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Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet: The Story of Tara

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In this episode, I tell the story of Tara (Zhang Yadi), a brave Chinese activist for Tibet facing severe political charges that could see her imprisoned for many years, in a rare case… Continue reading

How China Uses the “Visa as Bait” Strategy to Silence Tibetans

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China’s “visa as bait” strategy is an insidious tool of transnational repression, silencing Tibetans by weaponizing family reunions. Through powerful testimonies and expert insights, we reveal how the Chinese Communist Party turns visa… Continue reading

Battle for Tibet’s Future: China Closes Acclaimed Tibetan Private School

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In Episode 8 of Tibet Unlocked, Pema Yoko and Tibetan education expert Dr. Gyal Lo discuss the forced closure of one of the most influential Tibetan-run private schools in Tibet by Chinese authorities… Continue reading

The Untold Story of Tibetan Students in the 1989 Tiananmen Movement

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June 4, 2024, marks 35 years since the monumental protests by Chinese students and citizens demanding freedom and democracy – a powerful moment of hope and inspiration brutally crushed by the Chinese government,… Continue reading

Nyima Lhamo’s Journey for Justice

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Nyima Lhamo’s journey, and her quest for justice for her uncle who was wrongly imprisoned by China, sheds light on the many ways China tries to control and intimidate Tibetans, including through the… Continue reading

Ongoing Lhakar Pledge

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Woahh! Its been about 4 to 5 months since my last Lhakar post, apologies! I dont have any new cooking videos right now, as its been pretty hectic after getting back from India.… Continue reading

kilo ༧༨།

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བདུན་ཕྲག་ དང་པོ་ ལ་ ང་ རྒྱ་གར་ སླེབས་ ཡིན་ ང་ མེན་ཁང་ པྱིན་ ཡིན་ དེ་དུས་ ང་ kilo ༧༨་ རེད་ འདུག་ ཟླ་བ་ གཉིས་ རྗེས་ལ་ ང་ kilo ༧༨་ གཅིག་པ་ རེད་ འདུག་ དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ། འདི་ གང་འདྲས་ རེད། ཟླ་བ དང་པོ་ ང་… Continue reading

ཇོ་ལ་ vs ལྡོ་ཕད་

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དེ་རིང་ ང་ ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ ལ་ ཡོད་ འདེའི་ གནམ་ཤིས་ སྐྱིད་པོ་ འདུག་ ཁ་ལག་ ཡག་པོ འདུག་ དང་ ངས་ ཉལ་གྲི ཆེན་པོ་ འདུག་ ཚང་མ་ སྐྱིད་པོ་ འདུག་། ཧིཧིཧིཧི་  ཁ་སང་ གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ ང་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ནས་ འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ ལ་ སླེབས་ པ་ ཡིན་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ནས་… Continue reading

ངས་ ལྷག་དཀར་ དམ་བཅའ།

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ང་ བོད་ པ་ དང་ ཉི་ཧོང་ ཡིན། ང་ དབྱིན་ཡུལ་ ལ་ སྐྱེས་ པ་ རེད། ང་ བོད་ རང་བཙན་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ ཙོ་གས་པ་ ལས་ཀ་ བྱད་ ཡིན་ ཡིན་ནའང་ ད་ལྷ་ ང་ རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ་ ལ་  བོད་ཡིག་ དང་ བོད་ཀྱི་ སྦྱང་ ཀྱི་ ཡོད། ང་ བདུན་ཕྲག་… Continue reading

Pema Yoko in Sikkim

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The history of Sikkim begins with the lepchas. Eventually there was the establishment of a Tibetan kingdom, Chogyal in the 17th century [wikipedia]. From 1642 to 1975, Sikkim was ruled by the Namgyal… Continue reading