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
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
Yesterday on Lhakar, Tibetans in UK, including our very own Pema Yoko, went to lobby their representatives.at the Houses of Parliament. Tibetans and supporters call upon their elected government representatives to write and… Continue reading
*A special thank you to International Campaign for Tibet for highlighting these journalists in a recent e-mail, and for inspiring this post* A few years ago, when I was working as national director of Students… Continue reading
Check It Tibetan Rapper Karma Emchi WANTS YOU I’ve always been kind of ambivalent about the Tibetan electoral process. I mean, I hope I’m not the only one trying to wrap their head… Continue reading
Losar Tashi Delek! Losar Tashi Delek to everyone from the Lhakar Diaries family! Today for Losar in addition to wishing all of our readers a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, we would like… Continue reading
Losar and Lhakar Tashi Delek To All. In honor of Losar and Lhakar I am wearing my Tibetan chupa.
In response to my previous post, “The Significance of Naming or Terming,” Professor Elliot Sperling has offered a more in-depth look at this significance in the following article, originally published on Rangzen Alliance
Susan Sontag Animation: Regarding the Pain of Others from L Nordell on Vimeo. Susan Sontag’s animation, with its stark halting stop-motion images and its repetition of all that we (on the outside) cannot know… Continue reading
Today on this historic Lhakar, I want to share with you my recent activities for Tibet. On Monday, January 30, 2012, I met with UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne alongside representatives of the… Continue reading
Guest Post by Ngawang Choephel.
