཆོག … Continue reading
[Guest post by Lhakyi] Living in a multicultural area in America you would think I’d get swallowed up by the different cultures and languages surrounding me. Well you would be wrong! I knew… Continue reading
My thoughts of the possible meaning/s behind “Hoarding” by some of our elders in our community. I remember sometime back, a Tibetan girl was telling me how the older Tibetans, the pola’s… Continue reading
[Guest Post by Strangers] We, Strangers, would like to say that we are very honored to be included in this collection of Tibetan transmissions from across the world. We’re leaving it up to… Continue reading
[Guest post by Tenzin Nio] The wall, as black as midnight and with painstakingly delicate gold details, foretold ancient wisdoms of the divine beings. Fierce looking wrathful deities rose out of their flames… Continue reading
For Lhakar (a lil late, better late then never right?). I decided to have a chat session with my friend in བོད་ཡིག་ (Tibetan) hope you guys enjoy the content. Me: སྐྱག་ཙ་ར་ Friend: ག་རེ་ Me: ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ Friend: ཇོག་མིན་འདུག་… Continue reading
© 2012 Dlo08 I have just started my MA program in Cultural Anthropology this past week. Things are going well and I am excited for what awaits. In one of my classes, my… Continue reading
From the book Arrested Histories: Tibet, The CIA, And Memories Of A Forgotten War by Carole McGranahan [Everything (except for the text written in brackets) written in this post including the tittle of… Continue reading
