1 sentence in 1 hour
Yes, it did take me close to an hour trying to write/type one sentence in Tibetan on my laptop. It’s not the most glamorous or exciting of the Lhakar actions, but it was… Continue reading
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Hello?…. Tashi Delekkk!!!
I can usually expect at least one phone call to start like that every Wednesday. About a month or so ago, somehow my friend Dekyi signed ME up for her Lhakar pledge. I… Continue reading
Lhakar on HH Birthday..
Tibet I care, a movement consisting of young Tibetan volunteers organized ‘Tibet Games’ to promote Lhakar (white Wednesday) on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday yesterday. It was the 76th birthday of the… Continue reading
Lhakar,a day of action!!
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am a… Continue reading
Demystifying Tibetan vocabularies used by His Holiness
[Update] During Central Tibetan Administrations inauguration of Lobsang Sangay on Aug. 8th, 2011; there were some new Tibetan words used by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. I was able to get help from… Continue reading
New Pledges by New Warriors.
Today is the end of SFT’s one week Action camp held in Germany, Europe. I’ve been to at least three or four action camps in Europe and America where I have received practical… Continue reading
Climbing Trees with My (Incredible, Giggling, Modest) Heroes
I’ve just spent the last week training climbing in the German countryside. Among the student participants were dozens of activists from all across Europe and the world. But because I was the only… Continue reading
The Hills Have Eyes… errr Ears… and Mouths
This week’s Lhakar Diaries post stems from a very odd dream I had recently which led me to think about my past life. I won’t write what happened in the dream, but I… Continue reading
འ་ཙི་བུ་མོ་ལགས།
[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
Overprotected? Never!
This past weekend, I went home to visit the family, and my Amala gave me this little trinket to attach to the ‘tsemdhue’ around my neck (a red string which is supposed to… Continue reading