Honoring Lhakar on Losar
Losar Tashi Delek! Losar Tashi Delek to everyone from the Lhakar Diaries family! Today for Losar in addition to wishing all of our readers a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, we would like… Continue reading
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My Meeting With UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne By Pema Yoko
Today on this historic Lhakar, I want to share with you my recent activities for Tibet. On Monday, January 30, 2012, I met with UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne alongside representatives of the… Continue reading
Visualizing Lhakar
A few weeks ago we came across this amazing piece of calligraphy by Tsering Norbu , inspired by Lhakar. It is so great to see folks responding with their own creativity to show… Continue reading
Lhakar Winter Reading List
Happy New Year to all our readers from the Lhakar Diaries family! We hope you’re all keeping warm wherever you are, hopefully with some kind of hot beverage, curled up with a good… Continue reading
Tibet in Brooklyn
Last week for Lhakar we visited Jackson Heights, this week we take you to Brooklyn, NY. Yup, there’s a Tibetan restaurant in Cortelyou, Brooklyn. I bet most of you didn’t know you could… Continue reading
Our Day (Shopping) in New York’s Little Tibet
I, Pema Yoko, am right now visiting New York, a place where the Tibetan community is booming and bustling. It is also the home of SFT head quarters, and where many of my… Continue reading
Our Day (Eating) in New York’s Little Tibet
For Lhakar NYCYak, Pemayoko, and I (dlo08) decided to celebrate Lhakar by eating Tibetan lunch and dinner at Tibetan-owned restaurants. First Stop: Jackson Heights Roosevelt Ave., New York, NY. Pemayoko and I were… Continue reading
A man of many firsts
Guest post by Dechen Pemba Dr Tsewang Yishey Pemba, who has died aged 79, was the first Tibetan to be trained in western medicine, and served as consultant physician to Bhutan’s royal family.… Continue reading
Thoughts on the Recent Self-Immolations by Students at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, India
༄༅།། རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་དཔའ་མོ་རྣམ་པར་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་བསྐྱེད་དང་རྗེས་དྲན་ཆེད། ས་རཱ་མཐོ་སློབ་ཀྱི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཚོགས་པའི་ངོས་ནས། མཐོ་སློབ་གང་དེར་མར་མེ་མཆོད་འབུལ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་འགའི་ཐོག་ཐོལ་བྱུང་རྩོམ་ཡིག་གི་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ཞིག་ཀྱང་སྤེལ་ཡོད་པ་ལས། འདིར་རྩོམ་ལེགས་གྲས་སྐོར་ཅིག་བཀོད་ཡོད། The Tibetan Language Group of Sarah College organized a candle-light vigil and essay-writing session to show solidarity to the Tibetan martyrs for their sacrifice. Below are some… Continue reading
Made in Tibet
brothers and sisters, we don’t know if you can hear us, but we hope you’ll receive this message…