The following is a short interview I did with Phayul Media, the popular Tibetan news platform based in Dharamsala, India, in the summer of 2022 (they published it a year later in 2023).… Continue reading
I would like to share how Tibetans and Supporters shamed Hu Jintao on his recent visit to India on BRICS conference. Hu Jintao faces huge protest by Tibetans where ever he went and the… Continue reading
I am currently taking a class on Tibetan women visionaries at Columbia. In all my years taking Tibetan studies classes, I have never run into one focused solely on women, so I was… Continue reading
Tenzin Wangchuk, MC name Exiled Prophet, shares his journey of growing up in New York and discovering Tibet through hip hop. He is the co-founder of Mind of a Monk, a Tibetan music… Continue reading
We’d like to pay our respect and prayers to Jamphel Yeshi who passed away last night. Tibetans in India are doing everything they can to carry his and those insides, voices to Hu… Continue reading
With the intensifying crackdown inside Tibet right now, it can sometimes be difficult to stay positive/cheerful about Tibet’s situation. But today was a slap-in-the-face-“stay-cool-goddammit!” kind of day. With the nomination by an Ontario… Continue reading
Dorjee Tseten shares a powerful Lhakar moment observed by 2000 Tibetan students in Dharamsala and a creative political theatre by organized by SFT India calling on the UN to take action for Tibet.… Continue reading
By the Young Turquoise Bee This week my sister and I decided to honor Lhakar a few days early. We joined a record number of Tibetan-Americans and supporters in Washington, DC for the 4th… Continue reading
Self-immolations in Tibet Show No Sign of Slowing On March 10th, the Los Angeles Times ran an interesting article profiling some of the Tibetans who have recently self immolated in Tibet. We thought it would… Continue reading
This morning I saw the news regarding the bombing that took place in Derge. According to the reports, a 32 year old man named Tashi bombed the government building that was “newly constructed to allow station officials to watch over residents of Rekpa and Wapa villages, angering the residents, according to Ngawang Sangpo, a Tibetan with contacts in the area.”
The first time I was ever fully immersed in a Tibetan community was in Bloomington, Indiana at a Tibetan Youth Cultural Camp organized by the Office of Tibet. I was fifteen years old,… Continue reading
