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’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
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
[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
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
Hey all, A friend recently messaged me to ask about Lhakar. He had some questions regarding what it was and how it started. While in conversation, some interesting questions came up. I’ve decided… Continue reading
Everything’s made in China, everything. So why even bother trying to buy ethically, right? Even TOMS, which is supposed to be an ethical shoe company, produces their shoes in China. What’s a Tibetan… Continue reading
What girl doesn’t want flowers, chocolates, and love notes from her love…in Tibetan? I was totally surprised that Tashi had attempted to write me a note in Tibetan. Yes, he refers himself to me… Continue reading
So, it might seem like I’m cheating by posting what our SFT HQ interns are doing for Lhakar – but I’m really not. We (SFT HQ) have been lucky to have two amazing… Continue reading
Amalas (Tib: Mothers) know best, and that proved true once again today. With so many other things going on right now, I was at a loss as to what to post for my… Continue reading
Hey people, this is just a quick status update. I am currently at Womad Festival representing Tibet and Students for a free Tibet, UK (SFT UK) for one week. I am low on… Continue reading
