Last week for Lhakar I joined three other contributors from Lhakar Diaries, Dorjee Tseten, Pema Yoko and Dawa L. along with the Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth, Dechen Pemba to talk about… Continue reading
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
Below is a guest post by Tenzin Haines-Wangda from Ottawa, Canada, on how she’s been able to teach Tibet through the art of dance. — I attended an arts high school in Ottawa, Ontario… Continue reading
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
So the last few days, I’ve discovered a few cool tools/services that are being offered to help preserve the Tibetan language. Earlier this week, I was browsing Facebook, when I saw a photo… Continue reading
Last Sunday, I took a break from the monsoon rains and sought refuge at Jimmy’s Italian restaurant where a book launch was being held in the somehow-always-busy town of Mcleod Ganj. The launch… Continue reading
On His Holiness 77th birthday SFT-India organised a concert with the theme of ‘Come Home Your Holiness’. Dharamsala monsoon is always unpredictable and our fingers were crossed tight that day as we decided… Continue reading
This past weekend, July 4th-July 8th, an estimated sixty high school and college students of Tibetan, Kalmyk-Mongolian, and Himalayan descent came from all over North America to attend a Buddhism Conference organized by the… Continue reading
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
It is just past three in the middle of the night in Brooklyn. In Lhasa, the clocks read the same as here, but it is afternoon. This basic fact, of how it can… Continue reading
