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Futility of contorting reality: China’s propaganda war on Tibet

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(Guest post by Tsering Tsomo, Executive Director of Tibetan Center for Human Rights & Democracy) A black stone soaked in the river cannot be washed white. A white stone placed under the sun… Continue reading →

TIBETAN FILM MAKING – AN ALTERNATIVE WINDOW INTO TIBET

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I recall the winter when I rushed to the office at the Lower TCV School to purchase a copy of ‘CIA: Shadow Circus in Tibet’. It was the closure of the academic year… Continue reading →

WHEN THE BUDDHA STOPS SMILING

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Picture from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8914083@N02/ I never quite understood and to some extent, even now, why most of the Japanese tourists that I have come across could not do without a camera and the restless… Continue reading →

Lhakar beyond Wednesdays in Kham

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As I now googled for different time zones, I noticed that, if i was in New York, i still have 15 mins worth of time left before this Wednesday comes to a closure… Continue reading →

When I saw number plates in Tibetan

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I recall how the movie Matrix comes at a turning point after Morpheus challenges Neo with a very difficult choice. Well.. I didn’t quite require that level of intricacy nor did I have… Continue reading →

ལྷག་དཀར་གྱི་གཞས་གསུམ། Three Lhakar Songs

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Guest Post by Bhuchung D Sonam There are many Tibets today – the occupied Tibet, the Tibet in exile, the Tibet in our hearts, the Tibet in transition and the online Tibet. All… Continue reading →

3-Feet-Tall Border

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After a late night of final discussion and planning, my alarm set off at 6 the next morning. With thrill running all over, I effortlessly slipped into my chuba and prepared myself for… Continue reading →

My Tibetanness

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Martyr Tsewang Norbu la protesting by setting himself ablaze in the town market of Kham Tawu, Tibet I vividly remember, almost a week ago, when my friend Lodoe Laura & Daniel at the final leg of their… Continue reading →

འ་ཙི་བུ་མོ་ལགས།

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[Guest entry by Bhuchung D. Sonam *] ང་ཡི་ཡིད་དབང་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་འཕྲོག ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་ང་ལ་མིག་མི་བལྟ། ད་ནི་བྱེད་ཐབས་གཞན་མི་འདུག ཆང་རག་མ་འཐུང་རང་འཐུང་རེད། ཤེལ་དམ་གཅིག་གིས་ར་མ་ཟི། ཤེལ་དམ་གཉིས་པས་ར་མ་ཟི། ཤེལ་དམ་གསུམ་པ་འཐུང་པས་ན། སྐྱུགས་པ་གཡས་དང་གཡོན་ལ་ཤོར། སང་ཉིན་ཞོགས་པ་ཡར་ལང་དུས། ཡང་བསྐྱར་ཁྱེད་རང་སེམས་ལ་འཁོར། བུ་ངའི་སྙིང་རླུང་སྟོད་ལ་འཚང་། ང་དང་ཨ་རག་གྲོགས་སུ་གྱུར། ཉིན་མཚན་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲན་རྒྱུ་གཅིག བུ་ངའི་སྙིང་གི་ཟེའུ་འབྲུ་ཁྱེད། འོ་ཙི་འོ་ཙི་སྙིང་སྡུག་ལགས། ཐེང་གཅིག་ང་ལ་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང། *The author is a poet and a writer based in… Continue reading →

‘Thank you Communist Party of China’

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[Guest entry by Bhuchung D. Sonam *] As a kid growing up in Tibet under China, the first song that I learned was The East Is Red. It was one of the most… Continue reading →