Renewing my Lhakar Pledge
Last year, Students for a Free Tibet came out with a new campaign called the Lhakar Pledge where they asked people to make a pledge to do something for Tibet every Wednesday (how… Continue reading
Last year, Students for a Free Tibet came out with a new campaign called the Lhakar Pledge where they asked people to make a pledge to do something for Tibet every Wednesday (how… Continue reading
Today on Lhakar I am re-uploading a track some of you may have already heard. I am doing this because 1) I haven’t had time to do a video 2) because its still… Continue reading
Today I visited my new local Tibetan restaurant in South East London. I think it is very important to support our local Tibetan businesses as well as empower our community to grow stronger.… Continue reading
Last week I began my post by declaring my gross misconceptions about Tibetan literature. And while, being once unaware that my country has one of the great literary traditions of Asia – one… Continue reading
[Guest entry by Tenzin Nio] ‘Like the tsampa ritual my grandmother performs on auspicious days, hundreds of identities scattered like barley grains by the wind to every corner of the world’. A born… Continue reading
Sang-sol, also known as incense offering, is a culture practised over thousands of years by Tibetans across Tibet. It is not only an individual but a national custom where people perform the ceremony… Continue reading
I never quite understood what it really meant to celebrate His Holiness’s birthday; it was a special day with sang-sol (incense offering) in the morning served with dresi (sweet rice mixed with butter… Continue reading
We’re thrilled to learn that Lhakar Diaries is already making waves. Not only have we already had almost 1,000 visitors to our blog in just 18 hours, China Digital Times, ‘a bilingual news… Continue reading
…for the 76th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama! it is extremely hard trying to buy anything that is NOT ‘made in china’ these days! especially something as cool as these super… Continue reading